Drowsyrn

I do not think nursing is for you. Please go in the lab...

When I worked in the hospital and nurses worked more than three in a row.... They were bears to work with! Along with all the other reasons listed here, it made the other nurse's life bad. I would get so tired of the moaning and complaining during report and during the day. Or they would call in on the fifth day. YOU made the decision to work five straight...... Shut up ::)). That used to be one of my rants. Drove me nuts. If YOU decide to do it, please don't talk/complain about it on day four and five!

Sounds like a place I would not want to work! This reflects bad on them in my eyes. If this is how the manager runs her unit, not good. Something similar happened to me where the manager was back and forth with me then I was finally hired. Worst job I've had. Keep looking, you will find the right job for you.

Elevated BP and HR- pain recovery room nurse :)

Many same day surgery centers out there now. They hire per diem, part time and full time. No nights, weekends or holidays. Recovery would be your best bet. Not critically ill pts like inpatient surgery. Pre op comes in early 5-530 am but recovery comes in around 7-8 am. Depends on the center but my facility has hired nurses with your amount of experience. Something worth looking into. Good luck.

What type of exam and what type of interview and what kind of place is hospital of the infant Jesus? Lol. Sorry, had to ask...

It's very hard to say. I have had many jobs because my husband was in the Air Force and we moved often. The scenario was always different with each place. I always tried to have contact with the nurse recruiter. Call her/him and you can get the update and info you need. They are the contact person you want to stay in touch with. I would usually get the nurse manager's email and send a follow up note saying thank you, etc. If you have the manager's name you can usually find the email on the facility website. Good luck, it's only Monday...still early I think.

They had an orderly who did the stretchers and linen right before I started there. I literally thought it was insane when I first started and the other nurses did too because they were there when the orderly was there. Now they are getting used to it. I don't think I or they should get used to it. They aren't hiring anyone because we are settling for less than what we should demand for ourselves. It is a privately owned physician surgery center and money is the bottom line. It is all about saving money but working your nurses to the brink of exhaustion. It's wrong on so many levels. We smile and settle way too often. I will approach my manager but want to do it in a professional, effective way. My saving grace is if he says, it's do it or leave. I am able to leave and be ok.

If you know how to delete a thread, let me know. I posted this in the General Discussion area and stated my solution. There are some good posts over there besides the smile and settle method. I think nurses do that way too often, but that's another topic in itself!

Hi WillyNilly, thanks for your post. I'm really curious how others see this. Do you know how to delete a thread? I tried to take it out of PACU thread. Anyway, I'm going to be the bad guy/girl here but I keep questioning if it is my job? I have done MANY things in the last fifteen years of nursing that I know aren't my job but do it with a smile. I was told they had an orderly who did it but left right before I started and they haven't hired a new one. So are they getting the most bang for their buck out of us nurses because we just keep smiling and doing it. Where do we draw the line? Right now just PACU is responsible and there's only two of us in there and it takes us both so there is no rotating. I'm going to suggest rotating with the other depts (OR, Pre-op), then we would have many to rotate with. We all take care of the patients, just because they end with PACU doesn't mean they are just ours.

I have been a nurse for 15 years, the last seven have been in PACU. I can go through my whole story of how I have always been a team player, willing to go above and behind, blah blah. My problem seems small but it is really bothering me. I work at an ambulatory surgery center (started 2 months ago). Some days we may have 55 patients, mostly eye surgeries with probably ten or so general cases being ortho. It's a long day, no breaks, short lunch, we all know the drill. I accepted that years ago and concentrate on pt care. Here's my dilemma. The nurses strip and clean the stretchers and fill the laundry bags and bring them to the dirty utility room. The eye pts are also on stretchers so you're looking at linen for 55 stretchers. At the end of a ten hour + day, we are then expected to push the huge linen cart across the parking lot and then take each bag and hoist them up into a different bin outside which the laundry company picks up in the evening. I'm all for doing my part but this seems wrong on so many levels. Now I know it's easy to say, I'd go right to my manager and say this and that. I'm a very assertive, confident, fair minded nurse. I know how to deal with management and coworkers. I am going to go to my manager, he's very approachable and a good guy. I am contemplating if I want to say I don't think it is work for a nurse to do, now don't go postal on me for saying that. We are professionals and work very hard for 8, 10, 12 hours a day. Or, if it is not something physically we should be doing. Not sure if I want to go the "it's tough physically" route. I know we have to carry our load but this is getting crazy. I have had many jobs (I'm a military wife who has traveled for 25 years with hubby), but have never had to lift twenty laundry bags over my head into a dumpster type bin at the end of the day. How would you all approach it?

I have been a nurse for 15 years, the last seven have been in PACU. I can go through my whole story of how I have always been a team player, willing to go above and behind, blah blah. My problem seems small but it is really bothering me. I work at an ambulatory surgery center (started 2 months ago). Some days we may have 55 patients, mostly eye surgeries with probably ten or so general cases being ortho. It's a long day, no breaks, short lunch, we all know the drill. I accepted that years ago and concentrate on pt care. Here's my dilemma. The nurses strip and clean the stretchers and fill the laundry bags and bring them to the dirty utility room. The eye pts are also on stretchers so you're looking at linen for 55 stretchers. At the end of a ten hour + day, we are then expected to push the huge linen cart across the parking lot and then take each bag and hoist them up into a different bin outside which the laundry company picks up in the evening. I'm all for doing my part but this seems wrong on so many levels. Now I know it's easy to say, I'd go right to my manager and say this and that. I'm a very assertive, confident, fair minded nurse. I know how to deal with management and coworkers. I am going to go to my manager, he's very approachable and a good guy. I am contemplating if I want to say I don't think it is work for a nurse to do, now don't go postal on me for saying that. We are professionals and work very hard for 8, 10, 12 hours a day. Or, if it is not something physically we should be doing. Not sure if I want to go the "it's tough physically" route. I know we have to carry our load but this is getting crazy. I have had many jobs (I'm a military wife who has traveled for 25 years with hubby), but have never had to lift twenty laundry bags over my head into a dumpster type bin at the end of the day. How would you all approach it?