Call Schedule

When I was a nurse manager my "on call" schedule was pretty much handled like the regular schedule. Everyone was assigned and scheduled for "on call" time. It was then up to the nurses themselves to swap on call time with each other. If someone doesn't take the responsiblity to make out the initial scheduling there will be anarchy among the staff.

I didn't check before posting this, but haven't you posted before about scheduling problems on your unit? Who is actually scheduling, one person or all of you on the staff together? One person has to ultimately decide on whether the schedule is fair or not. If no one is doing that then there is an awful chaotic situation going on where you are. If your unit is the only one having this kind of disorganization over the scheduling and it is causing so much aggression among you, I think someone needs to (1) first, tell your nursing manager about the problems this is causing, and then (2) go to the administrator who supervises your nurse manager and let that person know what is happening among the staff nurses on your unit based on what your manager has told you to do. The reason I'm suggesting these things is because it sounds like your manager is not properly managing her duty of staffing. It sounds like she's delated the task of staffing to her nursing staff without providing direction on how to do it properly and assessing how it's going. Makes me think that she doesn't know a lot about the fine details of staffing herself.