Englewood Hospital & Medical Center Locks Out Nurses

my father works there as an engineer i went to take one of my kids there and had the worse service they didn't even wash there hands just used sanitizer from room to room and the PA and RN got and attitude about me telling them to wash there hands horrible place it is now

Off topic, but it's recommended that you use the hand sanitizer over washing your hands between patients, unless your hands are visibly soiled. I also wash my hands with the hand sanitizer begins to ''cake" a bit.

I see your point but the best way to prevent nosomcomial infections and the spread of germs is HANDWASHING not sanitizing. Especially when its a hospital full of people with the influenza virus!!!!!! There are germs that can live in the sanitizer machine and the handles we had a staff meeting all about it at the job and more sinks put up and were told to go to the sinks instead of springing for the sanitizers

I work at a large academic center in NYC, the "hotbed" of H1N1. We are encouraged to use sanitizer before and after patient care, and wash hands only when visibly soiled.

UNLESS the patient is Cdiff or has fungal sepsis. Handwashing is recommeded for those.

I know this is "water under the bridge" now and the nursing strike is long over, I have to say that I resent the agency nurses being called "unqualified ". How many who call the agency nurses unqualified have ever tried to apply and get into an agency- have any of you ever taken any of thoses agency EXAMS? their mandtories exam are hard- I have been a staff nurse for most of my 30 year career-taking the hospital mandatories- ie. infect, control, fire saftey etc- the hospital's are a cakewalk, with their open book/poster presentations. the agency's are not!! And then there's the agency's Medication tests- ALL MATH problems and you only have 30 minutes or less to complete- the math problems are next to impossible. If there was ever a power outage in hospitals across America- all your IV pumps, even with the battery back up that no one ever plugs in- YOU had better hope there is an AGENCY NURSE in the building to calculate out your drip factors and flow rates, and I would hope you have the graciousness to watch their patients while they are doing this for all you hospital employed staff nurses who haven't taken med calculation tests in years to check YOUR competency! then there is the speciality specific tests that the agency mandates- that one is ALL critical thinking ie. what would you do, "IF". Try that on what the agency classifies as TELEMETRY- Its all code drug from ACLS and a Mock code situation. From what I see in dollywood- the agency nurses are far MORE qualified, on top of their game, than the regular staff. And don't forget- these agency nurses go all over(some all over the country, Calif to Mass.) and can function far exceeding competencies in all those assignments with very little orientation-1-3 days max.( policies, computer programs, nursing skills and where to find services and supplies). Then there is the flexability issue- regular staff nurses are not know for their willingness to float to another unit- it's not comfotable. Agency nurses are very comfortable floating. The way to anger an agency nurse is NOT by making them float. Their brains are very geared to that. They process the same information about a patient situation a whole lot quicker than the average hospital employed staff nurse and are very PROFICIENT at it. To be an agency nurse one must be- exceptionally bright, quick thinking, confident in their own skill level, flexiable, team oriented, able to function in high stress situations ( in all specialties- not just those who do critical care) and that means VERY experienced.

englewood nurses were making $50.00/hour before the strike ($100,000/year) and asking for more money, PAID lunches, more of a uniform allowance on top of the one they already have which the management described as "enough to cover an ENTIRE wardrobe and left thier units in SHAMBLES and Pig sty's . Have the nerve to call themselves "Magnet" How embarassing. In the other parts of New Jersey- RN's are making 1/2 that per hour and with out the perks.

in englewood- 7 patients needed Venting in the first24 hours of the strike- they were on going processes let go. the tele techs didn't know what to think of the agency nurses on the remote tele floors stopping nursing report and flying up to the tele floor and asking for the strips on a distress call- sat back in their chair and stated "I can't believe a nurse actually came up to see for themselve!!!!" none of the regular nurses ever do. $50.00/hour and wanting more??

englewood hospital is a beautiful hospital and has a lot of potential, but it will not ever reach that potential unless the nurses start demanding and expecting a higher standard of practice amongst it's nursing staff (ie. remote tele units - have some knowledge and appreciation for what the arrythmias are and if,how and when they should be treated), demand the stoppage of the money waste with the 6 levels of nursing management(charge nurse, unit manager, unit director, a director of the director, a VP over that, ? CEO of nursing- WHY?? what do they do all day??) pure waste, no wonder there cannot be an new positions -new grads or experienced nurses, stop asking for paid lunches and uniform allowances( the pay rate already exceeds what the rest in NJ are making, come to central and so.jersey make $35-$39/hour with NO paid lunches and No uniform allowance) put the money where it is desperately needed. with the services available to the hospital, the new expansions going on, Magnet status- that hospital SHOULD be THE Jewel- a shinning example of nursing perfection not paperwork thrown all over the desk and stuck in corners, cluelesness re: telemetry/arrythmia ACLS protocals, cardiacs allowed to refuse their cardizem and lay in the beds for 30 days to the point where Bp's are so low and their heart rates accelerate and go into afib when eating- the food that good?? So to insult, but this should be insulting/embarassing. what a shame.