SunflowerRN85

Thank you for this information!

Yes, I am salary. So I get paid for 40 hours a week at $32.55/hour no matter how many hours worked while on call.

Hello! I've read many articles from this website, but this is the first time I'm posting for myself. I've been a hospice RN for 3 years and a few months. I started as a rncm, then weekends on call, now I'm doing weeknights on call, 5p-8a Mon thru Thurs. I know y'all know that the actual hours worked can vary greatly from day to day. I'm just wondering if I should ask for a raise or if I'm being compensated fairly. I Googled salaries for my area, but of course it's a huge range from $28-45/hour. I live on the Gulf Coast in Mississippi and I started out at $30/hour as a rncm. I had 2.5 years RN experience, no hospice experience. I thought that was a good salary until we lost half our field staff and I was working 60 hours a week, performing hha duties for some patients, getting paid zero overtime, and I was about 7 months pregnant at that time. I know I should have asked for a raise then but even the thought of any confrontation spikes my anxiety. Anyway, now that I have plenty of experience I'm wondering if I should go ahead and ask for a raise. I get around $0.80 a year so I'm currently at $32.55/hour and I get paid for 40 hours no matter how many hours I work, and of course mileage. There may be week stretches where I'm hardly ever called out, but then there are weeks where I'm doing visits for the rncm's (which I honestly don't mind, I know they work hard during the day) plus 2 or 3 admissions (in a week, not a day) that some don't typically start until at the earliest 7 pm because of transportation after hospital discharge. Sometimes around 6 pm because family requests that time frame. Depending on many different factors, an admission could take 4-6 hours from start to finish (not including driving time). Some patients live 1-1.5 hours away from each other. Then there are the occasional PRN or death visits in the middle of the night. When I'm not expecting an admission and I'm not busy at home, I will volunteer to help with regular visits to help the day nurses, and those can take 30-60 minutes depending on what's going on and how much education they need. My problem is not helping out, I just want to know I'm being compensated fairly for my time. How are other on call nurses being compensated? How many hours are you typically working a week/night? Are you doing only emergency admissions, or is management scheduling after hours admissions to accommodate family members that want to meet after 5 pm because they worked that day? Are you helping with regular visits that cm's couldn't get to that day? Do you take PRN visits that come in after 4 pm so the cm doesn't have to work late? Sorry this is so long! Tl/Dr: on call weeknight RNs, how are you compensated and on average how many hours are you actually working? Thank you so much for any insight!!