Hell No I Won't Go! Floating
The floor where I work is schedueled for 12 hour shifts, 7p-7a etc.
Recently, my manager hired a transfer from another floor who came to us because she was floating too much. She works 4-8 hour shifts during the week and is scheduled for 1-12 during the weekend. Well this has put our staffing in an overage. During the week now when she comes in there are 5 nurses on the floor instead of 4. So, whats been happening during the week when she comes in because there is an extra nurse, the nurses who are there are reluctantly giving up there assignment to this nurse and they are being floated only to start over again. Well, when she came in this Friday,(my first day working with her) she expected someone to give up there assignment to float. I told her that we were taking a stand and that no one was given up their assigmnet to her especially after we had done the majority of the work, passing meds, talking to family member, calling doctors for order, answering call bells. Now that 11pm has come and everything is for the most part calm. Why should we have to start all over again and now instead of documenting on 6 or 7 patients we have to document on 12 or 14 patients. Its not fair. I myself would not expect a person to give up their assignment. I feel she has the nerve and odasity to think anyone else would. The supervisor got involved and stated that one of us (the ones who came in at 7p) would have to float.
I stood my ground and said that I wasn't giving up my assignment. After an hour of altercation. The supervisor called my manager. she called the floor and spoke to me and the nurse who had come in. She understood where I was coming from and ultimately persuaded the nurse who had come in a 11p to float. The floor as a whole is planning a meeting to discuss this unfair practice. What do you think?