On my unit, we are required to be on call two 12-hr shifts per month. The pay is about $2 per hour for us to be available for 12 hours.
Tonight, we can get 6 patients before I would be called in, and that many admissions rarely happens on nights in my ICU. But why not put me on call since its only costing the hospital about $24?
I feel like my time is not valued at $2 per hour. Also, if on-call pay was increased to, for example, $5 per hour, then perhaps mngmt would not be so quick to put 5 people on call every night!
Im in OR. I made $3/hr at my last place. $2/hr at my current place. The place im starting in july pays $15/hr. All of them pay time and a half when called in. Last pay period I had 208 hours of call. I take CVOR Call and that's is pretty typical for me.... 150-200 hours per pay period.
Our on-call pay was eliminated. Big fat goose egg. Getting recalled is straight pay. One time, I was cancelled for four hours, then again for four hours, then again. The entire shift, waiting around to be called in for nothing. The next time I was cancelled for the second four hours, I told them to make a decision RIGHT NOW because I wasn't having my day tied up for free. They ended up having me come in for 8 hours. Trying to cancel x 3 was total ********.
I work in a smaller homecare agency and being on-call stinks because one single nurse will be responsible for the entire agency even unrelated nursing things such as when is my PC worker coming? I don't want PT to visit tomorrow. And then of course referrals. It can become a ton of work and is only 2/hr
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Im in OR. I made $3/hr at my last place. $2/hr at my current place. The place im starting in july pays $15/hr. All of them pay time and a half when called in. Last pay period I had 208 hours of call. I take CVOR Call and that's is pretty typical for me.... 150-200 hours per pay period.