pediatric urgent care- big mistake!! Worst place for nurses!!

[bklynpedsRN]

Hey all, So I need to rant.. a couple of years ago I was hired as a full-time nurse for the only pediatric urgent center here in Brooklyn,NY. BIG MISTAKE!!. What a waste of my time. This company was not fair to the nurses. The hours were awful 4pm to midnight, not the usual 12 hour 3 days a week schedule that we're used too. The salary was absolute crap. We were never given time and half holiday pay or any overtime, and believe me I've put in plenty of overtime, for what NOTHING!!..There was no housekeeping so we would be the ones to have to remove the garbage from the rooms, sweep and mop.. They staffed the office with the laziest people. The medical assistants are so lazy, they never wanted to do anything. The nurse is in charge of the flow and when we delegate tasks the response I would get from the MAs is sucking teeth. The medical director was a real piece of work. He is the biggest jerk Ive ever met. This place was an absolute joke.

Thank you for letting me rant, ahhh I feel better.

[FlyingScot, RN]

I hope you don't still work there because you've given enough information that if your manager sees this you might find yourself out of a job.

[BeachsideRN, ASN]

Did you not know the schedule, salary or expected duties when you accepted the position? ::

[bklynpedsRN]

FlyingScot, no I don't work there anymore as of this past summer. A whole surge of nurses up and quit because they are not fair to the nurses. They lost a whole bunch of great quality nurses. Their loss.

[bklynpedsRN]

OnOn2RN, they were very misleading. When I was first hired, they said the schedule for the nurses will be noon-midnight but then they turned around and changed it just so to save a few pennies so they wouldn't have to put in a per diem nurse. Which meant i would have to work 5 days in order to keep my full time status. As far as expected duties, the woman I interviewed with was ver vague as to what was expected from the nurses. Once they have you reeled in then they throw all "work" on the nurses and it not work that we should be doing like picking up the trash cans from the rooms. Sorry I didn't go to school for that.

[OldDude]

I've worked at a pediatric urgent care as a pool nurse for about 10 years; I work about 4 shifts per month. Although the working conditions are polar opposite of what you described it is a high volume, fast paced, grueling job, in a much abused facility.... financed by the taxpayers. I have the most years of continuous service at this facility. We have yet to keep any full time staff for any significant time period - including management. Seldom does anyone last more than a year. So, even under the best conditions pedi urgent care is a tough one.