Art_Vandelay

"This sure seems an odd way to decorate the school's financial aid office."

"This is how they're starting nursing school orientation?"

Just an observation...you said you wanted to get your thread back on topic...and then proceeded to talk about Christmas celebrations.

I don't believe "Get used to it" is a mentality workers should have. This is the mentality that whoever is making these unstaff staffing ratio decisions wants you to have. Give up and suck it up is the mentality of defeat. But for anything to happen, we have to agree with a way to correct things.........and enough of us have to organize together.

When exactly did this happen? I'm not being facetious...I geniunely want to know when things were better.

Props to you for liking SNF/LTC. Personally, I haven't work in one that had decent staffing and I always felt like a med pusher and the environments were awful. You can go directly to the facilities and ask for an application. After you fill it out, you can ask if the DON is available. The ones around here I see ads all the time, I presume because of high turn over rate. Good luck.

"Vixen, several "Get Well" plants are missing from patients' rooms...you wouldn't happen to know where they went, would you?"

"Well, the doc is discharging you with light duty orders. Flying is permitted, but no sleigh pulling greater than 10 pounds."

I get that they need to keep census up, but this is a little extreme.

"Well, apparently Blue Cross Blue Antler is out of network. But the doc said he would consider pro bono if you put in a good word with Santa."

"Whoops, I forgot my Deer faces pain scale. I'll be right back."

"This takes culturally competent care to a new level."

I respectfully disagree that the OP has "misconceptions" about teaching hospitals. IMHO, the OP has a valid complaint. If I may, he/she was made to feel like an object and not a person. It's interesting to find that posters that have been in similar situations(made to feel objectified) can identify with this. I also feel that even though they are "licensed physicians", they are indeed still learning because they are brand new doctors. Just because the experience wasn't "out of the ordinary" does not make it exemplary care.

I'm sorry this happened to you. I agree, the behavior is rude. I chose a teaching hospital for my first baby, because it is considered "the best". That being said, after a first year resident couldn't place an internal monitor or identify the baby's head placement on the ultrasound, I requested a different doctor(a fourth year). Fortunately, they didn't act rude at my bedside...as far as I can recollect. Just because it's a teaching hospital doesn't excuse poor bedside manner. I think this is lacking more and more...teaching hospital or not.

Even if you change your name, if the user looks at your history, you old name is viewable in responses. There is nowhere to hide.