Working other job description

renerian, BSN, RN · Feb 20, 2005

All the time. Only once did my pay get descreased. I would not have stayed otherwise.

Your helping out so it would not be ethical to smack you with a pay cut. Make sense?

renerian

rstewart · Feb 20, 2005

Your helping out so it would not be ethical to smack you with a pay cut. Make sense?
renerian

Well besides that, working as a CNA when you are an LPN is not really an option. Yes, you can be assigned CNA duties, but you are responsible for performing as an LPN regardless of your assignment.

chadash · Feb 20, 2005

I don't know how to post an question, so could I ask this here?

I am working at night as a home health aide. This involves intermittent caths through the night. The patient wants to pay me less than the day time aide. Is that typical?

(I cared for her in the past, and she taught me to cath "as a friend of the familly".) She is an MD.

I asked for the same as the day shift girl, and she was a bit put out. Was'nt sure if I was out of line. (12.50/hour)

KaroSnowQueen, RN · Feb 20, 2005

Paying you less than day shift is YES INDEED OUT OF LINE!!!

And an MD at that!!!!!

Hold on for what they should pay you.

pediatriclpn · Feb 20, 2005

One subacute place I worked agency at didn't have enough aides, they would have agency book you as an LPN, and when you got there, they told you that they were now doing "Team Nursing", and that you would be doing direct care, and all the assessments for that team. Another nurse was med nurse, and another was treatment nurse. Regular staff was always med and tx nurse, because "they knew the patients the best". But they never did the assessments! Not only did I have CNA duties for 10 to 12 patients, new out of hospital post surgery, but not able to go home, but I had all the assessments to do, and the tx nurses would leave the tx's for me to do since, "you are a nurse, and you are washing them, so you can do them" Didn't do that agency job much. Learned fast.

Fiona59 · Feb 21, 2005

Nights usually earn more than day shifts because of shift differential -- usually at least $0.75 EXTRA per hour.

Did work an NA shift once. Got paid my LPN rate and did only aide work.

Bottom line is they need the help, they pay for it.

allnurses Guide · Feb 21, 2005

I've done the unit secretary job, at my RN time and a half plus shift plus bonus for being called in. You are held to your level of training no matter what your "job description" is, for example: noting something wrong that an LPN would know but an aide may not, you are responsible for taking some action to correct the wrong even if you are working as an aide.

On the other hand, last week we were short a secretary, and I was both charge AND secretary, with no extra pay.

NurseFirst · Feb 21, 2005

I've done the unit secretary job, at my RN time and a half plus shift plus bonus for being called in. You are held to your level of training no matter what your "job description" is, for example: noting something wrong that an LPN would know but an aide may not, you are responsible for taking some action to correct the wrong even if you are working as an aide.
On the other hand, last week we were short a secretary, and I was both charge AND secretary, with no extra pay.

Nurses who enter Stanford's/Foothill College's Physician Assistant Program are awarded both a PA and NP certificate. However, if this person is hired as a PA, their scope of practice is that of a PA; if they are hired as an NP, then their scope of practice is an NP.

I can see where your assessment skills should be commensurate with your training, no matter what you are doing--but what you can do in that position is still limited to the job description, is my understanding...

But we should have any number of folks who are LVN/LPNs who then trained as RNs and may not have immediately gotten a job as an RN. When I was in the hospital a few years ago there was an LVN taking care of me who had just passed her boards, but another RN came in and did the IV push...

Just some thoughts...

NurseFirst

NurseFirst · Feb 21, 2005

Paying you less than day shift is YES INDEED OUT OF LINE!!!
And an MD at that!!!!!
Hold on for what they should pay you.

Seriously. You should ask her if she got paid less when she worked at night.

When I was a paramedic I would frequently work 24s. Did I get to sleep while on the job? Yep. Did I get paid? Yep.

I worked in an emergency room for 4 1/2 years; the docs all would sleep at night in their "call" room--and get paid for all the hours they were there.

NurseFirst

allnurses Guide · Feb 22, 2005

I was thinking of the trauma conferences I've gone to: if we stop at a roadside accident, we are held to a higher standard than the average layman who might stop. Same with BLS, lay vs. healthcare worker. Yes you work to your job description, but if anything goes wrong, they look at what you should know.