hour due to the number of hours she works.
"I was switched to salary and took a cut in pay," complains a hospi-
tal surgical supervisor. "Calls, emails and issues after hours gets old,"
says another. One respondent says she's not compensated for taking
on risk manager and infection control duties. Another says she's
expected to cover everything from patient care and staffing to IT and
utility work.
As hourly nursing wages continue to increase, one hospital respon-
dent says she could make just as much as a frontline nurse in surgery
with call — "especially when I look at what my hourly rate would be
for the amount of time I am expected to work as a salaried employ-
ee."
A salaried director of nursing at a surgery center who was promoted
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