jlc

We supposedly go by aquity but that never holds up. If you have an empty bed you fill it up despite how many nurses are working. Days you have between 6 to 8 pts, evenings 7 to 9 and nights 8 to 10. Days and evenings you have a unit clerk and two aides, nights usually one aide. You run the whole time and the new nurses usually don't last. Who cares if the pay is ok, it is the work load that gets you.

Nurses need to stick together, when a nurse calls out for help, then help should be given. If you see a nurse sinking then you should step in and help out. Nurses do at times "kill their young". They seem to feel that since it was rough on them when they started out, why care about the new nurses. or for that matter even about their fellow co-workers. This does not say that you should ignor a situation that is harmful to a patient. Patient safety should always come first and formost, but it seems to me that if nurses where more willing to be their for each other in tough situations, there would be less need "to rat on a nurse". JJ

Once again the sole focus is to punish the "offender". The nurse that dared to be sick on a weekend. How can nursing ever hope to recruit new nurses into nursisng with this kind on mentality. If there is a pattern then by all means punish the offenders, but for gosh sakes don't punish everybody. Why not try to make working weekends more attractive. At my hospital they use to pay 2/1-2 pay for working extra weekend shifts. And never had a problem geeting nurses to work extra shifts. Now the nurses must work extra weekends with no compensation, even to having split shifts on weekends. No wonder nurses call off sick. After all even"nurses" have a life outside of the hospital. Please there needs to be some compassion shown by management or the nursing shortage will just keep getting worse. jlc