Early one morning recently, I was on the way to my PRN job on a behavioral health unit. I was literally in my car, and it was 30 min before the shift was to start. I got a text telling me I'd been canceled. Not even the courtesy of a phone call. At this facility, if an RN calls in, it can't be any later than 0430 for dayshift or 1630 for night shift. If I'd have called in with a half hour's notice, I'd have been written up, or worse. I was livid. This comes on the heels of asking to work just Sats and Suns and being told ''we don't allow nurses to do that,'' when our unit had TWO nurses with that exact schedule. I complained to HR but they weren't helpful at all. So I found a job at another hospital in town, but stayed on PRN at the other place...until they canceled me with 30 min notice. I felt that was rude and inconsiderate and told them so, and I also said it was the culmination of months of frustration with their shoddy way of doing things. I am 58 and while I realize no perfect job exists anywhere, I also refuse to be treated with a glaring double standard and total disregard for courtesy.
