nursALS

Hi..... I have been an ortho/neuro RN for 31 years. I love ortho patients because generally they are not sick. They are usually healthy patients who come in for their elective surgeries, get well, and go home. I like to see patients get well and go home. We do get our share of the elderly who fall and fracture their hips, but most of the patients are stable.

I worked in 4 different hospitals in Las Vegas last year, and ALL of them had a negative attitutude. I think this is because Nevada ranks lowest in the nation for nurse/ pt ratio, so there is a huge turn over in staff. Nurses were constantly resigning and going elsewhere. Morale was terrible. The whole city of Las Vegas was in flux, it's a party town, not condusive to a place where you'd call home or want to retire in.