End Your Staffing Crisis—Retain and Respect UCLA Float Pool RNs!

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I recently became aware of UCLA’s new policy of requiring Float Pool per diem nurses to report for work every week, and that such a change in scheduling practices could force hundreds of high-quality nurses to resign from UCLA Health. The prospect of mass resignations is of grave concern to career nurses at UCLA and our community at large.

Float Pool nurses provide critical expertise and are essential for covering staffing shortfalls throughout the hospital. They are an integral part of the nursing care provided to patients at UCLA. This new scheduling practice, however, will make many float pool nurses, and the patient populations they serve, victims of an entirely avoidable staffing crisis of management’s own creation.

By all accounts, UCLA Health has shown little respect to their nurses throughout this process. This new policy will affect per diem Float Pool nurses and career nurses across the UCLA Health hospitals and clinics, and all healthcare workers and patients of UCLA Health will bear the burden of management’s callous and costly decisions.

We urge UCLA Health to rescind the new scheduling practice and return to a model of greater flexibility to retain nurses, improve staffing, and ensure the excellent patient care for which UCLA Health is known.

Sincerely,

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UCLA Health is rolling out a significant scheduling adjustment for its float pool (per diem) nurses, a move that has raised concerns about potential mass resignations, compromised patient safety, and inadequate staffing levels. Previously, float pool nurses benefited from flexible scheduling, which effectively ensured unit coverage and facilitated the accommodation of nurse absences. However, the introduction of stricter scheduling regulations by management threatens to curtail per diem nurses' flexibility, potentially hindering their ability to address staffing shortages and undermining established protocols for ensuring safe patient care coverage.

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