On Call pay???

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How do you get paid for on call? Do you get paid hourly/per visit or a bonus and how much. Our Adm. will be reducing our call out pay so we need to know how others are paid.

Specializes in Hemodialysis, Home Health.
Where I work we do get paid what the hospital nurses do and yes I think you all should. It is a shame that HH/Hospice nurses are treated like the red headed step child. I work for a hospital that requires membership to the union and it sure helps with pay. We get $4.50/hour to carry the pager and 1.5 our regular hourly wage if we are called out. We are garunteed 2 hrs and get milage. I'll bet none of the hospital nurses are expected to get up at 2am, drive 40 miles, take care of the pt and then work a full shift the next day. We desrerve that pay!

WOW... that's great. I have to agree, though.. we in HH do get the short end of the stick when it comes to being on call. :o

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Specializes in Home health, Ortho.

We do call a couple different ways, sometimes we do a weekend- Fri 5pm till Mon at 8am and during the week (5p to 8a). The weekend has just recently changed, we get $5/hour plus per diem rate for each visit we do and during the week it is $2/hour plus per diem rate- if there are 2 of us (there's supposed to be 2 of us) and $4/hour if we are the only one on call.

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On-call pay used to be 75/day for weekdays and 250 for the entire weekend. NOW that we are owned by Amedisys- its dropped significantly.

$20/day, weekday or weekend.

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Interesting that I've run across this topic. We are salaried. We use to rotate call for nearly 300 clients. Call started on Friday and ended the following Friday. Never being a salaried employee before I had no idea I wouldn't be compensated for being on call. Well, if that wasn't enough, last week they decided to put us on call Mon - Fri for our own clients, which for me is 49, plus rotating weekends to cover everyones clients, which is 300. I'm feeling overwhelmed just thinking about it. This means when our weekend rotation rolls around, we will be on call 12 consecutive days with NO compensation. I have a husband and four beautiful grandchildren. Not only does working for free bother me, I fear quality time with my family will come to a halt. This is crazy. Not sure I can do this.

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Specializes in LTC, Med-Surg, Home Health.

My agency pays nothing extra for on-call, unless you actually get called. Then you get a visit rate.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.

I take call for a week at a time, 5:00 pm to 8:00 AM Monday-Friday, then 5:00 pm Friday to 8:00 am Monday. I'm paid $100 for carrying the phone and key; it breaks down to 85 cents per hour. If I actually get a call, it's $75 for a SOC and $50 for a visit.

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Interesting that I've run across this topic. We are salaried. We use to rotate call for nearly 300 clients. Call started on Friday and ended the following Friday. Never being a salaried employee before I had no idea I wouldn't be compensated for being on call. Well, if that wasn't enough, last week they decided to put us on call Mon - Fri for our own clients, which for me is 49, plus rotating weekends to cover everyones clients, which is 300. I'm feeling overwhelmed just thinking about it. This means when our weekend rotation rolls around, we will be on call 12 consecutive days with NO compensation. I have a husband and four beautiful grandchildren. Not only does working for free bother me, I fear quality time with my family will come to a halt. This is crazy. Not sure I can do this.

I read your post and decided I couldn't do it.

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