duli03

We are usually the last place people go (Mayo clinic), we start by weaning people of the anti-epileptic drugs, we sleep deprive, photo stimulate, hyperventilate and exercise the patient in hopes of a seizure, patients sometimes stay well over a week. Some patients have grids/electrodes placed directly on the brain (surgery).

I am going to start a perioperative program in Feb. There are 6 of us starting and we are not required to pay any money back or agree to work for a specified period of time, although, at the end of the orientation we are not guaranteed a job in the OR, if they don't like us we are out. We have to sign a contract stating we agree to this. We also have to pay for our own books. :chair:

I don't think it will increase the risk of seizure, I currently work at a facility where we do long term EMU monitoring and we do siscom (a procedure that involves injecting an isotope during seizure) following injection the patient goes to MRI/Nuclear medicine for a brain scan, on occasion we have to put the patient under general anesthesia to keep these patients still so we can get a good image of the brain and pinpoint the focal point of the seizure.

We have not heard anything yet at the hospital I work at, Administration has not even mentioned it, they are probably trying to figure out the law themselves. I am very curious what they will do, they think there's a Nursing shortage Now? If they implement "STRAIGHT PAY FOR OT " then they will not have staff to work all the extral hours they so desperatly want us to work. It's a lose-lose situation for the both the hospitals and the RNs. The offending hospitals will not have nurses to staff their facility because many of us will not work for a hospital that implements such a shortsighted and foolish law. I will NOT now or in the future work OT for straight pay, we are underpaid as it is. The law seems murky at this point I am waiting to see what our facility does. I work for a great hospital, and I hope that they would rise above this new legislation, if in fact it targets RNs and our current rate of pay for overtime worked.

I try to leave on time but we have a huge amount of documentation at the hospital I work at, I would say I leave on time about 60% of the time and the other 40% of the time I may be an extra 15-30 minutes, usually its finishing documentation.