Mandatory On Call???

meownsmile, BSN, RN · Jan 20, 2008

Mandatory call is usually from that days staffing. If we need to cut staff because the census is low they might call someone off and put them on call for the day. We dont have mandatory call for future shifts though. Definately not what i signed up for. My days off are mine to do with as i please and i wont given them up for the facility. If they want me to work that day,, shedule me and see if i will take an extra shift.

If in fact we do need another staff member to come in,, they just start making calls and hope they get someone. Everyone has the right to say no.

Halinja, BSN, RN · Jan 20, 2008

We have mandatory call, 12 hours per month, in four hour increments. I didn't know there was mandatory call when I signed on. :-(

Fanilow · Jan 20, 2008

Just about every position I have worked requires call. The way it usually works is day shift takes day call and night shift takes night call. We are usually paid something like $2/hr just to carry the beeper and then if called in you get OT pay. Home Care works a little different because all of the call is at night. Which I really don't like to be on call for homecare because it gets pretty scarry going out on the road at 2am and not knowing the patient or home that you are going to.

panther54 · Jan 20, 2008

A few of you have said you didn't sign up for mandatory overtime....things change. Do you have a contract at your facility? Most places I have worked don't have contracts. You are hired, and then as the facility needs change relative to patient care needs, the necessary staffing changes. We get $1.50 for on call and time and a half for call-in. I don't think it's a bad deal. However, we do take call for our own shift in most areas except surgery and L&D. They are on call 24 hours.

Burnt Out, ASN, RN · Jan 20, 2008

We don't really have mandatory on call unless you work in L&D, surgery or PACU. Sometimes my facility will mandate overtime when census is very high of course.

We do get asked to sign up for a call day for our shift (days does days, nights does nights) sometimes once a pay period. If you are full time and you get called in, you can get OT pay.

Zookeeper3 · Jan 20, 2008

we have to do 12 hrs. call over 1 month. we get an extra 7$ per hour when we work it.

bill4745, RN · Jan 20, 2008

We have no mandatory call.

mom2michael, MSN, RN, NP · Jan 20, 2008

My last job had manadatory call, 1-12 hour shift per month. Weekends only. It was $24 extra on our check too. WOW. Needless to say, that really irritated me big time because when I was hired as an RN there I was told that call schedule no longer existed. Liers.

Anyway, I didn't handle it well and that, topped with about a million other things finally led me to quit that place and move on.

My new job doesn't have call. They put people on call for low census but that only applies to M/S and I work ER. L&D is always staffed the same regardless of how many patients they have. OR requires call but that's built into your scheduled days off and that's something you are told about during the hiring process......

Anyway, back when I did call, I refused to sign up willingly so I usually got placed on night call, usually after just working a 12-hour shift and sometimes if they were really mad at me that month, I would have to be back at 0645.

Again, I don't work there anymore :lol2:

perfectbluebuildings, BSN, RN · Jan 20, 2008

January through March, our usually highest census months, supposed to sign up for 1 on-call shift per 2-week pay period; of course sometimes by the time you get to the schedule, the only free nights are ones you are already scheduled; there is not a penalty but they do expect you to make the effort for each pay period.

You get $2 an hour for being on call, then time-and-a-half if called in.

Ruby Vee, BSN · Jan 20, 2008

we have mandatory on call, too. we're supposed to sign up for two 12-hour shifts in every six weeks schedule. we take turns signing up. permanent shifters sign up first, and the rest of us are divided into two groups and take turns signing up last.

the permanent day shift people say they should always get to sign up first because they don't work nights. permanent night people think they should always sign up first because they don't work days and don't want to get stuck with a day call. so that means that we rotaters are always signing up last or next to last. so when i'm working my stretch of nights, i often get stuck with a day shift call. or vice versa. or i end up getting stuck with a saturday call on one of my weekends off and a sunday call on another. so instead of having four weekends off every six weeks, i have two. it sucks!

truern · Jan 22, 2008

Ruby, I think your situation is the worst I've heard of

We, too, get $2/hr just for being on call, and if we're called in then we get time and a half.

I just think with adequate staffing there'd BE NO ON CALL.....you know, in that perfect world!! LOL