Or nurse float to floor?

[JOURNEYDL]

Anyone being expected to float to the floor and have never been there before (except maybe in nursing school) i thought we were a specialty, how can an or nurse float safely to floor nursing without orientation?

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

No floating, just being called off for the shift. I'd rather float than go without pay though, as long as there's some orientation to the floor.

[TakeTwoAspirin, MSN, RN, APRN]

I've never heard of that. Where I have worked nobody ever floats into our out of the OR.

[JOURNEYDL]

thanks for your reply. what sort of hospital do you work at, trauma or teaching? how many or's? what sort of management style in the o.r.? thanks

[TakeTwoAspirin, MSN, RN, APRN]

Trauma. 18 rooms. Management same as everywhere else, charge nurse rules!

[Argo]

I would float if needed, some of my circulators float to the floors. I would just expect some orientation,like a couple hours at least..... I'm the manager for our OR, 7 rooms plus endo suites, what charge nurse says is law even if my VP comes down she goes through me as do other unit directors when they need staffing. I will tell them no then I ask if anyone wants to float down to te unit.

[GadgetRN71, ASN, RN]

In all of the hospitals I've worked in, people don't float into or out of the OR. The first 2 were community hospitals and my facility now is a big teaching hospital.

[Argo]

No one floats to the or at my place. Usually they work the units if they want the extra cash, not cause they get "pulled".

[muornurse1]

I havent worked the floor in 23 years. I would probably kill somebody... Last time I worked on the floor there were only 2 kinds of insulin-Reg. and NPH and everybody with HTN got HCTZ and K+ Supplement.....God Forbid!!

[MamaCheese]

We never get pulled from the OR to float anywhere. I cannot even imagine it I've been away from floor nursing for 3 years now and it would be a stretch for me to even try floor nursing now. Most of our OR nurses have not done floor nursing for 20+ years. Sounds very dangerous to me.

[XingtheBBB, BSN, RN]

13 room OR. 300 bed "teaching" hospital. (FP residents and various med and PA students but not surgical or OB residents. No trauma.

OR nurses do not float out of peri-op. Most float to holding regularly and we may be asked to float to ASU but can opt to stay home instead.

A select few of us opted to call the nursing super or staffing secretary and offer to float to floors we're familiar with instead of staying home. I only did so if I was called off a lot. We wouldn't have been allowed to float if we ddin't have recent floor experience and minimal floor competencies done.

Our aides and anesth. techs did get pulled for PCA work or, more often 1:1, as needed.

[shodobe]

Our union contract dictates "clusters" for floating. The OR is clustered with OB and ONLY for c/sections. We would rather suffer with less staff than to ever have anyone float to us. That is the problem alot of nurses fail to see. A lot of OR nurses can still float to areas of the hospital and with little orientation function fairly well. On the other hand, there isn't an RN anywhere in the hospital that can float to the OR without a considerble amount of orientation. I would rather take a day without pay than float to the floor. It just isn't my cup of tea anymore.