being squeezed out

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm so confused by what you said, because it doesn't make any sense. Good luck.

In the US you can get a many or as little hours as you wish.

I am confused. Are you saying they are requiring the each nursing unit to establish full time employees only? Or set up a schedule that eliminates over-time? Or what exactly? Are you saying they are eliminating part-time employees?

I think I understood your post, and I believe that I was in a similar situation at a hospital once. It sucked big time! They eliminated most of the full time positions, and replaced them with a greater number of part-time and per diem positions, planning to plug those people into a mix and match of shifts. Then they placed minimum hour requirements with excessive weekend and holiday stipulations on the per diems. No one was happy with the outcome.

Needless to say, the plan backfired, and the hospital lost most of their nurses. But, unlike your situation, we had other places available that hadn't already gone completely looney.

Sorry, Adrie. Hope it works out some way for you. If all elase fails, we would welcome you in California.

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Yeah I know that doesn't make sense. That's part of the problem. Anyway. Okay so some pollitician decides that the key to managing the nursing shortage is to make employers make the nurses work as many hours as they can. This has come into effect in my province and especially in my city. I work in personal care so the staffing levels are lowish. They couldn't create any more full time positions so they decided to attack the lower EFT's (I don't know if y'all are familiar with that -- it's like a percentage of full time, such as 0.2 EFT means 2 shifts during a 14 day period). So they started with getting rid of all the EFT's smaller than 0.4 (four shifts during a 14 day period). So in effect, even if the whole point of this initiative is to increase the base level of hours worked by nurses, it is lowering the hours by those who are not full time --- because they didn't want to cut any positions. BECAUSE LAYING OFF NURSES IS BAD PRESS.

You still with me? So anyway, they're deleting all the old positions and making us re-apply. I can't afford to work any reduced hours from my old 0.6 position. That means I'll have to either look elsewhere or fight for one of the full time jobs.

Originally posted by adrienurse

hee hee hee

Yeah I know that doesn't make sense. That's part of the problem. Anyway. Okay so some pollitician decides that the key to managing the nursing shortage is to make employers make the nurses work as many hours as they can. This has come into effect in my province and especially in my city. I work in personal care so the staffing levels are lowish. They couldn't create any more full time positions so they decided to attack the lower EFT's (I don't know if y'all are familiar with that -- it's like a percentage of full time, such as 0.2 EFT means 2 shifts during a 14 day period). So they started with getting rid of all the EFT's smaller than 0.4 (four shifts during a 14 day period). So in effect, even if the whole point of this initiative is to increase the base level of hours worked by nurses, it is lowering the hours by those who are not full time --- because they didn't want to cut any positions. BECAUSE LAYING OFF NURSES IS BAD PRESS.

You still with me? So anyway, they're deleting all the old positions and making us re-apply. I can't afford to work any reduced hours from my old 0.6 position. That means I'll have to either look elsewhere or fight for one of the full time jobs.

I'm sorry this is happening to you. Sounds very political in origin. I worked for a hospital that made us all 'reapply' too...and one of their goals was to eliminate certain staff as well I suspected.:stone