martymoose

How are you affording it ?its got to be at least a 50 percent cut in pay?but maybe sanity can be worth it if you. Can afford it.

Thank you very much Nurse Beth. It is very helpful to get someone else's perspective when all I see is the "brick wall". I should utilize the EAP, and a financial planner. The anxiety of the job is almost making me not function. And the discord between the company and the union currently is only making it worse. Thank you for the insight.

Im glad that pt was able to validate your work. Everytime I want quit , that kind of situation happens(validation) , and I hang on a little longer. But I am officially done( unfortunately I don't care what a pt says)For the last 6 months on average our imcu/pcu has been having take 7 to 9, sometimes 10 patients a piece with drips , pacer wires chest tubes,bipap , restraints, tavrs(who always bleed).days and nights. my days are definitely not worth it anymore.and my license says its not worth it either ?

Due to rediculous staffing ratios8-10 pts on a intermediate care unit with cardiac drips, temp pacers, tavrs , pci, etc I want out! I've applied to non staff jobs with some interviews and no luck. I think its because I've been doing the other for over 10 years. No one wants to teach an older person anything new? Im very very willing to learn, but seems thats not good enough. I don't want to travel more than an hour , which makes things difficult( I already travel 1 hr) that would mean picking up and moving after paying on house for 21 years.it would be different if I was younger. what do you do ? Id love to actually do c a non nursing job , but cant live on 20 bucks an hour, at least here in nys.?

Is there a way to see what a potential employer would see on a background check? And I take tramadol at hs for back pain ( from pain mgmt MD) will that prevent me from getting a new job ?

Id like to know which mcd’s pays more than 15 bucks an hour????sign me up!(actually worked 3 yrs for them in the 80’s) LOL

We have them on our stepdown / pcu floors. Would not see that on a m/sfloor

Is your unit made up of more travelers than house staff? I know of a unit that is probably 10 percent house staff and 90 percent travelers.

Congratulations!? I hope to be in your shoes someday!

Not ICU, but imcu/pcu and we are getting 7 pts a piece days eves and nights

{quote] Caring for patients with devastating long hauler syndrome Maintaining a high standard of care without adequate staffing, supplies and other resources Working routine overtime because of your own personal responsibility to support your peers Facing the words “there is no one”, “you’ll have to make do” and “you have no choice” when asking the house supervisor for additional help No pay increase in the past 18 months Hope that disappears when large numbers of new hires resign within the first 4 weeks Frequent floating with high nurse patient ratios Alarming number of rapid response calls and code blues [/quote] I'm with you on this . my place got rid of a float pool 2 yrs ago. Everyone's leaving. People floated each shift Robbing Peter to pay Paul If I wanted to float Id join a float pool!! It makes me so angry that they use us to fill the holes, while making our own floor short and stressed, which leads to more quitting. We have a few travelers. Most do not return - they say the ratios are ridiculous. Many of the people leaving are going to travelling- if I have to float, might as well get paid for it!!

Congratulations on the job.

I realize those jobs exist , it seems that theres more applicants than jobs ? Ill keep trying but we only have two listings where im at right now...

Absolutely not happy where I work . They changed our ratios from 4 pts on days to 7 . It's just too much. Cardiac stepdown . I've never wanted to quit a job so bad

Is anyone noticing that it seems very difficult to find non patient care jobs? Almost every nurse I work with is trying to “get out” and we hear that request everyday from other nurses in the company too. Anyone else having this problem ? Was hoping not to waste the degree, but may have to to get out of patient care. Have applied, but then never hear anything back Any hope ? Is it maybe regional?

Just saw a job for a rehab nurse. I honestly don't know what that entails as an RN , but I guess its worth a try to find out. If not , then Ill try harder to pursue a non clinical job. I just might have to realize I have to drive even farther. Those types of jobs are in an area that the clientele is “well to do” . No way I could live in that area. Ugh I hate driving an hour each way . I guess one has to decide which is worse. Right now direct patient care is worse. Thanks for all the support. ?

Thank you JBMmom.I hope there is improvement. I am going in tonight- 11-7 tends to be floated ( even if were short, they have all these overflow floors running) and I actually hope I do get floated. At least Ill have 10 med/surg pts and not PCU pts.

Nope , we even tried this- like 40 bucks an hour more. Even that doesn't help. Everyone is exhausted. And burnt. And kind of hard to do when you're working all 3 shifts in one week.

we used to have this. Once Covid started hitting, they ended it. Not sure if it was coincidence or not. It was great when they had it; we had some regulars that were wonderful. Now they are all assigned permanently to floors ( and not mine ; they got to pick, if that tells you anything , LOL.

I'm interested in hearing what other acute care hospitals do when they have have holes in staffing, such as same day call ins, or shortages of staff that don't allow for proper scheduling? Where do you get staff from? What does California do when they don't have staff? Where do they get them from? Are there same day agencies? What Kind of lead time do they need? Can it be done with 2 hour notice? I know some hospitals have "in house supplemental staffing" but my place ended that program. So if some one calls out, tough crap. Are there a lot of mandatory overtimes in acute care? Do people quit because of that then, as how are you supposed to care for children and pets if you are at work and have no other means(no neighbors, etc.) Just some questions in trying to make sense of the lack of staffing. which is one of the most common threads I'm seeing ,

Union is very frowned upon where I am (it will never happen) and they get away with the staffing thing cause they know theres some slobs like e who have everything at stake if they lose this job . Like lose your house , your insurance, your ability to get rehired if youre old but too young to retire.

Thank you JBMmom MSN . Thats was very kind.

Aldis and costco are starting at around 16 bucks an hour. At least in retail no ones life is at stake, or license on the line. ?hmmmmm

No not really . One post stemi, nstemi, hypernatremia in the 160 range, IV mag supplements, new chf'ers, covid, rapid a fib, etc. One doesnt make this stuff up. and 3 of them were ED admits at the beg of shift within a 2 hour span. Its OK , I get the gist this is my fault for staying on.If I am stupid enough t o accept such an assignment, I'm just the dumb one for not quitting and finding something else. And its clear employer doesn't give a rats *** for its employees or the patients. We are constantly told cant hold things up for staffing ( lack of). Our normal ratio now is 1:7