roseeRN

I used to work at St. Anthony's. If you do go to St. Anthony's, don't go to the telemetry unit. The nurses that work there are great, but the Nurse Manager makes it nearly impossible to do patient care. There has been more paperwork added to the already huge stack that has to be done. Personally, I like patient care more than the paperwork, but I know that everything needs to be documented. Also, report took place at 0700 and 1900. The Nurse Manager tried writing nurses up for not clocking out by 0707 in the morning and 1907 at night. That didn't last. When I was there, it seemed as though the Nurse Manager was just looking for someone to write up. Luckily, I stayed under the radar with my 8 telemetry patients on nights. If you do go to this unit, again, the nurses you would work with and the PCT's that you would work with are fantastic. And you would get a lot more education time in the beginning. I was greatful for my time there. I learned a lot. It was, to me, a bootcamp for nursing. Good luck.

I am sorry that this is happening, but as someone said earlier, it is mainly due to the poor economy. I am not an agency nurse, but the hospital I work for has decided not to take agency nurses at this time due to the budget. I loved our agency nurses. When all else failed, we always had an agency nurse to help out when we were short staffed. Now even the staff nurses are having shifts cancelled. I was cancelled one night just to be called in 2 hours later to come in and pick up the new admissions. I didn't understand why they would cancel me knowing we were going to picking up more patients, but I guess they have to go by the staffing grid. I hope things get better soon. I miss my agency nurses.

I work in a smaller hospital on the cardiac telemetry floor. About half of the patients that come in for a cardiac cath come to our floor to have their sheaths removed. We make sure the ACT is Best of Luck, Rosee