Ahhhhhhhhhh Cancelled AGAIN!!!!

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

This is so irritating. This is the only shift I picked up this week for overtime and I am cancelled. I was cancelled last week. To top it off, there isn't any other overtime available. Agency per diem work is looking more and more appealing.

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Specializes in Pulmonary, MICU.

I'm with you on this one. Since getting off orientation a few weeks ago, every OT shift I have picked up I have been put "on call." Which I get paid for, but still...it ruins a night to get put on call and not actually get my 1.5x pay. >.

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That is why we are seeing alot of acute care nurses picking up shifts at our LTC. We never cancel,LOL

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

I did put in an application for a contingent ICU position at a hospital near me. I also put an application in at an agency. Didn't hear back yet. I need the extra money though as I am going on leave at the end of May and will be off work for a month.

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When ya wanta be cancelled yer not....When ya don't wanna be yer are...:flmngmd:

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

True.

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Specializes in ob/gyn med /surg.

well if this swine flu takes hold , you will never get called off... ths hospitals are going to be full of pt's needing hydration and breathing treatments ectra....

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Look at it this way, isn't it nice to be fully staffed for a change?

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Specializes in ED, ICU, MS/MT, PCU, CM, House Sup, Frontline mgr.
Look at it this way, isn't it nice to be fully staffed for a change?

You are joking, right? This is sarcasm right? I know you to be an experienced nurse so this must be a joke. We work short. We are never fully staffed and nurses still get called off or floated despite our need... My place of work justifies this by changing the acuity/staffing ratio for census. Apparently we can take up to six patients now. :up:

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Specializes in ob/gyn med /surg.

we always have 6 patients on med/surg and i have 4 when i work OB. which is actually good because we were staffed to have 8 patients on day shift about 3 years ago...... 6 patients is easy compared to the 8 , so we are always staffed nicely. sometimes we have over abundance of nurses and have to send people home( which i love).

to me having 6 patients is fully staffed. we each have 6 patients and 3 CNA's for 35 patients. i love our staffing now !! finally a decent grid !! yeah !!

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

We are actually overstaffed so I'm not really surprised that I was cancelled. I just need the money right now. I put in an application to work contingent in the ICU at another hospital. I applied to an agency. I don't know. Have to wait and see I guess.

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Specializes in ED, ICU, MS/MT, PCU, CM, House Sup, Frontline mgr.

to me having 6 patients is fully staffed. we each have 6 patients and 3 cna's for 35 patients. i love our staffing now !! finally a decent grid !! yeah !!

we do not have cnas sometimes... management justifies this by stating that nurses can perform primary care even with post cabg patients. i think ultimately when i am more experienced i will see what you more experienced nurses are talking about... (i am not being sarcastic). if we have a cna it is 1. on a good shift we may be blessed with 1 cna who also acts as a unit clerk or 1 cna who gets help during particular parts of the night from another floor. for now i think this 6-patient-primary-care thing is crazy.

btw, not to sound like a know-it-all because i am far from it!!! however, ob does not compare to any other floor unless it is high acuity. no offense... i value your experience especially since you worked outside of ob, but i worked on an ob floor as a tech and as a nurse extern… healthy patients are healthy patients.

with a healthy patient you can tell her to get up and take a shower. if she wants to behave like princesses you can encourage them by pulling their bottoms out of bed and walking them to the shower. it is much harder with 300 pound post cabg elderly men/women who cadio-vert out of normal sinus rhythm because he/she changed positions and is now sitting up on the side of his/her bed. not to mention he/she is weak and may not be able to stand his/her own weight do to co-morbidities.

the thing that gets me through my tough shifts is positive thinking…. i am positive i will know what you more experienced nurses know and learn how to move as quickly some day!!!

-new grad rn (grateful to be employed)

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