Mandating, thought it was a thing of the past.

[eriksoln, BSN, RN]

My impression was, the "no mandating" went into effect early July. Am I wrong. My hospital mandated someone not too long ago. The supervisor miss-managed the available pool of staff and left one unit short while others had float nurses and assignment free charge nurses (night shift) who complained of being bored. When it was apparent something had to change, the supervisor called the short unit and informed them they'd have to "mandate" someone.

Wonder what would have happened if she had been called out on the floor and informed that mandation does not exist anymore. What if everyone basically refused?

[K98]

I believe the law lets a facility mandate if it is an "emergency" . First time I get mandated will be the last day I work as an RN at the facility that mandated me.

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

We get mandated all the time. Our scheduler's an idiot.

[CASTLEGATES]

take their job! make em pay!

My goal is to get my paws on the schedule at my next job. I am 100% certain it will be accepted since it's self scheduling! I know a cool way that works...a NM did this and it just worked perfectly! No OT (only comp time) we could take for low census or stack up for a mini vacation. It was great!

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

see dept of licensure and iinspection:

act no. 102 :prohibition of excessive overtime in health care act

act 102 faq

pdf version of act 102 power point presentation

reasonable efforts relating to unforeseeable emergent circumstance

 act 102 states that a health care facility engages in “reasonable efforts” mandating overtime under an unforeseeable emergent circumstance when it does the following:

 seeks persons who volunteer to work extra time from all available qualified staff who are working at the time of the unforeseeable emergent circumstance.

 contacts all qualified employees who have made themselves available to work extra time.

 seeks the use of per diem staff.

 seeks personnel from a contracted temporary agency when use of this staff is permitted by law or regulation.

pdf version of act 102 complaint form;

[twokidsmom,rn]

Our hospital is sending nurses home not allowing for a minute of OT the floor nurses work harder and more patients and less PTCA's. Moral is not good right now. But as we are reminded they did not lay any one off and we all have a job.

[K98]

Our hospital is sending nurses home not allowing for a minute of OT the floor nurses work harder and more patients and less PTCA's. Moral is not good right now. But as we are reminded they did not lay any one off and we all have a job.

Galley slaves had jobs too .

[eriksoln, BSN, RN]

Our hospital is sending nurses home not allowing for a minute of OT the floor nurses work harder and more patients and less PTCA's. Moral is not good right now. But as we are reminded they did not lay any one off and we all have a job.

Sounds like the place I work for.