Re: Nursing board investigates Reno hospital Nurse Managers
I hear complains after complains. I justt graduated from Nursing school and have been in the medical field for 13 yrs, it all began in a LTC facility. It never crossed my mind that LTC facilities existed. Anyhow, I worked there for almost 4 yrs and had been told not to get pregnant or they would find a way to get me fired and loose benefits~come back the next day to reapply and they would hire peeps again. I thought it was a joke brought up by angry employees who had actually done something wrong. I got pregnant and got fired 3 weeks before having my baby!
Their reason was I was working on the floor without assistance! My response was how could I not, if understaffed! four halls and three aids working on the floor for 120 patients! Each took a hall and then we each would go to the 4th hall which had more independent clilents in it. It was stressful, I cried every day I went to work, but I did it for all the patients I had been grown to see get older alone. I cried they day I left thinking not of getting fired, but about the quality of care my patients would get. who would care for them when they needed assistance even for a few minutes? I didn't go back tp reapply; instead, I went and registered at my local college and started taking classes online. I graduated May 15th and took NCLEX July the 5th(my birthday) and I know I passed. So, I realize I am a new nurse and the great responsability that I will carry on my shoulders as I evolve as a professional nurse and so I think as I read this postings...can't you say no if it's not within your scope of medical care? If we can't change the world, we can at least do what we can to help the patients know and feel they are getting quality care even when the other nurses or managers are not practising within nursing policy?
Just a thought, I did this in memory of all the patients lifes I've had the honor to be part of at that LTC facility, RIP.
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