New grad here. If I got cancelled for a shift do I need to make up the hours lost?

[mnf4ever]

I work full time with benefits...would I lose benefits for not making up those 12 hours? Do we have the option of using our vacation hours to make up for lost time? Thanks for your help!

[apocatastasis]

At the facilities I've worked at, it gets taken out of your PTO unless you request that it not.

[klone, MSN, RN]

That's up to your facility. Where I've worked, being cancelled has never affected benefits. It does, however, affect the paycheck, if you don't have the PTO to cover it (and we get cancelled so much that I no longer use PTO for it, I just deal with the tiny little paychecks).

[NurseLisa64]

Did you show up for the shift BEFORE it was cancelled? Where I worked if we arrived to work and got sent home for low census we were paid for 2 hours anyway. It depends on you facility-check you handbook you should have received when you were hired. Otherwise as in HR they can tell you.

[JB2007, ASN, RN]

Where I work you do not have to use your PTO if you do not mind a short check. It does not affect your benefits unless you decrease your point status. We can not help it if the census is low.

[evolvingrn, BSN, RN]

It depends where i work ..... it will vary from facility to facility.

[ckh23, BSN, RN]

Check your policy. The general rule is if they cancel you for whatever reason, ie low census, you are not required to make up those hours. You usually have the option of using PTO to make up for those hours. If you don't have the time or need the money you have the option not to use it. Being canceled has no effect on your benefits because it is the hospital that is telling you not to work so they can save some money.

Also check to see if there is a list. In my unit we have a slow list that if you are canceled you go to the bottom of the list so the same person is not getting canceled over and over.

[cherrybreeze, ADN, RN]

It will definitely vary from facility to facility, so ask HR. Where I worked, you could take PTO or something called OWB (Off With Benefits). That meant that you didn't get paid for those hours, but you still got the credit of them towards your benefit requirements. If you could handle not getting paid, you didn't have to use up your vacation every time you were called off. It was a nice option!

[Tait, MSN, RN]

No you won't lose benefits. You have to come in under a certain amount of hours consistently before your benefits come into question. At our facility we can take ETO/PTO for cancellations, or we can opt out of it because it was considered "forced". That way if you are saving for vacation/maternity leave/whatever you aren't constantly getting it eaten up by low census.

I say enjoy the day and don't worry about it :)

[mnf4ever]

Thank you so much everyone for the useful info! I really appreciate all of your answers. :)))

[Amanda.RN]

It won't affect your benefits - only your PTO or paycheck (your choice - you can either use PTO to make it up so your paycheck will remain the same, or you can deal with a smaller paycheck and save your PTO).