How do you do your call schedule

[mugwump]

Where i work we do 7000 deliveries per year and we are redoing the way we do call. (we don't have a choice) i was wondering how everyone else does it and if anyone has any suggestions

[nurseshepherd]

Will you get paid to take call and how likely are you to get called in? Our RNs are required to work 2 weekends a month (4 weeks) and if we have someone who prefers to work all weekends then we can take call one or both of our required weekends. Our hospital pays 20% of our base pay and double time for call back (they are talking about reducing it to time and a half) so managers work REAL hard to staff so that doesn't happen often. We self schedule so folks can volunteer for the call hours and it has worked out pretty good. :)

[Mavrick, BSN, RN]

I work in a PACU with 5 other RN's and we share over 650 hours of call a month. We have a call request book that we sign up for 3 months in advancd with 2 first choice and 2 second choice dates. Then we take volunteers and per diems to fill in. If there are still holes we fill in starting with the lowest number of call hours already taken and so on. Most times people get their first and second choices with very few assigned call shifts.

[LaborLovinRN]

We have to take a mandatory 24 hours (split up any way you like-or 2 12 hour days) a month of call on our L&D unit. Our system works fairly well. Every month the schedule goes up along with the call schedule.

All the RN's in our dept are divided up into 3 groups by seniority. Group one with the highest seniority.

The first 3 days after the call schedule goes up are designated - Day 1 group 1 signs up, Day 2 groups 1 & 2 can sign up, and Day 3 - groups 1, 2, 3 can sign up. After day 3 - it's free game.

However, if a person out of group 1 forgets to sign up on day 1, then they have to take what is left on whatever day they sign up. The system actually works pretty well.

When we are on call, we get paid a measley $7 hour for sitting at home waiting, but if we get called in, it's time and a half for the first 8 and double time for anything after. I would say we get called in 75% of the time or more, so we always have guaranteed overtime - like it or not!

[mom2michael, MSN, RN, NP]

We are on call 12 hours per week - days are designated by need and/or schedule and is done by our scheduling person.

We are paid $3.00 now (recent raise) to be on call - 1.5x when called in (plus your call time) with a min. of 4 hour call back (even if you are there 1 hour, you get paid for 4).

I would say we are averaging about a 50% call back rate right now.

If you need a particular day off and don't want to be on call and/or work, you put in a request and she'll grant you the time off.

It's really not as bad as it seems......