i am not crazy

[nsaids_nurse420]

i work on the med/surg unit and sometimes get floated to other units. today was one of those days. the staffing said to go to another unit. i get to the other unit, and the staffing reads beside my name 15-19. at 1840, i ask the head nursing supervisor if they wanted me to finish passing meds and doing treatments for the night, or just leave at 1900. the nursing supervisor tells me to just leave. the charge nurse is sitting beside me and hears the whole conversation. so at 1850 i begin giving report on my patients to the charge, then we count out narcotics. i went back to the med/surg unit where my locker is and put my things away for the day and clocked out a little after 1900. at 1940, i get a phone call from the next supervisor on duty, stating that i was supposed to be working another unit now, and why did i go home? i told the supervisor that the previous supervisor told me to leave, so i picked up my child and was now at home. the supervisor tells me that the previous supervisor was still in the building and that i was told to go to the other unit to work. at no time did the previous supervisor tell me to go to another unit. i asked in ample amount of time what my assignment was supposed to be for the night. i was told not to finish my med pass or treatments and was told to leave at 1900. i left and went home. i think they made a staffing mistake and are trying to lie to get out of it.. don't know what to do. afraid they will charge me with abandonment, even though the nursing supervisor in charge told me to leave at 1900.

[nsaids_nurse420]

the supervisors do this all the time. they float us over to that unit, then send us home at 1900. we get sent home early all the time. i've even came into work, and they have sent me home from the get go.. usually on that unit, the second nurse does go home, then the other nurse runs the other unit until 2300 by her or him self. sometimes they have a 12 hour float come in. i am just clarifying that i was given the instructions to leave. that's exactly what i did. i was told by a reliable source that the supervisor screwed staffing up and was trying to cover it up after the fact. the point is that i personally spoke with the supervisor face to face. he told me just to leave. he did not tell me to go to another unit. it was not posted on the staffing, and that's why i asked what i was supposed to be doing. maybe the supervisor needs to be more clear before he tells a nurse to just leave.

[wooh, BSN, RN]

I think you were told to go home and the person that screwed up is trying to blame you.

At an old job, there was one house supe (they did staffing for the m/s floors) that was KNOWN for claiming they tried to call you and you didn't call them back. I made sure the only phone number they had was my cell, that way I could pull out my phone and say, "Strange, I don't have any missed calls, what time did you call? And would have my phone as proof that she didn't call. (She stopped claiming she'd called and I didn't call her back after that!)

I'd have gone home and not come back too. They float you, they need to tell you where you're off to next.

[canesdukegirl, BSN, RN]

I think that you did the right thing. You even went back to your own unit to clock out. Don't you think at that point if you were supposed to be staffing on your own unit, that they would have said something to you at that point? I am calling BS on the sup.

[peggynurse]

LIVE AND LEARN. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HEARD. PERIOD. YOU CAN'T DO MUCH ABOUT IT SINCE YOU GOT YOUR CHILD. TO SUCK UP, YOU COULD OF SAID I WILL FIND A BABYSITTER AND BE BACK. THEY WOULD HAVE PROBABLY SAID ...NO THAT'S OK.

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

the supervisors do this all the time. they float us over to that unit, then send us home at 1900. we get sent home early all the time. i've even came into work, and they have sent me home from the get go.. usually on that unit, the second nurse does go home, then the other nurse runs the other unit until 2300 by her or him self. sometimes they have a 12 hour float come in. i am just clarifying that i was given the instructions to leave. that's exactly what i did. i was told by a reliable source that the supervisor screwed staffing up and was trying to cover it up after the fact. the point is that i personally spoke with the supervisor face to face. he told me just to leave. he did not tell me to go to another unit. it was not posted on the staffing, and that's why i asked what i was supposed to be doing. maybe the supervisor needs to be more clear before he tells a nurse to just leave.

Wow. Can I come to work with you, haha? I've been sent home ONCE in four years, and it was right before Christmas so we were ridiculously overstaffed with a very low census. Any time we are pulled for four hours we either stay on that floor for our entire shift or come back to our home floor to finish the shift.