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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

Can those nurses consider filing assault charges against the hospital?

I'm sure going into this "training" they were NOT expecting THAT. :no:

Specializes in PACU, pre/postoperative, ortho.

I find it interesting that the majority of comments after the article think it's a great idea, even those that claim to be nurses. 😲

I find it interesting that the majority of comments after the article think it's a great idea, even those that claim to be nurses. ������

There are 26 total comments. Of the "for" arguments out of the 26, I suspect four shills, and three mouth breathers.

In other words, it would take a lot more public commentary to weed out outliers from the central tendency.

You say you wouldn't have taken part, but maybe you would have.

You don't know me very well :) There is no threat an employer could make, no bribe they could offer and no amount of psychological manipulation would ever be sufficient, to make me hop up on a bedpan wearing goggles just to please my employer. Not going to happen.

Hospitals merely manipulate through profiling and psychological tactics based on what they know about the general population in its workforce. It's taking complex data, statistics, and then taking action (betting) based on probability of outcomes.

You make hospital management sound positively Machiavellian. I don't know that you're wrong about this being the norm, but I certainly hope that you are. Profiling employees and planning various "activities" based on the result sounds rather extreme.

Whichever way this boot camp thing came about, shame on them.

@RainMom

I find it interesting that the majority of comments after the article think it's a great idea, even those that claim to be nurses.

It's probably the good folks over at SDN or some other variety of internet trolls. I wouldn't put much stock in those comments.

Specializes in Critical Care.
They need a boot camp for management. No breaks, unreasonable patients and family members, ridiculous mandatory charting, 5 call lights going off at once, monitor alarms and bed alarms screeching as well.

When they put the alarm system in our breakroom so there was no escape from the lights, I thought why don't they put the alarms in their own offices! Surprised they didn't put an alarm system in our bathroom as well!

Specializes in Tele/Med Surg/Psych.

Ugh, I did my role transition clinical at that hospital. Doesn't surprise me at all :( so glad I didn't apply there. Patient satisfaction can't be the only thing driving reimbursement. This scares me as a new nurse!

Specializes in Hospice.
You're right, it is abusive. This is so bad that I'm having trouble believing that it really happened. That article reads like the worst April Fool's day hoax ever. Only, it's June 25th.

That harebrained boot camp scheme is in my opinion both sadistic and counter-productive and it clearly shows that management in that facility has zero respect for their nurses. Personally, I would never stay with such an employer and I would have refused to take part in the "exercise".

Believe it. Hospitals were doing crap like this 25 years ago, albeit on a much smaller, somewhat less abusive scale.

We had "training sessions" where we had to wear the goggles and ear plugs to simulate what it felt like to be elderly.

All it did was piss people off, because of course we had to go during one of our shifts.

Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.
Personally, I would never stay with such an employer and I would have refused to take part in the "exercise".

A nurse after my own heart. :inlove: That was exactly what I was going to say.

Specializes in UR/PA, Hematology/Oncology, Med Surg, Psych.

Disrespectful and demeaning to the profession of nursing

Wow and I live 15 min away from that hospital. So once I get my RN I will definitely NOT apply there.

Specializes in Hospice.
Disrespectful and demeaning to the profession of nursing

That's ok, there's a poster on another thread who feels she is qualified to challenge NCLEX and become a nurse without going through nursing school because she's an RT and is currently working as a CNA because she can't find a job as an RT.

THAT'S disrespectful and demeaning to the profession of nursing.

Specializes in ICU.
That's ok, there's a poster on another thread who feels she is qualified to challenge NCLEX and become a nurse without going through nursing school because she's an RT and is currently working as a CNA because she can't find a job as an RT.

THAT'S disrespectful and demeaning to the profession of nursing.

What??? Gotta look now...

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