REPORT THEM (HOSPITALS) TO JACHO, advise from my sisters.

My God is not the author of confusion, but of peace.
On Thanksgiving day, I spoke to my oldest sister, who is an Internal Medicine physician. I was telling her my recent hospital experience in 'a matter of fact' conversation. Her response was, 'I WOULD REPORT THEM TO JACHO'.

Okay, here is the story. I got a new assignment in Michigan, 13 wks.

The nurse manager & I agreed, I only needed 2 days to learn their paper work. The assistant nurse manager wanted me to be precepted a week. I was precepted by the nurse mangers' choice. The assistant nurse managers' choice became a reference source the next week. All the nurses even the charge nurse asked her for advice. Reference Person went behind me & found my nursing care & my documentation was "Good" as she continue to state.

My 2nd day Preceptor was the educator, no problems. She also gave me a lunch.

Let's go forward, I asked the Reference Person for a break or what time were lunches. Her response to me was, 'I can't do that & we don't take lunches or breaks (it was not busy), ..... I return to my pt care. My pt was not in her room, I asked her if I could run down for 15 minutes & get something to eat before they close, again she said 'no'. Then she added, "You might as well start bring your lunch & try & eat like the rest of us are, anywhere & everywhere. Matter of fact, "YOU CAN GO & GET SOME CHEESE & CRAKER OUT OF THE PANTRY" I try to explain to this reference person & the charge nurse that I wanted to run down before it got busy, this is a 12 hour shift. They again say 'no'. The supervisor came up & they said, 'you can talk to the supervisor if you would like'.

Okay, I was not feeling well, when I went to work, BIG time PMS & left sided calf pain, (just finished 2 10 hours trips & 4 weeks before that, 13 hour trip). I spoke to the supervisor in private. Supervisor stated, she would speak to the nurse manager about breaks, AFTER WE OBSERVE 7 NURSES, SITTING AT THE NURSES' DESK, EATING, WITH ONLY 6 PTS & 2 IN TRIAGE. These nurses were walking around the desk eating FOOD. WOULD THEY GET SITED IF JACHO WALKED ON THE UNIT AND SEEN THEM EATING AT THE DESK. UNSANITARY.

After almost 6 hours into the shift, I called the supervisor & went to ER. That next afternoon, I got a phone call, they didn't want me to return, , , . I had mix feelings, .

My youngest sister, that's the 1st advise she gave me, a week ago, 'REPORT THEM'. She's always reported company & people to the authorities.

Anyway, I'm not sure, what to do. This is not the first time a facility has told me, I have good, sometimes even excellent nursing care, but have let me go by telling me I have an attitude. I spoke to this nurse, as humbly as I could.

My youngest sister tells me, that I am going to continue to run into the problem until I do what God wants me to do. Plus, I am reminded that these hospital do have finances to hire more help. If they cut a nurse, it's just a nurse's salary that goes into their pocket. They just have the nurses' brain washed & continue to tell them 'the budget it short'.

I have prayed for these people, I have prayed for these facilities and I have prayed for myself.
SHOULD I MAKE A CALL TO JACHO?

Treasure