nursejacki

Our Endo unit has 24 hour call because we are hospital based. We have 4 full-time RN's and 1 full-time tech (just lost our 2nd tech to an out-lying facility for more money!). Our call consists of 1 nurse and 1 tech after hours and on weekends. We always have a 2nd RN on until 7p weekdays and from 8a-12p on Sat/Sun. The 2nd RN is for recovery IF we have more than 1 case back-to-back and also if we have a gen anes case (due to policy at our facility and state rules). I schedule each call nurse every fourth day and then fill in the back-up nurse per staff requests, etc. The call nurse and tech are the last to leave after cases. We have no doc or pt restrictions as to hours of cases, except for weekends, absolutely no outpatients! We get a lot of call-back hours at time and a half and beeper time especially during "season". The extra money is great, except when we get called in the middle of the night! :blushkiss