How common is it to both get called in early and then get mandated to stay late on the same shift? All of the 11-7 aides, think there were 5 that night, were mandated to stay late and 4 of them had been called in early on top of that.
For the longest time, the unwritten? policy was to not mandate those who had come in early but Day shift was already scheduled four aides short and then another called in. Needless to say, not only did Days call me in early for my shift, they mandated me to stay late that morning. So I ran my butt off from 2030-0930. I love it when the residents ask why I'm still there, but we get reprimanded if we say we are running short on staff.
Our so-called staffing report hasn't been changed since last month and it's supposed to be changed daily. Says we have 24 aides on during the day, but most days I can count 18 at best, haven't seen 24 since the state came visiting. It also says we have 10 on for nights usually we have 8.
I always thought that mandations were to be used to fill in for call-ins, not because we were just scheduled short. Our schedules are made at least two weeks in advance, we have per diem staff. That's two weeks that they have to fill in the blanks. At this rate, I'm going to be burnt out on nursing before I even get to start Nursing-I next week. I'm starting to wonder if our DON is trying to run the place into the ground. Even Head Nurses on the units are starting to complain about the hours their aides have to put in.
We have two "vent certified" aides for the actual 11-7 shift, one is per diem (me) and the other is full time (my better half). While everyone is careplanned 2 assist, management refuses to schedule two aides on the vent unit. They don't even mark on the "cheat sheet" that there is a slot open, the second vent aide is always treated like a spare aide. Our RN can't help with rounds because she has her own duties ie: treatments, meds, suctioning, nightly assesments, tube feed flushes. If she helps on one set, she plays catch-up during the next set. Please tell me not all places are like this.
I just started a new job and being new to the field and all i didn't really know about mandation. I had always heard this facility was a very nice one and treated you great. All has gone good and well, i love the residents and pretty much all of my co-workers but the mandation is killing me.I asked my superviser if she would be able to work something out because i go to school full time also.Well her answer was a flat out nothing i can do for ya!Now i am being mandated all the time.Going in for 16 hours at the least and still going to school.I love the job, nursing has always been a passion but this seems to be killing me.What should i do?
I'd quit and deliver pizzas while in nursing school. You can't be 'mandated' and you can listen to tapes of lessons in transit between deliveries. It worked for me.
If it's too much for you and your bosses don't care that you're a student, it comes down to this: choose between the job or school.
Fortunately, where I work in Texas, while there is a provision for mandatory overtime, I've never seen it used. Why not? It has to be authorized by the CEO, renewed on an hourly basis, and the entire management team must show up and stay at the hospital for the duration of any declared 'mandatory overtime'.
I thought y'all had unions up there that forcused on making mandatory OT difficult for employers to force on you? You'd think your bosses would realize that mandatory OT is the reason why they are always short -staffed.
ZASHAGALKA, RN
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I'd quit and deliver pizzas while in nursing school. You can't be 'mandated' and you can listen to tapes of lessons in transit between deliveries. It worked for me.
If it's too much for you and your bosses don't care that you're a student, it comes down to this: choose between the job or school.
Fortunately, where I work in Texas, while there is a provision for mandatory overtime, I've never seen it used. Why not? It has to be authorized by the CEO, renewed on an hourly basis, and the entire management team must show up and stay at the hospital for the duration of any declared 'mandatory overtime'.
I thought y'all had unions up there that forcused on making mandatory OT difficult for employers to force on you? You'd think your bosses would realize that mandatory OT is the reason why they are always short -staffed.
~faith,
Timothy.