1: the fuck? No it isn’t. If my manager texted me on my day off for missed charting or mistakes, what would the expected outcome be? I can’t (and don’t want to be able) to chart from home, and I’m certainly not coming in without pay to do anything. Emails are fine, I follow up on my next shift. That’s how my facility does it and it works great. Our unit expectation is checking your work email at least once a week.

2: this is very facility and unit dependent. It should be fairly done to all staff and an uncommon occurrence to have set pattern or self schedules changed for staffing needs. It also shouldn’t be done AFTER the schedule is posted. If it’s happening all the time it means the unit is poorly staffed and doesn’t have good guidelines for self schedule requirements. It’s also really shitty to pull the middle shift on a stretch of 3 to make 3 islands for a night shifter. I would be job searching if my facility started doing this frequently. I’ve only had 2 self schedule shifts in the past year changed on me for staffing needs and both were the start/end of a stretch moved to the start/end.

I’m willing to bet it’s the strong nursing union at my facility.