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It won't help, it will let Admin. know who to blame and to fire when it happens. This is the cheap way to "keep pts safe", and like I've said before, admin. can say to ACHA "look we are so serious abt pt. safety we even installed these cameras".

Exactly, and our nurses station is all open for everyone to see.

I think its more for risk mgmt.

Yes we do have bed alarms, but it looks much better to AHCA to have camers over the bed too.

Our hospital has had several falls recently, admin. has put a camera over each bed now with the monitor at the nurses station. This seems like an invasion of privacy to me. Does anyone work on a M/S unit like this?

Isn't that the truth, what's up with that. So many admits at change of shift. It's rediculous.

I totally agree, we are not union however.

The only thing is that too many times (b/c this company wants as many admissions as possible and the ER doc comes down to the floor and states "I have to meet my quota") that we, the m/s nurse does not get the true picture of the pt. and like I said we do not have an ICU to transfer a critical pt to, so we have to transfer to a hospital 80 miles away. It would be much safer to begin with for the pt to go ahead and be transferred from the ER, it is much quicker to do a ER to ER transfer than M/S to ER. But NOOOO, we don't make any money that way, we have to have ADMISSIONS (whether they are appropriate for our unit or not. It's very sickening to see how these "for profit" hospitals are ripping off medicare. They either admit people who do not need or want to be in the hospital at all or they admit people who are not stable enough for our small hospital. In the final analysis, they are gambling with these peoples' lives.

The only thing is that too many times (b/c this company wants as many admissions as possible and the ER doc comes down to the floor and states "I have to meet my quota") we, the m/s nurse does not get the true picture of the pt. and like I said we do not have an ICU to transfer a critical pt to, we have to transfer to a hospital 80 miles away. It would be much safer for the pt to go ahead and be transferred from the ER, it is much quicker to do a ER to ER transfer than M/S to ER. But NOOOO, we don't make any money that way, we have to have ADMISSIONS (whether they are appropriate for our unit or not. Its very sickening to see how these "for profit" hospitals are ripping off medicare. They either admit people who do not need or want to be in the hospital at all or they admit people that are not stable enough for our small hospital. They are gambling with these peoples lives.

Great advise, thank you very much. I will keep everyone updated.

Great advise. Thank you very much. I'll let everyone know how it works out.

We have to transfer the pt out to a larger hosp. about 80 miles away. Currently now, the ER will call M/S,speak to the charge nurse & tell her a little about the pt. so as to assign an appropriate room, we obtain a copy of the orders, within about 15 or 20 minutes the ER will call to give us report, then the pt arrives within about 15 or 20 minutes. The problem we have had in the past is that the ER will not fully disclose things like the pt is having unresolved chest pain, that the pts BP is still sky high, even after multiple BP meds, etc.

We are a small hospital, we only have 1 unit-M/S to admit to and administration wants as many admissions as possible and as quickly as possible. Apparently we (m/s nurses)are not discharging and admitting fast enough. Again, I am very concerned for pt safety.

feb 28 by jlog.j feb 28 by jlog.j a member since feb '12. posts: 4 likes: 1 the hospital i work for is wanting to get er admits to the floor within 30 minutes of a room assignment being given. the er nurse is suppose to bring the pt to the floor and while she is doing that she is suppose to give the receiving nurse the report. i have never heard of such a thing. all the nurses on the m/s unit are all afraid of receiving a pt. that is not stable. it does not sound like admin. is thinking of the safety of the patient. only getting as many pts admitted as possible . does anyone have any ideas about this situation. i'm afraid, very afraid. just to give a little more info. we are a small hospital. we don't even have a nursing supervisor. the charge nurse is to make the room assignment. report remove bookmark poll [color=#333333]like

Thanks for sharing your experience. Glad to know we are not the only ones having issues like this. We do not have an ICU, so not sure what we will do if we get an unstable pt. I'm having a hard time dealing with this "for profit" hospital now (we use to be not for profit). My co-workers and I are very afraid of losing our licenses as one of our co-workers did recently with this company.