What is your average amount of shift cancellations

[grammy57]

In a given month, what is the average amount of time you have lost your regularly scheduled shift do to census or any other reason? In an average year, how much money do you feel you've lost/missed out on?

[txnurse2014]

so far in the last seven months i have lost out on 5 shifts but picked up 6 overtime shifts.so i am still ahead.

[caseyuptonurse]

Due to census I've lost about four. But we still get paid when we are called off on our scheduled time. So I didn't miss out on any pay. My other organization I've lost about ten, I don't get paid for those shifts but it's my extra per diem shifts anyways.

[HyperSaurus, RN, BSN]

Probably 3 in the last 5 months. Overtime is MUCH more common in my unit.

[BSNbeauty, BSN, RN]

I would say I get cancelled about 5-6 times a year. Not bad.

[dudette10, MSN, RN]

I'm "scheduled" float pool to six different units, so the chances of me getting cancelled are nil. I haven't been cancelled in a year. If they end up not needing me where I'm scheduled, I get floated to another unit.

[EmergencyRN22]

Never. They always call on my days off to pick up more hours. I'm already full time.

[melizerd, ASN, RN]

We low census maybe once a month in the winter months but we are pretty full the rest of the year. If our floor isn't full someone else probably needs an Rn. So we rotate floating as well.

Never scheduled overtime or even allowed to pick up into over time unless something really odd happens. I don't know anyone who has been in OT since I started in June.

[Katie71275]

Hmm maybe 3 in the last year? Our unit runs this way: On the daily staffing sheet, the nurse may have written a number by their name. The person with a number 1 is requesting to be flexed/called off first, number 2, is second to be called etc. So if it's a slow night, they charge starts calling the people who put a number and asking if they still want to flex. If so, them they can stay home and have the option of using their PTO or off without pay. THey can also say no and they will move on to the next person. If no one wants to stay at home, they wll force prn staff off first, then part time, then full time. My work almost never has to actually force anyone off as we have a large staff and there is always someone who would like to stay home.

[LoveMyBugs, BSN, CNA, RN]

When I worked the floors I was canceled once or twice a pay period during the summer months. I went 5 months without a full paycheck. Since switching to the ED....never and always get called due to short staff

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

When I was PRN my shifts would be canceled about once monthly.

I've been full-time at the same place for a year and a half, and have never had any shifts canceled. It is the opposite: I work overtime once every two weeks.

[sistrmoon, BSN, RN]

I've been called off once in 7 years.