RNforhire07

Those steth socks were outlawed at one hospital I worked at as they said it was an infection control issue........ I've had my Littmann Master Cardio scope for almost 3 yrs now...Works like a champ! I've tried others and nothing compares to a Littmann imho!

Too bad office nursing doesn't pay as well as hospital nursing..at least in my area I'd be forced to take a 10 dollar/hr pay cut!! And yes....not only are we expected to kiss the butt of the patient but we have to kiss the family's butt as well......in my facility once 8pm rolls around, I go around room to room and ask visitors to leave...the patient isn't on vacation for pete's sake!! LEAVE! You got THAT right! I was fired two yrs ago for something minor....no allegations were EVER brought against my nursing license but since the firing facility has me listed as DO Not Hire, I am blackballed from every other hospital in a 50 mile radius!! NOT FAIR! Honestly, I'd rather drive a truck! Or a jitney at GE where my DH's niece is getting paid as much as I do. Me, an RN with 10 yrs experience, certification in my area of specialty (CCRN), ACLS, PALS and this girl gets paid the same amt of $$ to drive a jitney around for 8 hrs with BETTER BENEFITS, WEEKENDS OFF, HOLIDAYS OFF and TWO WEEKS paid vacation in the summertime!

I know what you mean.......I was fired almost TWO yrs ago and am having a heck of a time finding another job at a decent facility. Add another person to the HATE Nursing crowd!

I posted here about a month ago regarding my job woes....being fired from one facility for giving two prn meds together (xanax and restoril) and how here it is almost TWO yrs later and I can't even get an interview at other local hospitals.....I've been an RN for over 10 yrs now, have my BSN and CCRN certification with ACLS and PALS certification and yet no one will hire me. So today I got another email from my hometown hospital stating thanks but no thanks for the online application I put in for a F/T night position in their ICU. And a week ago, we had a vent pt in our unit...fairly unstable as pt was extremely anxious and nothing was touching the pt sedation wise...we dont use diprivan in our facility since the pulmonologist doesn't know much about it--or so he told a co-worker.. Anyhow, a fellow RN was left ALONE in the ICU with this patient and the pt self-extubated TWICE for this nurse!! AND THEY still wouldn't allow the CNA to come back to the unit. She begged them for help and they wouldn't give her any!!!! AAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH! I can't take it anymore. Moving is not an option.....I don't really want to go agency....but I am really getting to the end of my rope here.

It's not a good one.....I've been rejected (yet again) by my hometown hospital...got the final thanks but no thanks email today on the 2nd position I put in an online application for last month........still haven't heard anything back on the online application I placed four weeks ago at a facility where I worked 6 yrs ago...but I'd think I would have at LEAST been called for an interview in 4 weeks and especially since I sent my old asst head nurse a "hello" card.. That's ok....They don't pay all that well and I am SURE I'd take a pay cut to go there even if it would be closer for me and I really couldn't afford to take another pay cut. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Woe is me....they STILL continue to do UNSAFE things where I work....left a coworker ALONE in ICU with a pt on a vent who was unstable because she was EXTREMELY anxious and our facility doesn't use DIPRIVAN as the pulmonologist doesn't know much about it:o Pt extubated herself TWICE for this nurse!!!! And they STILL did not get my coworker any help as they pulled the other RN and our CNA to another unit!!!!!!! Like I said in my previous posts....moving is NOT an option....... But if this stuff keeps up, I may need to start looking into the LTC facilities in my area since I can't get hired at ANY other hospital in a 50 mile radius!

My badge has my picture on it, the name of my facility with logo, my full name, title and department. I cover up my last name.....and have two pins with RN and CCRN on them......no one has said anything to me about having my last name covered on my badge and my credentials, I earned those and PROUDLY display them on my badge. My facility has a contract with the local state prison so that's the big reason why I keep my last name covered.

That is what I get too at my current place....

Like I've said earlier, moving is not an option.....I've got a child and a spouse....The ONLY other areas I'd consider moving to are ER or OB and my current manager is the boss of OB.....I have also heard from other people here that they won't allow people to transfer from one unit to another:o So, until I get an interview and a job offer somewhere....I guess I'll stick it out. I like most of my coworkers, and that's a good thing right??

