Surgical RN's Post Call Day Off??

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Specializes in Surgery.

I'm taking an informal survey. At my facility, we take the first day post call (1st call only) off. I'm being told we are the ONLY hospital in America that practices this way---ALL other hospitals in the US just require you to work post call (unless you call out).

I'm curious to the ways other facilities handle this situation.

thanks for your time!!

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

It's taken on a case by case basis. If we got some sleep, we work. If the schedule is light or we didn't get at least enough sleep to make us functional, we are given the option to leave. The day I worked a 26 hour shift (0600 Monday- almost 0800 Tuesday), you bet I was out the door as soon as report was given to someone when they came in and were able to relieve me.

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Specializes in Surgical RN- cardiac specialty.

At my facility we are"post-call" if we work past 11pm (our shift begins at 6) or if we get called in in the middle of the night. Now granted if you get called in at 0530, that usually doesn't count unless we are over-staffed. We also get "safety pay" 10 dollars an hour for the length of our shift to make sure we retain full-time status. Some people volunteer to come back later to give breaks and lunches depending on how late they worked but that is never mandated no matter how short staffed we are.

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Specializes in PACU.

I'm in PACU and we work the day after call, if it's been crazy and we've been there all night we are the first to go home. If the morning is light we might get a call with a later start time instead. The whole day would have to be light to get called off.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Moved to OR nursing

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Specializes in Operating Room.

In the union facilities I have worked, they had to give you 8 hours rest time if you were called in past 12am. In the non union facilities, I just called out the next day. Sorry, not working with 4 hours sleep, especially since most of the time we were called for non emergent cases.

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

I find it crazy to believe that someone is telling you that they surveyed EVERY hospital in the US (we're talking 6000 facilities) to find that yours is the ONLY call set up like this. And that people believe it.

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At the hospital where I worked until last year, we got the day after call off whether we were called in or not. We worked 8,10, or 12 hour shifts so our schedules kind of depended on how many call shifts we picked for each week. If we had two call shifts, say Monday and Wednesday night then we would work a 12 hour shift on Monday Wednesday and Friday and be off on Tuesday Thursday.

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