Weekend Call Outs

[LTCRN4LIFE]

We do not have any policy that treats weekend call outs any differently than week days. I have approached this with my Adm but I am getting push back there. In our state it does not pay to be a young mom and a CNA. The state pays you more to stay home and there is no motivation to work. I need a creative approach recruit and retain. Any suggestions?

[ComeTogether, LPN]

I would've quit if I'd just had a miscarriage and they forced me to work.

She was ready to come back by the time that she did. Its just that she had to work the next weekend she was scheduled off.

[omsteelo]

Often people are paid a premium for wekends. Even not- to punsih them for calling 'off' (why call it calling in, when they are calling off work?) or fire them sure seems like a strange way to deal with the matter, since you'd have fewer people on the weekdns, meaning more call offs, and more firings, and...well.

[omsteelo]

And the problem of 'zero tolerance' is that we are humans, with all the trials, and tribulations of what that invloves- even to those that feel they are 'as pure as the driven snow'? Zero tolerance is an awfully ugly two word phrase.

[nicernurse1]

Reason for weekend call outs is because the administration makes us work short off nurses and CNA's...that;s why no one wants to come to work on weekend!!

[PeacockMaiden]

Maybe there's so many call outs because people get burned out by ridiculous nurse-patients ratios, schedules that don't allow for life-work balance, and a punitive environment that is not supportive to the nurse. Those are the reasons why people seem so to call off where I am working.

[KRSLPN, LPN]

I've always thought a good way to "reward" the nurse aides on the floor who do come to work and don't call off is this, when an aide reports off for their shift, whatever their wage is, divide what they would be making for the shift evenly amongst the other aides. (Example if an aide makes $10 per hour and there are 5 aides on the floor, each one would make an additional $2 per hour that shift.) It might help, maybe not, would probably depend on the facility.

[chrisrn24]

I've always thought a good way to "reward" the nurse aides on the floor who do come to work and don't call off is this when an aide reports off for their shift, whatever their wage is, divide what they would be making for the shift evenly amongst the other aides. (Example if an aide makes $10 per hour and there are 5 aides on the floor, each one would make an additional $2 per hour that shift.) It might help, maybe not, would probably depend on the facility.[/quote']

I agree!

[bluegeegoo2, LPN]

The 1st facility I worked in had an interesting, albeit rigid program for call-outs. We were allowed 5 unexcused absences in a 12 month rolling period. The 1st call-out was a "freebie". 2nd, verbal warning, 3rd, written warning, 4th, final written, 5th, termed. However, they also had a "buy back" program. If you worked 2 extra shifts, 1 absence would be dropped from your total. (Your on call weekend was not included in the buy back.) We had very few call-outs at that facility, and they were one of the lowest paying in town. If there was the occasional call-out, it was fairly easy to find someone to cover. Most people want to keep their jobs, but if there is little to no consequence for calling out, what's to stop them?