Thanks....anyplace I've interviewed I have explained the situation that led to me being fired.....all managers seemed OK with it but I don't get hired because once their HR dept calls that employer, they're told I am not eligible for rehire and THAT is where I get screwed..... If I had thousands of dollars to pursue legal action against that place, believe me I would've sued em last year.....no one will take them on locally, I'd have to look to bigger cities....and even then, I doubt I'd get anywhere....I know of a nurse who was fired by this same place, she pursued legal actions and has spent up to $20,000 of her own money and has gotten NOWHERE!! I'm getting even more discouraged...

I could try to commute to Cleveland, OH but it is 80 miles from where I live so the commute would be about 90 minutes to two hours.....don't want to drive that far in the winter, kwim? I got an email from a place where I applied online and it said, thanks but no thanks---excellent credentials...pursuing other applications......BUT I still have an active app for the same position but on night shift? I haven't heard from the place where I started out my nursing career but another RN I work with who put in an app with them the same day I did has been hounded by them to come in for an interview... ANd this Am I was reprimanded by an IM resident for TURNING DOWN A PT's O2 since pt was satting 100% on her current setting and pt is a COPDer C02 retainer!!!!!! GIVE ME A BREAK....yet said resident did NOT know what BIPAP was and I had to explain it to him yet I get scolded for adjusting 02! BUT I can titrate levophed, dopamine, nitroprusside which COULD kill someone? But I can't turn down 02??? WHATEVER!! :angryfire YEt ANOTHER reason why I want out of the place I am in!!! If I can't think independently then I KNOW this place is NOT for me to spend the rest of my nursing career!!

Thanks all for your support.......like I said, relocating is just NOT an option for me as I've got a family and a mortgage so relocating is out. Got an email today from one of the hospitals that I had submitted an online application for an ICU position on day shift at a small ICU in my own hometown......it basically said, thanks but no thanks.....meanwhile, I also submitted an online app for the same hospital's ICU for night shift and it said application still active.....so maybe there's some hope? I also submitted an application to the hospital where I began my nursing career 10 yrs ago....I've heard nothing, yet another nurse with whom I work who also submitted her application the same day has been hounded by them to come in for an interview, yet I continue to get NO response...... AND GET THIS! This morning I was repirmaned by the IM resident for TURNING THE OXYGEN DOWN ON A CO2 RETAINING COPD PT SINCE the PT WAS satting 100% on the current 02 setting! Yet I had to explain to the nitwit about BIPAP and what the settings mean and all that???? YET ANOTHER reason why I want out of this place so badly!!!! If I can't even turn down 02--it's a dRUG you know- then this is NOT a place for me when I can't even THINK independently. ANywhere else I've ever worked, if I hadn't turned down the pt's oxygen, I caught hayl for it! I JUST CAN'T WIN!!

That is actually an OSHA policy, I do believe. I know at my place we are not supposed to have any food or drink in the patient care areas and that includes the nurses station......they don't really enforce it though. We only hide our drinks/food if the DON, CEO or Chief Dr is around as they are all sticklers for that rule. And of course we hide stuff if the Dept of Health or JCAHO is around as well.

Your coworker is right on!! I've worked in four different hospitals now and nursing administrators are pretty much ALL Devils Spawn!! Where I am at now, a small community 135 bed hospital, the DON could care LESS about our staffing or lack thereof. I am frequently left alone in the ICU with one patient while the other scheduled RN is either on-call or out "floating" elsewhere in the facility. Our nurse aide/ward clerk is frequently floated out of the ICU leaving 2 nurses to care for up to 6 patients. All the DON cares about is the bottom line...$$$ And our manager doesn't give a hoot about the issues that need addressed in the ICU since she's too busy putting out fires in the OB dept since she's the manager of that unit as well....we are basically running the ICU on our own.... I'm fed up and hopefully won't have to put up with the stuff much longer

BTT Any one else have any advice for me?? I have not heard anything from the applications that I put out last week.

Also, I don't want to make waves at my current job because obviously I've got a mortgage and a child to feed like most people do. And if I were to get fired from this current place.....well, it would REALLY look bad, kwim?