llyonya

I am a doer and satisfied with my status. Some doers who want to become a watcher may be very nasty they think they will be promoted faster if they are nasty. I used to work in the biggest and nastiest hospital in my area. Once I wanted to go to a different department and asked my friend from a float pool in which department a manager is good. She replied, "there are no good managers in this hospital. Managers who treat their nurses nicely do not work here longer than a year.

Foreign nurses often underpaid so they contribute a lot to someone's big pocket. I heard that RNs recruited abroad are paid less than LPNs.

Nursing is overwhelming if you follow all rules. To be a successful nurse you need to know what you have to do all the time and what rules you may egnore from time to time silently, without discussing it with coworkers.

That's what I hate about America - you, guys, love so much to complain about one another to your managers. Try to complain to your manager about your coworker in Eastern Europe, or in Italy, for example, and you will see what will happen to a complainer... Also, if your manager wants to fire you she will do it. You are nothing in this country. For example I also was fired from hospital after working for the hospital for 2 years and getting 3 write-ups just in one month. Once I was written up because my patient complained, stating, "I thought I would fall."But she did not fall. and hospital has policy - not to punish nurses for pt's falls, just send a nurse to a fall prevention class. In my case patient even did not fall.. I appealed that write-up and lost my appeal even though hospital policy was on my side. I wish you good luck, and also encourage you to think: How many times did you complain to your manager about your coworkers? I do not mean your current job. Did you do this type of harm to someone in the past?

Other problem is lack of unity among nurses. Manegers make new rules every day, they add new documentation every months. You may be very busy with your patients your day may be extremely craze. For this reason you forgot to document something very insignificant. Chances your charting will be audited by maneger is very low. However, if other nurse notice you missed something in your charting, you maneger most likely will know it. Why to take this stuff to managers if you know managers are not on our side, and none of us is perfect and may do the same error in charting tomorrow?