Triage differential pay?

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Does any body get Triage differential pay at your hospital? I'm pushing to have at least $1.50 on top of our hourly rate for Triage. If anybody knows anything about this issue I will appreciate your input.

Thanks. Carlos.RN.CEN.MICN

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma.

Our triage nurse are paid charge nurse pay, I believe it's 1.25 more an hour. The rational is that they are making independant decisions- no doc in triage.

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No triage diff where I work. Interesting thought though ...

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No differential pay here

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at our facility we have a triage/charge nurse differential that compares to the differential that the "charge" nurses on the floor receive

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Specializes in Cardiac/Vascular & Healing Touch.

no diff here.

one place I worked (left there because I felt it was unsafe), let nurses from other depts with NO ED experience work triage because they were on "light duty"!!!!!! I swear when I worked triage, it was no light duty from the swooning dehydrated people, the wiggling babies needing rectal temps, they obese people with weakness in a wheelchair....I did lots of pushin', pullin, draggin' & sprints to get not breathing babies breathing again!!!! Unreal. Of course the ED manager had never worked in or ran an ED before either...can we say clueless??????:devil:

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I'd never heard of a differential for Triage, but it makes sense. At our ER, some nurses love triage, others dread it. I am among those that like it, but would not want to do it exclusively.

Recently, our admin has decided that 4 hours at triage was enough, and then the nurse should be rotated to another area. I guess they had received some complaints from patients/family that the nurses seemed stressed out and were short with people.

It IS a hotseat at times!

Bob

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I wish we could get a diff. for triage!! I hate it...maybe I wouldn't mind it as much if we got paid more. In our ER we have to rotate through it, everyone gets trained for it at a year experience...and its up to the charge who goes out there each night...maybe instead of all dreading it wed all volunteer!

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Specializes in Emergency Room/corrections.

nope. No diff here. Only our charge nurses get a diff (other than the off shift diff) and we get $1.25/hr for charge pay.

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no diff for triage, but charge nurse gets about $1.50 depending on years of nursing seniority.

It's agreat idea. Very few like it where I work.

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