Straight weekend call

dusky1228 · Aug 5, 2008

Hi,
Anyone have experience in working straight weekend call only....Fri at 5p until Mon at 8a? I am not sure if it is salary or per diem.
They are offering this position at our office and was just wondering if other companies do this and what kind of pay should be expected for that type of shift? I am sure that there would be scheduled visits on Sat.:loveya:

Is this a hospital position or a home care position? Pay would vary. Some of our on-call home care people get $7.5/hour for call, plus a visit rate if they get called out-those are the overnight nurses, who are prone to being called out at 3 am. I did on-call for an IV Therapy team for an agency, and I got $ 4.50/hour plus $25 /1 hour or less visit and $ 55 for over 2 hour visit, usually for peripheral IV restarts. Some hospital nurses I know only get $ 1.50/hour on-call, and their regular rate of pay if they get called in, but they rarely if ever get called.

RNWithAHeart · Aug 5, 2008

This is Hospice (in home) call.

jeannepaul, BSN · Aug 11, 2008

I'm in Texas and this is the way it works for me. I start at 5pm friday and work until 8am mon. It is a salaried position. Since it is 63 hours, they took what I would make in a 40 hour work week, around 27.00 per hour. then they divided by 63 and came up with around 17.oo per hour, so on my pay stub it will read 126 hour at 17.00= 2142.00. Then we get paid $.45 per mile. The mileage starts from my home and ends back at my home. I usually drive 200 miles per day, but I live 30 miles out of SA.

The downside to on call is PTO is hour to hour, so if I want to take the weekend off I have to take 63 hours of PTO, which is very unfair, I'm going to try to do something about that, but probably will not succeed.

I love on call but you cannot let them push you to keep going when you are tired.

I can tell you alot more but I need to get some sleep! I have an hour left, and they have called me out this close to me being off before!

hope this helps some!

Paula

shrinky · Aug 11, 2008

At ou hospice, we have two call nurses but they also split week-day call and are salaried. So each nurse does two nights a week and every other week-end. There are no scheduled visits on the week-end, and we try not to leave any admissions for them to do. They get paid a salary no matter how many visits or calls they make. It is not the most cost effective, I suppose but it helps with retention sand overtime. We full time nurses are not keen on doing call after working all day. :yeah:

Sue Damonas, BSN · Aug 24, 2008

At ou hospice, we have two call nurses but they also split week-day call and are salaried. So each nurse does two nights a week and every other week-end. There are no scheduled visits on the week-end, and we try not to leave any admissions for them to do. They get paid a salary no matter how many visits or calls they make. It is not the most cost effective, I suppose but it helps with retention sand overtime. We full time nurses are not keen on doing call after working all day.

I sure wish our Hospice would do the same thing! We have weekday call nurses but we have to cover them for vacations, days off, etc. plus we do weekend call. We keep losing people because everyone's so burnt out.

finn11707 · Aug 25, 2008

Where I work now, we have one call RN who is 40 hour/paid 1/2 time by the hour and 1.5 time when out to visits, with benefits night call RN 9pm to 8am who has a 3 day every other weekend off---his shifts are offered up as extra $$$ to all of us when he has weekends off happen or when he is on vacation or ill. He loves his job. They say the job will not exist when he leaves it.

Where I worked before--there were several of us with set schedules---3 day or pm shifts with a run of 3-4 night shifts---night call paid 1/2 time --all calls fielded and visits, when needed, at 1.5 time. Occasionally, a scheduled emergency admission into the "Hospice House"---a gorgeous private room SNF facility which admitted short term rehab patients and hospice patients-- for 5 day 'respite' or admission for out of control symptoms until stabilized. It was a great Hospice! So organized. They worked with one pharmacy where all compounded meds were done also and medications were delivered to all Hospice patients!

GmaC13 · Aug 28, 2008

Where I work we share call. We each take call at least once weekly (5pm-8am) after working a full shift and expected to work a full shift the next day. We are paid $4.50/hour to be on call and 1.5 our hourly wage if called out. We are garunteed 2 hrs if called. If we don't have a consecutive 10 hr break our following shift is paid at 1.5. We do a full weekend every 4th weekend. This is from Friday at 5 to Monday at 8. We do have scheduled pts, admits, resumtions you name it and handle every call that comes into the office. For the 8 hrs seeing scheduled pts we are paid our regular hourly rate then the $4.50 per hour to be on call. Some weekends are great, getting paid to lounge around the house or shop. Others are killers. The pager never stops and you get so tired you are usless. We genrally hate our call policy and would love to have something new but change is very hard in our little agency.