I was Hoping Someone Might Help Me with a School Assignment and Take a Breif Survey

PostOpPrincess, BSN, RN · Oct 5, 2009

Shift that you work:

4/10 hours - start at 8

Full Time or Part Time:

FTE

Company Name:

Baptist Health Systems

Best Aspect of Your Job:

Fast Pace/Great Autonomy

Worst Aspect of Your Job:

Extreme Acuity of patients that come in as "A.M. admit." Makes you wonder how these people survive on a daily basis.

Is your facility For-Profit or Not-for-Profit:

Not for Profit

What kind of facility You Work In:

500 plus beds/Going to be a teaching hospital soon/So-So in technological advancements

Best Thing about your Facility/ Company:

They never lay people off; if their positions get eliminated, they train them. Example: LPNs were phased out, they were given 5 years to get their RN licenses. No loss in pay, no loss in investiture.

Describe the Chain of Command:

VP/Director/Manager/Assistant Manager/Staff

Breif Description of Your Daily Routine:

I can have multiple patients of different age populations--anywhere from 8 to 12 patients in a post-anesthesia setting. Acuity levels vary and there is no "predicting" how patients will react to surgery/anesthesia/or both. What can be a "just a port insertion" can turn out to be a very, very sick person.

Anything else you would like to add:

I LOVE my work. Requires very fast assessment skills, assertive communication skills and the ability to recognize the continuum of anesthesia/narcotics. Very specific skills very few people have. It's always like figuring out a puzzle under a time constraint. LOVE IT.

bscn_rn_10_years · Oct 5, 2009

name:

pass

shift that you work:

i work a combination of days and evenings in an er department, 8 hours

full time or part time:

part time or a 0.8 (out of fulltime which is 1.0)

company name:

alberta health services

best aspect of your job:

the team that i work with, they are the people who i would trust with my life.

worst aspect of your job:....

sometimes the patients can be horrible. i have been kicked, punched, spit at, swore at called waitress or "servant"....

is your facility for-profit or not-for-profit:

in canada we have public healthcare .

what kind of facility you work in:

hospital er department

best thing about your facility/ company:

nothing

describe the chain of command:

there is a ceo who runs the show and if he knew that i was talking to you he would probably fire me or dismiss me from work.....we have a gag order that has recently been initiated to ahs employees.

breif description of your daily routine:

assessment (subjective) then assessment (objectively) vitals, oxygen (if needed) iv insertion, ecg interpretation, medications, health teaching, discharge....repeat.....

anything else you would like to add:

with all of the above stated.... i love being a nurse. i would pick a different area to live in though, maybe a different country.. i couldn't imagine being anything else. i had a patient return to the er department and tell me that he lived because i wouldn't give up and let the doctor just send him home but to continue to do more test, and they find that he had an 80 percent occlusion in the rca and now that he has a stent he is a new man........there is nothing better than doing what you were trained to do.......

Vito Andolini · Oct 5, 2009

hi,
i am a nursing student and am working on a project for school. this project requires us to breifly interview someone working in the career that we are pursuing (which would be an rn in my case) about their job duties and what a typical day is like. and then, i must write an essay including the information from the interview plus other info i have researched. i've tried to call many nursing homes and no one wants to give me the time of day. my assignment is due on wednesday. so, if somebody could help me i would be very grateful. if anyone is interested, you can either reply to this message, pm me, or email [email protected] with the following info:
if there is any info that you don't feel comfortable giving me, just skip over that one!
name: vito andolini, rn, bsn
shift that you work: evenings
full time or part time: ft
company name: blank but it's a very big, famous, teaching hospital
best aspect of your job: the shift is my preference; close to home; great pay; decent benefits;
worst aspect of your job: don disrespects bedside nurses, only there for her pay, no real concern for patients or staff as best most of us can see; she has been away from the bedside way too long and has forgotten basic nursing skills and facts; says her door is open but it is not;
is your facility for-profit or not-for-profit: for profit
what kind of facility you work in: general hospital
best thing about your facility/ company: not sure - maybe the variety of types of nursing it offers? peds, obgyn, ms, clinics, psych in and outpt, er, or, icu's of every description, and skilled nursing; plus, i think the sky is the limit on my ability to advance in rank and i can choose the bedside path or the admin path; there are volunteers and students and i enjoy students (med, rn, lpn, pt, resp t, speech t, dental/oral surgery, health care admin) and house staff; they keep me young and keep me up to date on the latest in every field. plus, i get to participate in developing our future nurses, docs, therapists, etc. there's great tuition reimbursement, too - up to 9 hours per semester as long as you keep a b average. reasonable commitment to work at the hospital after you graduate, too; there is an rn union and we have a good strong voice on the nursing practice committee, the ethics committee, and a couple of other committees. there is no mandatory overtime.
describe the chain of command: aide; staff nurse; charge nurse; adon; don (don is part of admin, supposedly equal to coo;
breif description of your daily routine: count controlleds, get report, make assignment, make rounds, pour meds, give them, finish lots of orders left over from day shift and new ones made by late-rounding docs, chart, do more meds, do treatments, more charting, final check to see that there are no unfinished orders, round q 1 hour, give report, count off, handle any emergencies, which occur at least once per shift; if there is a med nurse, i don't have to do the counts or meds but manage to keep busy somehow with doing subordinates' evals, going to meetings, doing admits or
discharges, putting together reuired meetings i have to hold, doing chart
reviews, and a million other things, such as cleaning up after people who leave their dinner dishes lying around and even seeing patients and their visitors more;
anything else you would like to add:
thank you! i really appreciate any help i can get and would like to hear from as many nurses as possible! if there is anything at all that you would like to share, even if it's not on here, please do. thanks again!
-caitlin

good luck, caitlin.

