Call off guidelines

[NicuGal, MSN, RN]

1. OT for the day

2. ET for the day

3. Retired PRN (we have a retired RN program)

4. PRN

If after all that we still have extras we go by a list we keep with cancel dates written in it.

If no one wants cancelled then we mandatory cancel by least senior, but we keep dates on that and only cancel in 4 hour blocks unles the person opts to take the whole shift.

[MKS8806]

I appreciate all the responses!! For those of you that use the days methods - do you every have a problem with someone saying they have more hours than someone else? Because, sometimes you may not get called off the full shift, or you get called back in....so you get, say, 5 hours of call off time. The next person gets a full 12 hours of call off time. Does that ever seem to be a problem?

Im not sure I understood correctly, any ideas about preceptors? Do you call off the preceptor to a newbie, or are they "safe" until the next round? We obviously do not call off newbies.

[Aurora77]

Our policy:

1. Those who would be on OT get called off first.

2. PRNs next

3. FT/PT people based on last time called off (the person it's been the longest for gets called off first).

Unofficially, if someone wants to be first on call and the charge knows it, she'll try to help out that person. We're a small unit, so it seems to be effective.

[Mandychelle79, ASN, RN]

I appreciate all the responses!! For those of you that use the days methods - do you every have a problem with someone saying they have more hours than someone else? Because, sometimes you may not get called off the full shift, or you get called back in....so you get, say, 5 hours of call off time. The next person gets a full 12 hours of call off time. Does that ever seem to be a problem?

Im not sure I understood correctly, any ideas about preceptors? Do you call off the preceptor to a newbie, or are they "safe" until the next round? We obviously do not call off newbies.

It is usually in 4 hour increments, but if you are volunteering to stay home they normally stay the whole day. Anything under 4 hours does not count as a staff down day ( unless you work an odd shift like a 10 hour one, then if you are staffed down the first 2 hours that counts)