When floating staff is necessary, nurses should be assigned to comparable clinical areas” (American Nurses Association, 2009). Plans that could make mobile assignments more acceptable include the use of nurses who have expressed a preference to be assigned to similar units or to units in which they have demonstrated competence. Additionally, create multiple specialized floating pools in which nurses are trained to work in these specialized units and nursing leaders can draw from this pool when no nurses are willing to leave their original units. To help retain mobile nurses, certain benefits, such as potentially being on call, but without a set schedule, working on holidays and nurse recognition programs should be offered (Good & Bishop,