Float Pool for the O.R...

Hey all,

Does anyone know of any float pools in the O.R? If so, can you tell me about them, how it works and whether or not it's worked out for your workplace and your colleagues?

For example, the hospital you work for bought out another hospital. To help ease the staffing shortage, a float pool is created where nurses in one OR go work in the other OR for extra shifts, etc....

I'm asking because for the past two weeks we've had a nurse from partner hospital do some shifts for us....we are so short it's ridiculous. Today, we had two more nurses from that same hospital. So there was talk that there'd be a float pool going on, although it's quite obvious this float pool would consist of THEIR nurses coming over here to work. They don't have a problem with staffing, it's us with the problem.

Besides, if we went there they'd have to train us in Hearts and Transplant since we don't do them.

we do not have or use pool nurses, we have two per diem nurses, one retired, and one on extended maternity leave. Some time our part timers pick up an extra day

I work full-time at one hospital and did some morning part-time at another hospital across town. The good thing was both hospitals are owned by the same conglomerate, so when i clock in at am hospital it is considered all overtime because at the end of the day I usually have 14 hours in between both places. I am considered a "shared" employee. Mike