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I worked there briefly and was not at all impressed. They are a self insured HMO whose bottom line is only the dollar and excludes pt decisions re care ie a patient arrived post plane crash with a fractured spine not severe as a quote from the neuro surgeon the treatment course had 2 choices surgery to secure and immobilize the fracture or bed rest and time to heal the fracture, the surgery would be more costly secondary to all the hardware needed to complete it, so bed rest was chosen for the patient, the patient was not given these options the decision was made for him!!! Lucky for the patint he had a family member (From Boston) who was in the medical field and had the foresight to get the patient out of Basset. It was then that I decided I couln't work in a facility that I desparatly wanted to tell my patient to get the hell out of!!!:angryfire

undefined As for nurses who smoke, I am a nurse of 23 years and also a HUMAN which makes me vulnerable to all the same faults that my patients may or may not have. There are obese nurses who work on heart wards, is that right.. there are many faults we all have and the greatest is that we are all human. Smoking is not RIGHT but it is an addiction, and the stress of the job doesn't make it any easier. As for the person who gets upset by having to cover the smoking nurses patients, you take a lunch break don't you? and others have to cover your patients when you do that , if you are so upset about not being able to leave the floor then why not make it a habit to got for a short walk as your "smoke break" Ahuman with faults of my own :rotfl: