covid liaison compensation?

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Hi all- 

Our school district has chosen 2 nurses to be the COVID liaisons, split up by elementary and secondary- we work directly with the our department of health and our VERY busy.  We have heard some neighboring districts are paying their liaisons extra (similiar to a lump sum when you coach a team). Has anyone else heard this or in this situation? We want to ask for compensation but not sure how to ball park our price and would love to hear if anyone else is in this situation. THANKS!! 

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Specializes in ICU/community health/school nursing.

Part of the duties as assigned here....But I would start asking what coaches' stipends are, paying attention to the all-year or most-of-the-year athletic stipends.

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I'm my school's COVID liaison and it comes with no extra pay unfortunately.  

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Specializes in School Nursing.

Welcome to the forum!

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

Ours do not, as it is expected to occur during work hours. We are not liason-ing outside of our contracted  hours, therefore no compensation. If it was expected to occur outside of contracted hours, like coaching a team/club, then absolutely. (And if it wasn't offered in that scenario, I'm sure the union would love to back us up on it)

 

 

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1 hour ago, LikeTheDeadSea said:

Welcome to the forum!

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

Ours do not, as it is expected to occur during work hours. We are not liason-ing outside of our contracted  hours, therefore no compensation. If it was expected to occur outside of contracted hours, like coaching a team/club, then absolutely. (And if it wasn't offered in that scenario, I'm sure the union would love to back us up on it)

 

 

If only I belonged to the union....they don't want us

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59 minutes ago, NutmeggeRN said:

If only I belonged to the union....they don't want us

Most of the districts in the Philadelphia region have 2 unions - professional and paraprofessional.  CSNs are part of professional staff, non-CSN nurses are in the paraprofessional unions.

Blows my mind when I hear unions not wanting school district employees in them.

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20 hours ago, LikeTheDeadSea said:

Most of the districts in the Philadelphia region have 2 unions - professional and paraprofessional.  CSNs are part of professional staff, non-CSN nurses are in the paraprofessional unions.

Blows my mind when I hear unions not wanting school district employees in them.

Me too...we are a very small district.

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On 11/23/2020 at 9:41 AM, LikeTheDeadSea said:

If it was expected to occur outside of contracted hours, like coaching a team/club, then absolutely. (And if it wasn't offered in that scenario, I'm sure the union would love to back us up on it)

This is what is happening with us right now.  The admin is under the impression that the nurses should be available "at any time" when there is a positive case.  I am arguing that that is the equivalent of being on call and there needs to be compensation for that, and not all nurses are in a position to be available at the drop of a hat.  We are getting calls from the principals on weekends when the BOH lets them know about + cases and they are calling the nurses expecting them to contact trace ?

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4 hours ago, MHDNURSE said:

This is what is happening with us right now.  The admin is under the impression that the nurses should be available "at any time" when there is a positive case.  I am arguing that that is the equivalent of being on call and there needs to be compensation for that, and not all nurses are in a position to be available at the drop of a hat.  We are getting calls from the principals on weekends when the BOH lets them know about + cases and they are calling the nurses expecting them to contact trace ?

Your local BOH is actually contacting your school? Wow, I wish that was happening on my end. I'm the one calling them - happened this past weekend.

I don't mind working the extra hours in general - I'm getting acknowledged for the hard work and know that I will get rewarded once we can cross some type of hurdle. But I'm just exhausted. Right now I'm setting up a weekly surveillance testing program for the kids and staff that we will have in person and getting all the paperwork from families/communicating to them has been a beast and I'm working 12 hour days. It will be much better once it fully launches, I know. But launching it the day after Thanksgiving break means I will be working from home a lot more than usual this Thanksgiving break...

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Specializes in kids.

Personally, I am always wary of small subset of taxpayers in my town, who may well call for layoffs if we go remote for any length of time. I feel very secure 9/10 days...and then I get  concerned. They are a very vocal coalition and even our school board is not fully in support of our system. ?

So I will do what it takes to make sure they know what  valuable assets we are. Even if it means after contracted time. Not everyone agrees, and that's OK too.

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On 11/24/2020 at 3:17 PM, JenTheSchoolRN said:

Your local BOH is actually contacting your school? Wow, I wish that was happening on my end. I'm the one calling them - happened this past weekend.

I don't mind working the extra hours in general - I'm getting acknowledged for the hard work and know that I will get rewarded once we can cross some type of hurdle. But I'm just exhausted. Right now I'm setting up a weekly surveillance testing program for the kids and staff that we will have in person and getting all the paperwork from families/communicating to them has been a beast and I'm working 12 hour days. It will be much better once it fully launches, I know. But launching it the day after Thanksgiving break means I will be working from home a lot more than usual this Thanksgiving break...

We are very lucky that we have a great relationship with our local BOH, but we are also much smaller than your district which I think helps.  We are in the process of starting weekly surveillance testing here as well.  Looking into a few different options.  Curious which company/test you guys are using.  We keep going back and forth between two options.  

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