Find our own time off coverage?

I work in a doctor's office that is owned by a company that owns several hospitals and 100s of doctor offices in my area.

We were told last week that from now on, we are not to submit a request for time off until we have already found coverage for ourselves. It used to be scheduled by the supervisor who would sometimes get help from one of the other neurology offices (there are 3).

They don't utilize the float pool (the float nurses travel to all the different offices to fill in for vacations, etc.) We were told it was too much trouble to get someone from another office to come to our office.

There are 5 practitioners (doctors and NPs) and 5 nurses in just our office. It's a neurology office. How am I supposed to find someone else if no one in my office can do it? Do I have time? -- No.

I'm going to apply for a transfer to the float pool so I don't have to worry about getting my own coverage -- I'll be the coverage.

This office has a lot of problems and is short staffed and overworks a couple of us to the point we worry about our license.

So, I'm going to be outta there asap. It will take about 6 months or more to transfer.

Just wanted to vent and get opinions. Anyone else have to find their own coverage for time off?