nkochrn, RN · Oct 5, 2009

name: nichole

shift that you work: 4pm-4am

full time or part time: full time

company name: nvch

best aspect of your job: i get to see a large variety of patients and do many different types of nursing without being limited to any one specialty

worst aspect of your job: because of the small community we know many of our patients personally and may have to see our own loved ones as they come into er.

is your facility for-profit or not-for-profit: for profit

what kind of facility you work in: rural 25 bed hospital

best thing about your facility/ company:

describe the chain of command: nurse-supervisor-don-administrator

breif description of your daily routine: take report and get assignments, assess patient, pass meds and do treatments mostly at 1700 and 2000, if a patient comes to er we are responsible for assessing them and caring for them also. if an ob patient comes in then one of the rn's cares for her and the other rn helps at delivery. chart whenever you have time. at night there is also some other little busy work that we do to. after 10pm there are 3 nurses in the building and no one else besides patients. ideally we have 2 rn's and an lpn.

anything else you would like to add:

rghbsn, BSN, RN · Oct 5, 2009

Name:

Robert Hector

Shift that you work:

12 hour nights. 3 shifts per week required. Usually work 4 or 5.

Full Time or Part Time:

Full time

Company Name:

New Hanover Regional Medical Center

Best Aspect of Your Job:

Flying, transporting. Diverse patients, diverse illnesses. Autonomy. Strong co-workers and team atmoshpere.

Worst Aspect of Your Job:

Don't always get off on time. Tonight is a great example, LOL.

Is your facility For-Profit or Not-for-Profit:

Not-for-profit

What kind of facility You Work In:

Regional medical center, level 2 trauma center. Seperate pediatric/women's hospital with NICU, PICU.

Best Thing about your Facility/ Company:

Great opportunity to develop as a nurse and leader. Good job security.

Describe the Chain of Command:

Charge person, shift supervisor, manager/chief transport nurse, director, chief/VP, CEO.

Breif Description of Your Daily Routine:

Check off truck or aircraft (depends on the place I'm working), correct or replace anything that is not right on check off sheet. Call dispatch if in charge to find out about pending calls/transports, do computer-based learning objectives for the month, practice invasive lines/intubations, wash vehicles/station clean up.

Anything else you would like to add:

The diversity nursing provides is incredible. I have worked in ICU's, the Emergency Dept., trauma team, and now critical care transport/flight. If I want to do something else in a few years I can go into management, get my master's in administration, become a nurse practitioner, go to CRNA school to do anesthesia...it's nearly limitless. I love the work I do and the job security that comes with it.

caliotter3 · Oct 5, 2009

Name: Blank

Shift: Night (11pm-7am)

Full Time

Company Name: Blank

Best Aspect of Job: Able to devote full attention and energy to one patient.

Worst Aspect of Job: Can be out of work in the blink of an eye and may take weeks to get another case. Occasional unreasonable demands made by family members of patients.

For Profit

Kind of Facility: Home Health Agency

Best Thing about Company: Provides me with work when four other employers can't seem to come up with a shift for me.

Chain of Command: Nursing Supervisor, Director of Clinical Services

Daily Routine: Receive report from off-going nurse or parent. Assess patient and check equipment. Start shift requirements for medications and treatments ordered for night time administration. Observe patient for change of condition or problems with ventilator. Give report to parent or oncoming nurse in morning at end of shift.

Other: Home health care is excellent for a change of pace for nurses who burn out doing stressful hospital work, older nurses who want to slow down a little, or any nurse who just feels better about being able to give the best of care and establish long-standing positive relationships when they only have to deal with one patient instead of many.

Tait, MSN, RN · Oct 5, 2009

shift that you work: 7p-7a

full time or part time: fte

company name: catholic health east system

best aspect of your job: scheduling flexibility, patient interaction, though provoking, problem solving.

worst aspect of your job: lateral violence.

is your facility for-profit or not-for-profit: nfp

what kind of facility you work in: hospital

best thing about your facility/ company: magnet status. catholic hospital chaplains (i am not a very relgious person, but our chaplains are a m a z i n g! love them.

describe the chain of command: ceo, cno, service line head, manager, rn's. having magnet also brings a lot more responsibility to the floor in governance.

brief description of your daily routine: report, meds, charting, patient care, chart checks, reading progress notes, charge nurse duties (staffing, patient assignments, helping other nurses).

anything else you would like to add: nursing is a wonderful profession, full of progressive opportunity if you choose it, or stable day-to-day. please pass along to your classmates that clinicals and school are "experience" they need to list on resumes! never forget all the wonderful patient populations, tasks, procedures and patient scenarios you have experienced in school!!

deleern · Oct 5, 2009

Shift that you work: day shift 8 to 5 one weekend a month

Full Time or Part Time: full time plus

Company Name: pmcc

Best Aspect of Your Job: Great Autonomy, Great Hours,

Worst Aspect of Your Job: Replacing staff Call ins.

Is your facility For-Profit or Not-for-Profit: Not for Profit

What kind of facility You Work In: Skilled LTC. 68 bed facility

Best Thing about your Facility/ Company: newer Facility,great Hours

Describe the Chain of Command: Board of Directors, Administrator, DON, Charge RN, LPN,

Breif Description of Your Daily Routine: Charge RN, Rounds/assessments, Report, Calls out to MDs. Address staffing Issues, receive Dr orders/process orders, reviewing Care Plans. afternoon rounds, staffing.

Anything else you would like to add: