ACoalsonRN

I think facilities know what is going on with another facility in a community,especially a facility that is in trouble. As for why you are leaving, just write that you have ethical issues with that place. If anything it makes you look honest and people would understand you leaving a place with such problems. I respect your integrity. If your current employer is contacted, what are they going to do: fire you? If that is the case, go right to the unemployment office as they would have not fired you for just cause and you would get your unemployment. Also a prospective employer can only confirm dates of employment with your current employer. My guess: go out and submit applications. You will get a job offer before your next workday.

I work ICU registry and in the ER so I see both sides of things. When I ony worked the floor I wasn't very sympathetic to ER but since I have worked there more, I see how frustrating the whole "getting a bed and calling report" thing can be. Many times we don't get notified that the bed is ready until the end of the shift, which can be hours afte the bed was assigned. As a floor nurse, you could let the ER know that when the bed is ready instead of waiting for that info to go through all of the channels. As an ER nurse, you could check with the floor directly to see if the bed is ready and just hasn't been noted that way in the computer. One thing I could usually work out with the floor nurse is that I would wait the few minutes it would take for the next nurse to get there but then give her report before they start in on report and then I would give them that 30 minutes before taking up the patient. Since I do work both sides, I can get into the floor's computer program and do something nice like put in the med list or something like that. It akes me about 5 minutes and it is one less thing that the floor has to do. That also eases any frustration for the floor when I tell them they have one less thing to do.

I volunteered one week at a small church camp in MO. This is the second year I went to that camp. In 2007 (my first year there), I saw that the medications were on an open shelf and the nurse cabin was also unlocked. I went to the caretaker for the camp and got locks for the cabin and a cabinet for the meds. I was shocked that anyone would find the unlocked meds and unlocked cabin acceptable. I had been at a camp in IN previously and they were heavily regulated. This year-2008, when I went there, there was not a lock on the cabin door and the medications were also back out on the open shelf. I talked with the camp caretaker again said I would check out MO laws governing camps. I can't find a thing! Does anyone know anything about camp laws in Jefferson county MO?