IR call pay

[drewba]

We are an evolving IR department in a moderately sized hospital and will be negotiating a fair and equitable plan for on-call pay. I would appreciate any input as to what the industry standard is for on-call pay. I am already aware of one hospital within the vicinity that pays their nurses 2 hours straight pay for every eight hours of scheduled on-call time whether or not it falls on a weekend. What do you do?

Drewba

[dianah, ASN]

It's been three years since I was on call, but ours (280-bed county facility) was:

** A minimum rate for carrying the pager (for example, $3.50 an hour)

** Two hours' pay for getting called in every time you got called in (even if you were paged while you were on your way in, and the case got cancelled)

** Time and a half for the first four hours, from the time you arrived at the hospital to the time you left after the case.

** Double-time for any time worked over and above the first four hours.

Hope that helps. I like the phrase "fair and equitable." :D

[kathy54]

Pitiful, but our call pay has just been increased to 1.50 per hour for carying the pager. We also get two hours of pay if we are there 10 min. or 1/2 hr. If we have worked 40 hrs. that week we are paid double time.

[Lanurse0417]

I am a nurse in radiology at a moderate sized hospital. I guess there are about 200 beds or so. We get paid $3 an hour for call pay, and then time and a half for call back. We get the first hour automatically when we clock in whether or not we are there for an hour(makes picc lines a breeze). There are only two of us(nurses) in the department so we alternate call 7 days on and 7 days off. Hope this helps.....