KwizRN

I hope you don't mind if I throw some more questions at you. Were you required to sign up for on-call time (paid or unpaid?), and extra shifts? If so, was there a requirement that everyone had to work additional shifts, whether they wanted to or not? Did your hospital supplement closed staffing with agency nurses or a float pool? What did you do if you called everybody and nobody would come in????????? Thanks for any help you can give me

Our hospial is trialing a closed staffing model, and to be honest it's more than a little frightening. We are a 250 bed hospital with 5 ICU's. Is there anyone out there who currently has closed staffing? How does it work? What do you like and dislike about it? The thing I don't understand is how are we going to fill vacancies, sick calls, etc without mandatory on call or overtime and NO FLOAT POOL????. The plan is to call everyone who is not already working and ask them to come in. What kind of plan is that? People don't come in now and it's March. Who do they think will come in on a Saturday in the summer?? If anyone has a good system in place and can advise me on how you fill the vacancies created by sick calls, vacations, etc., I would love to hear from you.