Crappy Nurses Day

[RunningWithScissors]

Yesterday my hospital "celebrated" nurses day. They had vendors from a local scrub store and jewelry outlet with tables in a tiny area off the side of the main conference room, where the managers got to sit at linen-covered tables and got served luncheon. Nurses got pieced of sub sandwich and a wal-mart veggie tray that had only leftover broccoli on it when I got there.

Also, I was the only one there, getting "lunch" at 2pm. The people staffing the area were wondering where all the nurses were, duh, they can't get off the floor!!

Later they announced "hors d'erves (spelling?) and an "awards" ceremony in the conference room. I stopped by about 45 min. later and the DON was still giving out certificates for all the new grads in the hospital. ***??? A co-worker went down after that and said there were NO nurses there, just educators and managemnet type people, and the DON walked right by her without making eye contact, THE ONLY ACTUALLY WORKING NURSE IN THE ROOM!!!! And the "hors d'erves" were dried up and burning in the warmers, apparantly they were served to the awards people and not made available to actual staff. Go figure. Oh, everybody gets a plastic mug, a pint sized version of the ones we give out free to patients.

Yeah, crappy nurses day to you too.

[eldragon]

Wow. By all means, take care of your sight. When a facility cares nothing about its employees other than that their warm bodies show up for a shift, it's amazing how they then wonder why morale is low.

Are you going to purchase COBRA insurance so that whatever eye care you will need will be covered? I know it's expensive but you may be looking at some really expensive care down the line.

I lost all of the vision in one eye, after all sorts of fiascos involving retinal tears, surgery, neovascular glaucoma, more surgery, couple of other surgeries, and finally collapsed retina. Too much mush in there to work on anymore. My eyesight in my other eye is very, very nearsighted and has been since I was a child, but it is correctable with lenses, so I can see OK to work, drive, read, and do anything I want (except catch a baseball; no depth perception, lol. Or do an Accucheck easily for the same reason- but I can do them, just a little awkwardly). I did have one leaky vessel in my good eye that required a laser treatment a few yrs. ago, but so far it's doing OK with no further problems. Looking at those statements you get in the mail from social security occasionally, if I were to become completely disabled I would get what amounts to half of my current salary, so at least I'd have something, and my house will be paid off in a couple of years so that's good. (I hope there IS any social security at retirement or whenever I do need it!!!)

Sorry, didn't mean to get off on a tangent about myself, just wanted to say that I know firsthand how valuable your eyesight is, and by all means, you do whatever you need to do to take care of it. That facility you're leaving can find someone else to kick around.

Thanks for your concern.

I never took the facilities insurance. I stayed on my husbands plan.

I had planned on quitting soon but was hoping to hang in there a bit longer. It's dawning on me that the time is never right. This job has been bad from day one and my original goal was to make it one year. I surpassed that goal by a few months. There's nothing good about the place, except the residents obviously. Management is awful.

In 15 months, we're on our third DON. I think this one is there to stay, but she's cold as ice. She never helps on the floor either.

3boysmom, I am glad to hear you can still work and drive. I am hoping everything works out well for me, too, but am thankful for the otherwise good health I am blessed with.

Take care!

[June55Baby]

I want to work where you work!

Yep! Good place with great administrative staff and a very strong CNO.

Hospital has received "One of the Best Places to Work" awards more than once AND this year the State Nurses Ass'n gave us the Nightingale Award for Best Hospital Over 100 Beds.

Not perfect, but from my standpoint, better than alot I read about here.

[RNSC]

The more things change the more they stay the same. My veiws on the "crappy" day are in last year's thread.

https://allnurses.com/geriatric-nurses-ltc/does-your-facility-301919.html

[jackson145]

Your post makes me think that you've spent more time doing housekeeping than being a nurse...........

I've had housekeeping walk in on me and give that "look", you know, the one that says "You wouldn't catch me me doing that for a ton of money....and then walk out of the room". LOL.

Nope, never worked in housekeeping or "environmental services", whatever they've renamed it these days.

However, I did make friends with this little old lady who cleaned the E/D when I worked there. She worked her fanny off & always had a big smile on her face.

I especially felt sorry about our bathroom she had to clean. Sometimes it was just unholy in that BR.