i am so hopping mad:( ...and where does it all end?...got the word yesterday at work that our er nurses are going to have to start taking mandatory on call....l'm wondering if other facilities practice this too....the deal is supposed to be we get paid premium for the hours worked on call and so much an hour to be on call...still, i work full time, my off time is mine and mine alone to share if i want to....isn't this kind of the same thing as mandatory ot?.....they keep cutting our staff, they give us less rn's, and more pemt's...(and l love these guys, but they are so restricted in the er that the rn's have to help a lot w/ their assingment).....also, we have been attempting to get a sane program up and running...trained some staff, bought expensive equipment...but don't want to pass a budget to pay the nurses! ...we just get busier and busier, staff has shrunk, and responsibilities are ever increasing......and our nurses seem to just sit back ant take it time after time....they never say enough!...reminds me of the old children's nursery rhyme song.......there was an old lady who swallowed a fly, who swallowed the spider that swallowed the fly, who swallowed the bird who swallowed the spider..that wriggled and wriggled deep down inside her...i don't know why she swallowed that fly...i guess she'll die........l wish l could remember the rest of the lyrics...but you get the drift...they just keep shoving it down our throat......we just eat it....it's killing us and our profession.....and it's our faults......thanks for listening................lr:crying2:
...we just get busier and busier, staff has shrunk, and responsibilities are ever increasing......and our nurses seem to just sit back ant take it time after time....they never say enough!...reminds me of the old children's nursery rhyme song.......there was an old lady who swallowed a fly, who swallowed the spider that swallowed the fly, who swallowed the bird who swallowed the spider..that wriggled and wriggled deep down inside her...i don't know why she swallowed that fly...i guess she'll die........l wish l could remember the rest of the lyrics...but you get the drift...they just keep shoving it down our throat......we just eat it....it's killing us and our profession.....and it's our faults......thanks for listening................lr:crying2: