Kaiser California-Bellflower(soon to be Downey)

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I just finished, actually leaving for a medical emergency, contract at Kaiser Bellflower, in CA. After interviewing with Nurse Finders for 45min, getting the job at Kaiser Sunset, 3 days before fly time, they canceled my contract and said "they over interviewed" They sent my file on to Bellflower to compensate? East of Long Beach area.

It was awful! I was one of the only Caucasian persons working most days and they treat you terribly! They are just starting to warm up to me and ask me if I need help, this past few shifts!! They sit around and talk while you run your ass off! They float you like crazy, although, I was lucky because the unit I was in really needed me. (being one of the few ICU trained nurses on a step down) They floated all the DOU (step down) to ICU and all the floor nurses floated to DOU and they are not capable of taking gtts and vents and they are in over their heads! Unsafe environment, nobody cares. You serve and feed all your patients, no care techs! The management and supervisors really don't acknowledge you. They will call you at 10pm at night to ask something about charting! They won't pay you for anytime you worked past your 12 hours, which happened half of my contract! They want you to have a DAY supervisor sign it and approve it, when they are gone at 2030??! You are suppose to call for help throughout the day to prevent this. Whatever! So, I will never work Kaiser again, after 7 years of ICU travel nursing. FYI, don't go to the DOU at Kaiser Bellflower. Most of the nurses are not nice, you are busy as hell and nobody helps you unless your pt is ready for intubation or crashing and when you are gowned in a room and your pt is laying in a huge code brown, asking for help gets you a response like, "what does she need in there?" (talking to another nurse, thinking I can't hear her) REALLY!! You got the jest of it!