I am 8 months into my nursing career. I started on a pretty heavy med surg floor at a large, well known hospital. Since starting this job in February, I have not once felt like the managers were professional. I would say 75% of the people on our floor do not like management. I am just curious if this is how hospital nursing is, or if there really is an issue with the way they run things. For example, they OBSESS over call light numbers, if we don't meet goal, our unit director will say things like "wow y'all suck!" even if we tell her we got slammed with admissions, etc. They are having us round at 3 am to purposefully wake our patients up and say things like "Let's go to the restroom while I am here." so they don't call out to go and make our call light numbers go up. (We already round, but they are wanting to us to wake up our patients up.) So much so, they have contacted Lab and told their manager to quit having the lab techs press the call light for us to pause the IV pump.
Other things they do is only schedule staff meetings or required meetings at 8 or 9 am. They will stop us in the hallway on our way out in the morning to do evaluations which causes us to stay late. It seems disrespectful to night shifters to keep them late consistently like they do. They will text you and call you during the day knowing you are sleeping from the shift before. From what I have heard from other float nurses is that we are the only floor out of about 12+ floors that does morning and evening huddles where both shifts are required to go. That in itself is not bad, but they will call you until you show up to huddle even if you are in the middle of doing something for your patients. The director and manager are there every morning in huddle and they typically last 25-35 minutes. So there will be nobody on the floor for 30 minutes in the mornings. Our evening huddles are a little shorter because the charge nurse runs it. Is this normal at at all?
Several other things occur on a daily basis. They will write you up for small things. Constant meetings and audits on everything you could possibly thing of. I could go on for days. It's very frustrating. I have worked at other hospitals as a PCT and even on my clinicals and when I have floated to other floors in the hospital, I have never seen things run this way. Float nurses will come to our floor and say they always hate coming here because we are the only floor that does things different, and they think our director is ridiculous, as well. Anyways, I am just fed up with walking on egg shells constantly. Sorry for the long post.
