Put On Call yesterday then found out.....

[pink2blue1]

....that they floated another nurse from another floor to my floor!!!:angryfire

I went to the hospital about 7:30 this morning to get my daughters blood drawn for her thyroid. I had to go up to the floor and write in our Kronos book to make sure I got my on call pay. Something told me to look at the assignment sheet. So I went over and looked. I knew we had a lot of nurses on for New Years day and the census was at 16 when I left Monday night with 2 coming from ER. I asked the person who was doing staffing, when she came up to deliver the night staffing sheet, if she was going to have to call off people the next day, as I did not want called off. She said no, she had all the people she needed, all units fully staffed.

When I looked at the sheet today, I saw that they had called off 2 of our unit RN's and put me on call (I am an LVN) AND they floated an RN from another floor to OUR floor. THis was a scheduled day for me, not extra, and they put me on call only to float another nurse in!!! I was so mad because now I lost a day of work, plus holiday overtime that I would have gotten as well. Sure I get 12 hours of call pay ($7.00 an hour) plus 8 hours of holiday pay at my regular rate.

I called my manager today and she was mad too.

Would you be mad if this happened to you? I'm so mad. I am the only parent working in my home and my hubby and I have 3 kids and I was looking forward to that extra $$$ on my check!

[pink2blue1]

Are you classified as a regular full-time employee? If not, then you risk getting called off. In most hospitals I've worked full-time staff can refuse to be called off if there are part-time or flex staff working anywhere in house; if their own floor doesn't need them, then they are floated and the flex/part-time staff on the other floor is called off.

Yes, regular full time benefited. Travelers are supposed to get called off first, then PD. My manager is looking into it.

[EmmaG, RN]

Yes, regular full time benefited. Travelers are supposed to get called off first, then PD. My manager is looking into it.

Ah ok. Then the only thing I can think of is perhaps they thought they were doing you a favor by giving you a holiday off. Now if that were the case, and I were the pulled nurse, I'd be upset to have to cover another unit because they shorted their floor by giving their staff the holiday off (I've seen that happen a lot). Then again, I've also had supervisors tell me that they had extra staff on other floors who wanted to work, and ask if I had anyone who would want the holiday off. I was always careful to ask those I called about that, though.

As far as travelers go... for me and the travelers I worked with, our contracts guaranteed our hours. If we were called off for low census, it did not save the hospital a dime.