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My floor has had a lot of new hires, many of them are young. The young ones are new grads, and the older ones are transfers from other floors. I haven't seen an older new grad, yet.
Holy crap, I really don't know what to say about what's happening at your place. It's like Logan's Run. And I say this as a young person. I won't be young for long.
"Soylent White is NURSES! It's NURSES!" =)
I didn't get the Logan's Run reference, though.
Anyhoo.... at the LTC that I worked last year, my DON went
nuts and fired a crap-ton of people, including myself. But
that was right around state survey time, and I think the stress
got to her or something. I have no idea why this would
be happening in your hospital, but it sounds horrible and
scary, for sure.
Kesmarn: Yes I did; I got fired last August and I just now found a new job;
however I also just now threw my hands up and decided to really look at
LTC jobs again. I've been looking mostly at hospitals and home health/
hospice. Hospital jobs where I live are getting harder and harder to come
by, for anyone. I've put in many applications at hospitals and gotten NO
reply from many of those.
kesmarn
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Is this happening in anyone else's place of employment? Since the beginning of 2012 our 240 bed acute care hospital has fired at least a dozen nurses and a few PCTs (nursing assistants). Many of them have been over 50 years old and had worked there for many years. Those of us who remain don't have any info on reasons for these abrupt terminations. The nurses involved will usually be working as usual when they're suddenly pulled off the floor into the office and told to empty their lockers and be escorted out by security.
Needless to say those of us who remain have stress levels that are through the roof. Most if not all of the nurses terminated seemed to be "good" nurses. It seems odd that someone could perform acceptably for 30 years and then suddenly become incompetent...
Could this be because new Medicare reimbursement policies factor in patient satisfaction scores and young attractive nurses get higher ratings from patients? As an older nurse, naturally I'm worried.