Salary Differential for Speciality Units

Nurses General Nursing

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Specializes in Rehab, ICU, Case Management.

Are there any hospitals out there paying a differential or higher rate of pay for nurses working in the specialiy units, i.e. ICU, CCU, L&D, OR, etc?

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Specializes in CVICU, MICU, CCRN-CSC.

Not mine.

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

I don't think pay is different for any unit that you work on. The shift diffs are the same for everyone. Base pay may be different depending on how much experience you have.

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Some do, some don't. The last place I worked offered an extra dollar per hour for all the ICUs. Another placed offered $0.75/hr for PACU and OR, but no other units got anything extra. It just depends on the whims of hospital administration (and often, on what units they chronically can't keep staff).

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We used to get paid a differential for heme/onc, because it was considered a critical/specialized unit, but they soon took that away. One of the pluses in traveling is that often they do pay more for specialties ;)

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Hi Roady

Yes, a few years ago when we were short staff, our hospital gave everyone in the OR (RNs & Techs) , $1.00 /hour extra just for working in the OR.:yeah:

Snowshooz

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Specializes in Emergency Dept, M/S.

I know we get an extra $1.10/hr in our ED, but not sure about the other units in the hospital. I do think there are some, but not sure of their rate and which units.

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Specializes in ICU, nutrition.

Where I used to work, we got 10% above the base for critical care areas...I believe they were ER, ICU, PACU, Cath Lab, CV Short Stay and maybe OR. But no differential for BSN. Where I work now, no differential for specialty area but $0.50 for BSN.

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Specializes in Surgical Services.

We get a $1 for OR and $ for BSN

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As you can see, things vary greatly by location. Most facilities are now going only by years of experience, and not by specialty. Also depends if union facility or not.

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Specializes in ICU, ER, EP,.

$1.10 per hour. $1500 every six months

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Specializes in SICU, EMS, Home Health, School Nursing.

There is no additional pay for working a critical care unit at my hospital. They do pay for us to take required critical care classes, ACLS, TNCC, etc. The classes are free and we get payed by the hour while taking them as long as they are required for our job.

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