scrn68

If you have low census and personnel have to be placed on-call, who gets placed on-call first? Unfortunately, we have low census often and has brought up issues in our department. The order we implement is: 1st- any personnel who may be in overtime, 2nd- PRN personnel, 3rd- part-time personnel, 4th- full-time personnel. My question is why part-time before full-time. I can see if it is PT personnel who may be scheduled beyond their normal hours, but this is not the case. When I'm scheduled to work 2 days per week and if we are low census and/or no OT or PRN personnel are scheduled, I will be first to be placed on-call or called off everytime. I am the only PT person and fail to see the logic here. I get benefits and PTO. PTO dwindling down due to this and I'm not accruing hours due to lack of work. Any insight regarding this matter would be helpful.