Canceled up to 3-4 times a WEEK. What do?!

[murseBSN]

I'm a recent graduate, fortunate enough to land a job right away and have been in a community hospital ICU for just over a year now. The problem is I've been cut literally 3-4 times a week and it's impossible for me to really get my life started with such inconsistent income. I was offered another ICU job but turned it down as they also cancel by seniority.

What my boss is doing to remedy the situation? Hiring another person for our shift (med-surg transfer) with more experience than me so I'd be bumped down even further.

Sorry if I'm ranting... just difficult because I'm saving for a wedding and for a house, but my last paycheck was literally ZILCH, NADA, ZERO, NOTHING for 2 weeks, I was canceled straight for two weeks.

[bankssarn]

Union facility--we get called off on a turn basis. We also get mandatory overtime on a turn basis. It works, usually.

This is how it is with my mom. She works in the NICU and sometimes they're downstaffing left and right, and other times they enforce mandatory overtime and call time.

[Katie71275]

That stinks! We have a book we sign out in. We just changed hand from state to private..When state, you'd get pulled to another unit, but never called off. Now that it's private, some call offs are happening, but still more being pulled to another unit. However, b/c I'm a new nurse, if the pulling unit NEEDS and RN then it's almost always me b/c the more exp nurse is going to be charging, and they want an RN not LPN.