Pulling New grad/new employee to another floor two days after coming off orientation.

Princess_M83 · Jan 12, 2009

Check the policy at your hospital. The policy where I work is that new grads are not floated for 90 days after they are out of orientation unless it is a shift scheduled above their required shifts for the week.

oramar · Jan 12, 2009

Every place I ever worked had a six month rule on pulling new grads. I have been coming to this site for 10 years and still I read things everyday that make me shake my head. Wait let me guess, they pull new grad to strange unit and the staff there promptly beings to complain because the newbies seems so disoriented, disorganized and distracted.

litbitblack, ASN, RN · Jan 12, 2009

I would bring it up with the director of the division as your probably not the only one to have to deal with it. It should be the charge nurse who decides who goes and it should be based on what the floor needs and the experience of the nurse they want to send. Yes definately bring it up

Vito Andolini · Jan 12, 2009

You need to speak up to your supervisor. Get things cleared up now. Don't let this continue to happen and don't wait for the next time they tell you you're being pulled. Do it now.

pink2blue1 · Jan 12, 2009

Our new grads are not floated for 6 months. I'd check with policy and see what theirs is

dollphyn · Jan 12, 2009

I recently started at a hospital as a new R.N. grad. and two days after coming off my six week orientation I got pulled to another floor. I heard that this happens all the time, but I do not feel that it is safe and puts that nurse in a bad position. I would be o.k. with this after working for at least six months or so but not two days after coming off orientation. Nurses are not allowed to apply for another position on another floor until after six months so how is it fair for them to be able to pull you?? There are plenty of other nurses that have more hospital exp. that they could pull if short on another floor not a new one. would like suggestions/opinions please thanks!!!

On my floor there are three of us that started back in June. As soon as we were off orientation, they started floating us, even though we were told that we would not be floated for six months. My manager hired too many people for night shift and so one of us gets floated a night. Last week, I was floated 2 out of the 3 days I was at work. Yes, I am now 7 months out, but it has not gotten any easier. I have to stay another 5 months due to contract, but the other new grads are thinking about leaving and just paying back the money we got to pay for NCLEX or whatever other fee we have to pay for breaking contract.

At our hospital the philosophy of other floors is to give the float nurse the worst patients. They go around and ask which patients do you not want and they give them to the float nurse, no matter if that float is a new grad or seasoned nurse. We have complained, turned the floors in that do this, and it seems like it falls on deaf ears.

Needless to say, my first seven months have not been as I expected and I have already started looking elsewhere since management does not follow through with what they say.

Good luck to you.

Dolce, RN · Jan 13, 2009

They go around and ask which patients do you not want and they give them to the float nurse, no matter if that float is a new grad or seasoned nurse. We have complained, turned the floors in that do this, and it seems like it falls on deaf ears.

Thats not right. As an agency nurse, I have been floated multiple times, too. Its usually not that easy to be floated and definitely isn't appropriate or safe for a brand new grad.

woknblues · Jan 13, 2009

double post.

Morettia2, BSN, RN · Jan 14, 2009

I was a new grad last year fresh off of orientation at the worst time of year. I was pulled to the ER 2 weeks off of orientation. It was Dec 23rd 2007. I wil never for get it. Thank god the ER was the slowest it's been in 20+ years and I did nothing but I talked to my director and she knew the situation.