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No. 10
from RNperdiem
Old Nov 08, 2009, 11:34 AM

Default Re: Ok I dont like ortho
I worked as a CNA in ortho for a while. It is amazing how much time a person can spend getting patients up to the chair, to the bathroom and back to bed.
A good ortho floor requires plenty of CNA's up for the work.
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No. 11
from newtress
Old Nov 08, 2009, 12:04 PM

Default Re: Ok I dont like ortho
One poster mentioned something that has been happening with me also. I am brand new on this ortho/neuro floor, and these nurses who have been on this unit a long time don't answer their call lights, or respond to their patients after I go in the room and they have specifically requested "my nurse Jane or Joe so and so." I can't get any of my own work done. I don't get why I need to be tending to other's patients and doing their PCA's, total cares, IV pumps etc. I am finding that the ortho part of the patient isn't near the care involved as all the co morbidities that I am doing nursing care for. It is total care for those patients. I am disappointed and can't see myself there for the one year I promised myself to have to be a better candidate for a new job. Do I bail out now and take my chances of going to a better new grad position elsewhere to gain time, or stay there because it is a large reputable hospital and hard to get on with hospitals right now.
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No. 12
from Diane-RN in Michigan
Old Nov 08, 2009, 01:02 PM

Default Re: Ok I dont like ortho
Originally Posted by shodobe View Post
Maybe you should move on and stop moaning and groaning about it.
wow, that's helpful.
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No. 13
from Mikeperkins_rn
Old Nov 08, 2009, 02:05 PM

Default Re: Ok I dont like ortho
ha well 2 more months I can do internal transfers. Im already doing searches now.
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No. 14
from Virgo_RN
Old Nov 08, 2009, 02:49 PM

Default Re: Ok I dont like ortho
No disrespect intended toward ortho nurses, but for me personally, working ortho would make me want to stab my eyeball with a fork. If you don't like it after only 4 months, I agree, get out. Good luck finding something you like!
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No. 15
from morecowbelle
Old Nov 08, 2009, 09:27 PM

Default Re: Ok I dont like ortho
Give me a couple total hips, a couple total knees, an open tib-fib, PCA pumps, skeletal traction, and CPM machines and I'm a happy gal!!! You can even throw in a little old lady who fell and broke her hip who is now trying to crawl over the siderails!! Oh, and if i get to Narcan the MVA that just came up from the ER, well that's just too cool!!!
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No. 16
from locolorenzo22
Old Nov 08, 2009, 09:48 PM

Default Re: Ok I dont like ortho
im always partial to calling in the ortho surgeons to make them gauge the pressure on a suspected compression sydrome patient(only happened once at 2AM, but hey, the female nurses told me thanks for giving them the site of a ortho surgeon in his pajamas!)
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No. 17
from janhetherington
Old Nov 08, 2009, 10:22 PM

Default Re: Ok I dont like ortho
Oh how I wish ortho were boring! I long to be bored, but I never am. Just like every other part of the hospital now, flying in and once they're the least bit stable they're out of there. Not to mention the comorbidities and the medical overflow. Like another poster says, it kicks my butt night after night.
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No. 18
from TittytatRN
Old Nov 09, 2009, 02:31 AM

Default Re: Ok I dont like ortho
Originally Posted by newtress View Post
One poster mentioned something that has been happening with me also. I am brand new on this ortho/neuro floor, and these nurses who have been on this unit a long time don't answer their call lights, or respond to their patients after I go in the room and they have specifically requested "my nurse Jane or Joe so and so." I can't get any of my own work done. I don't get why I need to be tending to other's patients and doing their PCA's, total cares, IV pumps etc. I am finding that the ortho part of the patient isn't near the care involved as all the co morbidities that I am doing nursing care for. It is total care for those patients. I am disappointed and can't see myself there for the one year I promised myself to have to be a better candidate for a new job. Do I bail out now and take my chances of going to a better new grad position elsewhere to gain time, or stay there because it is a large reputable hospital and hard to get on with hospitals right now.
One thing I've learned to do is stay in my own pt's rooms as much as possible, computers at the bedside for charting make it easy. We use voceras so I know if I have another pt calling me. Not that I go out of my way to not help my co-workers but some are slackers and definitely would not help me. It just happened the other night that a call light was going off forever and another nurse was sitting right outside the door at a computer ... Grrr.
With the job market the way it is it may be real tough to find a job as a new grad, I would recommend just sticking it out for a year and transfer.
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No. 19
from NurseCard
Old Nov 09, 2009, 04:06 AM

Default Re: Ok I dont like ortho
Originally Posted by shodobe View Post
Maybe you should move on and stop moaning and groaning about it.
I am unhappy where I am as well and I do wish it were always that easy to take your advice. Unfortunately,
some things make it not so easy. Pretty much, I would have to switch employers, AGAIN, for the fourth time in three years. Money and benefits are good here, and that's hard to let go of. The economy is making it hard
to find new jobs. Soooo... sometimes all we can do is vent.

As for ortho, I actually rather liked it and would be happy on a floor with nothing but hips and knees. =) And shoulders.
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