12yrRN

She did have a bag of chlothing in the video. Probably refused to change.

The majority of the new grads coming into our hospital are coming in already planning how to get out of bedside nursing. A lot are continuing on to start NP programs immediately. Have heard more than once "this isn't going to be my forever job" while they are training. Tough time to be starting out due to the current healthcare environment, understaffing and cost cutting, flat wage scales so I do understand their thinking. Reality is though, there are many more jobs "on the floors" and with direct patient care than without. There are some but then most nurses I have seen have to give up the flexibility found in a 24/7 environment and work five days a week and take some level of pay cut. Also, starting wage for a associate degree nurse is good but, at least in our area, the benefits are very poor, expensive insurance with very high copays, etc. Also, entire half of our state controlled by two hospital systems resulting in kind of a monopoly situation where there is no competition. Our scale tops out at 10 years with no further increases except yearly cost of living so returns start to diminish even though starting wage is good.

I just watched the video. Patient can be seen walking around holding her bag of chlothing. You can see the bag of chlothing again when standing in the bus stop. Clearly disoriented. She should have been admitted to mental health unit.