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Low census vs. on call????

:uhoh3: Anyone else experience this? Shift is 7p-7a. I get a low census phone call this evening "till 11p". So how is that not on call status? I can't have a margarita with dinner! I still have to have a phone on me so they can determine my status beyond 11! All this means to me is I'm on the schedule till 7a and I can't do anything until then and I'm not going to get paid time and a half if that changes like a person on call would get. Low census to me should mean for your whole shift otherwise it's just on call, right? Lastly, I can't really say no to whatever change is made beyond 11 because after all I'm on the schedule till 7a. Granted I don't have big plans but I'd really like to just have the shift off tonight and not get the dumb wake your bum up phone call at 11 to tell me that they aren't going to call and wake my bum up anymore throughout the night. I should get paid for my hassle as an on call nurse if it ain't the whole night! How does your hospital do it?
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    Either we get called off or we don't. Call time gets paid @ $16/hr.

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    Well, I guess it is facility/administration protocol. I have heard of some places that once they put out a schedule, that is it... no changes (even if census gets to be excessively high/low). Other places they have incentives to be on call, an example (a coworker had left for an offer like this) if you get called in Mon-Thurs=it is time and half, Fri-Sat= Time and half, plus paid breaks and 10$ meal paid, and if it is on Sun= 2x time, paid breaks and meal up to 20$, if you where not called in = nothing.

    And I have seen a place (I decided not to take this job), that I was on call every other week, and if I was called in I was expected to be there and no incentives where given... I told them unless there was an incentive I wasn't doing it, and they told me no, so I told them to find another aide (hard, given that place had just had over half the crew walk out.)

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