Nurses Humilated - Illinois

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Specializes in Critical Care.
If you're going to make me wear googles and earplugs to simulate being elderly I need my cane. So I can bop you in the head.

Best response yet! Made me LMAO! Thanks!

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Specializes in Med-Tele; ED; ICU.
Or...just walk out!!! I'd have to be on the brink of homelessness to put up with such treatment at a place of employment.
Nah, I'd just take the money and pee on the floor. Or even better, pee on the leg of one of the suits mandating this BS, just as I had a patient pee into the ankle pocket of my Aviators.
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The only time I have ever personally encountered something like this was way back in nursing school. On the very first day of instruction, we were lined up, and told to stick out our arms. Our instructors walked by and put a piece of transpore/micropore tape on the hairiest part of each of our arms. Then they told us to take it off, and try to make it as painless as possible. That was as close to this as I have ever come, and that was an extremely valuable lesson, as it taught me how to take off a piece of tape without giving the patient an inadvertent wax job in the process. There was no humiliation involved, though, and certainly no wagging of fingers.

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Specializes in ED,Ambulatory.

Just retired from nursing and this type of abusive corporate healthcare. So glad, so glad, so glad. 34 years of intimidation, bullying and only devolution in status of nurses. And then we're told how "respected" we are and given a pen and cupcakes for Nurses' Week!

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Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
That is awful. Who on earth thought that was a good idea? Not being allowed to urinate? Just wow.

I kind of understand what somebody was trying to do, put the employees in the shoes of the patients, but the execution of that was horrendous. That is most certainly not the approach to take.

Im guessing that hospital is not a nice place to work at to begin with. Their employee satisfaction is probably low, which translates to patient satisfaction being low. This hospital administration has no clue how to fix their problem. I would think the CEO there needs to start fresh with new administration and work from there.

I think they need to clean house from the top down. That CEO is brainless. And instead of fixing their substandard staffing problem, they actually pile more on the nurses. Training? Learning to empathize with patients? That's done in nursing school.

I think the boot camp for admin is a splendid idea.

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Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
When they put the alarm system in our breakroom so there was no escape from the lights, I thought why don't they put the alarms in their own offices! Surprised they didn't put an alarm system in our bathroom as well!

Why have an alarm in the bathroom that no one gets to use?

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Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
A nurse after my own heart. :inlove: That was exactly what I was going to say.

I keep saying: if we all got better at standing up for ourselves and each other, it would be a lot harder for management to pull this crap.

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Specializes in Psych,LTC,.

Not to mention not giving them time to eat or urinate for 12 hours. and have a couple of docs and administrators yell at them for 12 hrs.

Or maybe they should have a boot camp for patients when they are well. Let them see what it's like to take care of 6-8 (or more) often demanding patients. Then throw a code in and see how they handle that. The public really has no idea what we do.

ETA: Ask the ladies of The View what happens when you piss off a bunch of nurses. It usually doesn't work out to well for you.

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.
When they put the alarm system in our breakroom so there was no escape from the lights

Hmm...I've read on the DoL website that the unpaid break must be uninterrupted. It gets interrupted, the employer must pay for the 30 min. You all may want to look into that. Sounds like a lot of your breaks (all?) might be interrupted. Or at least if this is brought up, maybe the thought of owing all this extra pay might give management 2nd thoughts about this being a good idea?

Why have an alarm in the bathroom that no one gets to use?

Please...for the love of our kidneys (and our self respect) can we cease and decsist with the no-time-to-pee? Even in jest? I get we're busy, but we can ignore the world for the 60 seconds it takes to pee.

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Nurses are understaffed and overworked......why can't management get this?

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Specializes in Psych/Corrections.

I would never had participated-and I certainly would have obtained a lawyer. Let the job search begin!

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Specializes in Private Duty Pediatrics.
administration at this hospital felt that it was important to educate a nurse that a hearing-impaired person has difficulty hearing, and that a vision-impaired person has difficulty seeing???? By wearing goggles and earplugs the nurses are supposed to suddenly have that Eureka moment when they finally understand that some people have problems seeing and hearing??? That is so insulting.

I don't think anyone who works with patients is confused as to whether laying on a bedpan for longer than necessary is uncomfortable. of course we know it is!!! I've never known anyone to intentionally leave anyone sitting on one of those things longer than they have to and I do understand that sometimes it is longer than we'd want but can't be helped. The whole boot camp thing of having a nurse sit on a bedpan to show her it's uncomfortable is beyond insulting.

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Extra Pickles is right. So right.

I would like to know what problem the hospital administration was trying to solve, and why they thought the cause was lack of empathy on the part of the nurses.

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