Company removed all chairs

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  1. Are they allowed to do this

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      It’s illegal
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      Find a new job

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The company I work for is messed up. It is a SNF They switched pharmacy to save money now we never have medications we need and even run out of Coumadin in the emergency safe. We are always short staffed and I have 26 beds and 3 CNA and they have residents in different sections as well. The facility had 22 falls in 25 days! Not on my station but there are high psych patients and they are cutting down psych meds. A lot of resident violence towards staff now company removed all chairs and are installing computers that are attached to carts permanently. They blame the nurses for everything that happens even when state was coming the head came in yelling at nurses and gave us a book and sa D we wouldn't pass another med until we get 100 percent on her test but no med errors occurred only CNA mistakes. Is this okay can they treat nurses like this? We never even take 10 min breaks. I do now since I can't rest my feet while I chart but other nurses look down on it.

Specializes in School Nursing, Pediatrics.
That story has been going around for years all over the country. It usually involves a patient getting offended because she believed that the staff were referring to her as a "cow".

It's half urban legend, although there may have been some grain or truth to it somewhere at some time.

Well, it is true, as it happened where I worked. I never heard that it was an urban legend, but I lived it. So believe me or not, I don't care.

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That story has been going around for years all over the country. It usually involves a patient getting offended because she believed that the staff were referring to her as a "cow".

It's half urban legend, although there may have been some grain or truth to it somewhere at some time.

We had a psych patient completely freak out, had to call a behavioral RRT, after my hubby, her nurse, said "I left my COW in there". We were talking in the hallway outside of her room. She started screaming and we ran in and she just keep yelling "I'm not a F@#$ing COW" and lots of other fun stuff, then she stood on her bed and took her gown off and asked if it looked like she had "f@#$ing udders". Not a fun night...hilarious now though :)

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.
Haha! Yes, I actually had the wonderful opportunity to do this at the jail I worked. They were paying the fines for short staffing instead of paying for more staff. 1 or 2 RNs for 700 inmate and 50 new pts a day to do full assessments. We obviously couldn't keep up. Management was threatening us every day because we couldn't meet our quotas. Finally, all the staff including the providers put in their 2 wks notice all at once. They were begging us not to quit. They lost their contract 1 month later, then the new company tried to get all of us back, but our experiences had already ruined any thoughts of working there again. It was sweet justice. What sucks is that we liked working with the patients and the job would have been great if we could have had just one more staff member and obviously better management.

What I wouldn't give to have been a fly on THAT wall!!! :roflmao:

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Scrolling through the main page I see- Company removed all chairs----Here.I.Stand- Lol, your screen name is perfectly suited for this thread!

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At a hospital I worked at once, they put the computers on wheels as well, and they were called "COWS", well we were told we couldn't call them that anymore because it was "offensive"....to who we were not sure as they don't have feelings. So we had to start calling them WOWS (work station on wheels).

Those went away a few months later, and they gave us back the regular computers at a desk with chairs.

Just a funny story I thought I would share. But like others have said, I would be looking for a new job!

I worked at a hospital in 2012 that did the same thing, although they didn't say anyone was offended, I thoughts wow (workstation on wheels) sounded so much worse than a cow (computer on wheels), Because I never wanted to say I'm going to get my WOW now (who knows how that would be misinterpreted,lol) I would just say I'm going to get Bessie.

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Specializes in Oncology.

We're off topic now. But we're very unoriginal and call them "computers."

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