Forced transfer

[imintrouble, BSN, RN]

Shortages in CC areas has lead to lots of floating between units. Some nurses float every day away from their home unit. Nobody's happy.

The newest practice is management has stopped pretending it's a float situation, and just forced the senior nurses to transfer. Whether they want to or not. Of course there's no orientation. A nurse is a nurse is a nurse after all.

I'm old enough to know there's not much you can do except quit. Or is there?

What would you do?

[OscarTheOwl]

Happened to me! Jokes on them, I actually like this floor better. They couldn't pay me to go back.

Even though the new floor is much better, the situation really ticked me off and I put out some applications and was offered another position in a different area (non-bedside).

So I was hugely pissed and they could care less.

When I turn in my notice I'll definitely give zero craps at the bind they will find themselves in trying to replace me in two weeks. :)

[Pangea Reunited, ASN, RN]

That would depend on what other options I had. If I didn't have any better ones, I'd be annoyed, but I'd stick it out.

[imintrouble, BSN, RN]

Happened to me! Jokes on them, I actually like this floor better. They couldn't pay me to go back.

Even though the new floor is much better, the situation really ticked me off and I put out some applications and was offered another position in a different area (non-bedside).

So I was hugely pissed and they could care less.

When I turn in my notice I'll definitely give zero craps at the bind they will find themselves in trying to replace me in two weeks. :)

I thought we were unique in the transfers without consent. I guess not.

You quit rather than be treated like a chair. Right now I'm still the chair, debating on what to do.

It makes no sense to me. I'm glad you found a new job, and I hope it causes your employer a lot of pain.

[imintrouble, BSN, RN]

That would depend on what other options I had. If I didn't have any better ones, I'd be annoyed, but I'd stick it out.

I'm so angry and bitter the situation is toxic. I have few options, but going to work makes me sick.

The unit I left is staffed with new nurses and they can't keep up. They move me because I'm experienced, and I don't know what I'm doing in the CC areas. It seems like a lose/lose to me.

[nursej22, MSN, RN]

Being forced to transfer blows big time, especially with no orientation.

Pardon my ignorance, what is CC?

[Fiona59]

I read it as Critical or Cardiac Care

[nutella, MSN, RN]

I worked at a hospital where floating was the norm and everybody had to float when census was low or "overstaffed". We had float list and floated by turn but there were definitely nurses who had high anxiety about floating to different floors. When one floor closed everybody got transferred permanently.

[Libby1987]

I'd probably make sure that the manager on the unit where I most wanted to stay would fight over me.

I might be agreeable to be the experienced float used to benefit the unit most in need if my compensation were adjusted. In fact I'd probably suggest just that and campaign for it. I tend to turn those situations into a mutual win.

If I were to leave, I would do it before I became bitter. I don't do anything without a glad heart, anything else breeds contempt and I don't live like that anymore.

I would never and have never been the pissed off disgruntled employee, at least not visibly, I don't wait til they say good riddance you bitter old witch. I've only left when they still liked me. I have been the bitter pissed off ex wife who stayed too long and I was so ugly about it, it's not something I ever want to repeat and for some reason I've found it easier to avoid that in my work life than my past personal life.

[imintrouble, BSN, RN]

Being forced to transfer blows big time, especially with no orientation.

Pardon my ignorance, what is CC?

CC is critical care. At least where I work. It includes ICU, ED, and the step down units.

[Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN]

No way in hades I would work in CC with no orientation. That is a sentinel event waiting to happen. As for whoever is asserting that a nurse is a nurse....call an Amber Alert because some villiage is missing their idiot.

To be clear I'm not saying most floor nurses are not capable. They are. With proper training!!

Heck I had ICU experience, and at my current job I still got critical care classes and a month of orientation.

As for your original question, personally I chose my hospital specifically for a level 1 trauma SICU. They couldn't pay me enough to work on our floors, and MICU just isn't my thing. I would possibly consider the burn unit, but that's it. My notice would be in like white on rice. It stinks because for some that's easier said than done, though.

I would contact your hospital's risk management dept, maybe your BON, and definitely your Liability Insurance for advice. I suggest those entities because of the very real public safety concerns that go with failing to train ICU RNs.

[imintrouble, BSN, RN]

I'm stuck in a place just a handful of years til retirement. Sometimes I think they just want us oldies to quit.

If that's the strategy, it's pretty darn awful.

It's hard going from the most senior and most knowledgeable in an area you like, to the lowest and dumbest in an area you don't.