melanianne

Hi all,I currently work as an RN in a medium sized regional medical center where we average 1400'ish births per year. Our births have increased by about 20-30/month and staffing has gotten a little hairy with this change. Our facility is a little different than most because we are cross-trained to triage, antepartum, labor, delivery, recover, scrub and circle c/s, PACU, and Peds. With that being said we have about a 6 month orientation timeframe. With the more recent influx of patients we have struggled with maintaining appropriate staffing or needing to call in for additional staffing in the middle of the night. I was wondering what other medical facilities do or how they handle their staffing in these types of circumstances? Do you have on-call shifts, stagger shift times, or do they over-staff then call you off if it doesn't look like you will be needed, etc.? If you do get called in is there an incentive to accepting this shift? I'm looking to provide some constructive feedback to management on how other medical centers handle their staffing. Thanks!!