The other thread got me to thinking....
We are looking at floating related to age. Currently if you are 55 or over with 10 consecutive years you are exempt from floating. [this also exempts you from call]
Many older nurses transfer to our rehab unit because "most" of the pts are more stable, they spend half the day with PT etc. So most of the rehab nurse do not float. But, we have a couple 60+ nurses that do not fit this criteria.
Is it fair to make the 2 or 3 other nurses float all the time, or do we exempt the whole unit from floating? We are going back to see how many nurses {hospital wide} we have over 60 to see if exempting all of them from floating is feasible.
It's very tricky trying to show appreciation to our older nurses without causing hard feelings from thsoe that will continue to float.
Any thought????