Our hospital has tried to do away with agency nurses multiple times. They are now trying to do it again. If we can't staff the ER with reguar staff or hospital registry then we work short. This is a huge problem. The hospital would rather save mon...
jenny867-5309 replied to marcicatherine's topic in Emergency
:imbar My goodness. Most of our patients in the last week have been families and children with common cold symptoms. We normally have a 1-2 hour wait to get into a room. When it's busy we have a 2-4 hour wait. Now it has been about 5 hours. It'...
ICU recovers a lot of pt's in the facility that I work for. Of coarse there are standards for transport and such. The pt must be accompanied by an RN with monitor, code meds O2, etc. The RN transporting is then responsible for the pt's care until ...
A nurse associate of mine was not automatically fired nor did she lose her licence. You get a certain number of chances and most hospitals will offer rehab. When nurses get caught it is usually a cry for help.