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Does anyone work (or have worked) at Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center? I can find out about the town/community, but I want to know about the hospital. Can anybody help?
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Where I am, if administration had there way - we nurses would get paid less and have more pt's. Our new interim DON made it known that she was going to change things and we would have 1:8 as a ratio. A Few of the doc's raised as much hell as they could for us and it got put on the back burner for now. It will happen though, just a matter of time. I pretty much let them know that I would not do it - it would be too unsafe. It's part of the reason that I am moving - to Arizona that is.
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I'm over here in NW Montana. Just got an AZ license and it took 3-4 wks. You should have NO trouble getting a job in AZ. I think I looked at almost all the hospitals in the state. Try looking at: http://www.theagapecenter.com/Hospitals/Arizona.htm - list of Arizona hospitals - not all of them. Also look at: http://www.city-data.com/forum/ - Can give you an idea about a community or hospital if you want to research it. Moving to Arizona in June. Getting flown down to one hospital that I am considering at the end of the month. If I can help, let me know. Good luck and hope you get to move!
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I currently work in a critical access hospital in Montana. 21 yrs exp and worked mostly ICU with a sprinkle of other nursing positions. Do ER at times here and YOU are it. If it were me, I would get into a large hospital, into the area you think you like. You will learn more in 6 months than you will in yrs at the critical access hospital. It's OK to start and fun at times, but your skills will go downhill. Do the small hospital for a year or so and try to get into something bigger. Don't let a big trauma ER frighten you. If you can find a place that will take you in and allow you to learn (and the staff to teach you), you will be able to do just about anything you want after a while. Just do what you think is right.
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What do I think about care plans - can't type it without using profanity. So I will be nice and hope my point got across.
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I work at a critical access hospital (25 beds). It can be anywhere from 3-8. Depends on what is going on in the hospital. If we have our ICU open, OB's, busy ER, you may end up with more than that. If you can't find someone to come in and help, you are just up the creek. Things are very disorganized here so it makes your job more difficult. Most of us stick together here which helps keep the management from dumping 8 pt's on us (8 pt's here would not work at all).
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I don't know much but I did apply at Yuma. I supposedly have an on-site visit coming up here soon (should find out in a week or two) to Yuma. We have a guy in RT that worked in Yuma a few years ago and says it's pretty good (people, environment, etc...). I was told when I interviewed that they take RN's (new grads) in critical areas which to me is a good thing ( I have 21yrs exp w/ most in critical care). Pay was about $5 more per hr (base - as compared to other places I talked to in AZ) and they do eve shift @10% - nights @ 15% diffs (I am a night person). I am in Montana and really have no idea but will move to Arizona this June somewhere. For me, I will physically have to go and look for myself to see if I am interested. Good luck
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I have been an RN for 21 yrs (in June) - starting out in ICU/CCU. Have worked other areas of the hospital setting (med-surg, ER, urology), home health, travel, agency, and as a correctional nurse. I am in a critical access hospital (25 beds) in NW Montana. The closest hospital is about 100 miles from here either east or west. It helps to have experience in a critical care setting because at least here there are few staff that have that expertise. If you start out in a larger hospital (preferably a "teaching" hospital), you will get a good baseline to be able to do pretty much anything you want to do. Trick is to find a big hospital that will take new grads and are willing to teach you. You will work your butt off, but you will learn more and much faster. I have been in quite a few hospitals and some as small as this one and you have to be aware of some drawbacks. You WILL lose alot of your skills that you have worked so hard to get. Politics will make you sick (unless you find a really good place that is run right). You will see a variety of patients. For me, I feel stagnant, I want some kind of challenge. Done this where I am for 6 yrs and I will be leaving in June. Remember that as a nurse, you can go do whatever you want. Just get some kind of critical care experience and it will make things easier for you in the long run.
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What really makes me angry about the hospital I work at is this. They say that we have to save money, not making enough (and for the past 4 months have stated that they were clearing about $800,000 - 900,000 a month) etc.... The number of managers pretty much equals the number of nurses here. They send (have a group of staff out right now) staff to the "Studer" training (which by the way costs $1200 a person - according to the studer site - not including the hotel and air travel, etc costs - 8 people). Then of course the nurses get hours cut, call, nurse to patient ratio goes up, patient satisfaction goes in the toilet. I could go on and on. Money is the focus here - NOT PATIENT CARE. The nurses here do a good job, but we can only do so much. I won't bend over and take it and will depart from this place shortly. I do my job because I CARE for my patients. When I don't have the things that I need to help take care of my patients - yeah, I get really ******. When the gods in management tie my hands behind my back, I don't like it and will move on to a greener pasture (or at least somewhere that does care about the people who pay their salary - the patient). I do have a choice and will use it when I feel it is necessary. Opinions are like *!?holes and we all have one. Some will agree and some won't.
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I work in a critical access hospital in rural Montana. In short, if it were not for the RN's being unionized, things here would be worse than they are already. It does keep management away from some things. Problem I see is that if you could get ALL the nurses to stick together, things would be much better for us all. But as in most cases, there is always a few who don't see the big picture and only think of their own interests for right now. Sucks. I don't see much use for the union here because if they (management) want to run you over - they will.
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What is the going pay for an RN with 21 yrs exp / diffs?
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What is the going pay for an RN with 21 yrs exp / diffs?