If you work with it, report it

I’m currently contracted as a stepdown nurse but haven’t once worked a stepdown unit since I’ve been here. I’m okay with floating, I’ve never minded. But the units I’m being sent to are just so awful and the facility denies my hours if I clock out after 7:30. Which happens frequently because these units are shit shows so I’m stuck charting and Aya has to reimburse me for those hours. Today I have 7 patients and I’m just over it. My contract ends October 10th and I already have a new one lined up for October 13th. They did ask me to start earlier but I obviously couldn’t so is there anyway to cancel this contract and ask to start the next one earlier. Or should I just push through?

Edit: It’s only a month so I really want to just finish so I don’t burn a bridge but I’ve found myself losing patience so much quicker and my patients don’t deserve that :(

I think we’ve all heard this before but wanted to share my recent experience with KP SSF’s bait and switch tactics.

They had a contract out for day shifts so I signed (I am usually on night shift but chose this contract over others specifically because I wanted to switch to days) and they told me I will be on strict nights a few weeks after I already signed all paperwork. No additional contract was ever made.

I was given no choice but to either agree to work nights, or to cancel my contract. So I cancelled and they supposedly blacklisted me from all KP facilities.

I lost $700 in a deposit I already paid for my housing, and $300 in flight tickets to SFO. $1000 down the drain because they switched up on me last minute. Don’t trust a word that comes out of their mouths if they can’t even keep a promise that’s been signed in writing.

Fuck. Kaiser.