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Do managers in any of your clinics tell you their is only ONE way to tape an IV site? that you can only decannulate the arterial or venous in certain order? do they tell you that pcts can draw heparin? that a sign of your performance is putting "x" number of pts on as fast as a pct? (even though you are assessing and pushing hep on every one the pct puts "on") just wondering if I want to stay in this mode of "nursing"

I am 59 and work in the fine No rights for employees state of Florida. I was fired from a hospital OR because the manager felt "uncomfortable" working with me - ( had more credentials and experience than her) I went to agency med surg Tele - they wanted me to come on board as an employee of the hospital. One of the back stabbing night RNS refused to help with admissions (six from 5-7pm when she arrivedm and trumped complaint to house supv and new floor manager so I left there 3 days after I started. Unfortunately I do have to work until I am 65 and have no financial help available. I have been battling the "we don't want older nurses so we will hire you and make you so miserable you will leave" situation for approx 10 years. As we all know nurses work for years with nothing to look forward to but social security - because along the way we have had to move on to another facility to protect our sanity and not get fired because we see the problem with patient care. I wish you the best of luck, real nurse ------------------

buffy you need to go to another country -the hospitals here have not even found out how to hire a fair/efficient manager which is the reason we don't have retention in the U.S. ------------------

I am from Florida and the hospitals have been playing the job open game with no job available for the past 5 years just to give HR interview practice. If they DO hire you they try their best to get rid of you before your benefits/bonus is given. with no employee laws ie right to work state we RNS are at the mercy of unscrupulous administrators and their yes man (also nurses) managers. I got out and went to a major dialysis company only to find out they are worse than hospitals. They hire crazy managers who have no management experience with their major focus on harrassing the help until they leave. This company recently employed a major company to do a survey on "recruitment and retention issues" things are so bad with this company. Right now I have been assaulted by the "charge" nurse at the end of the day when asking about a pts condition and the manager is blaming ME for this problem and is indiscreetly telling the rest of the staff she is going to "get rid of me". If anyone out there is working in a state where the RN employee has some rights, please advise. Thanks and Happy New Year!

i have been a perioperative nurse for 18 years cnor, onc, rnfa, with open heart experience, major ortho and vascular first assistant/circ/scrub experience and love what i do. started out as an ER nurse and went to the OR. Moved back to small town florida and was happy doing gen surgery/endo when a new manager came with her sargeant traveler charge nurse and next thing i know I am terminated because the new mgr did not like my being there - she felt threatened by my experience. I am in a Right to work state which means no laws for the employees. Of course I refuted her claims, but hosp admin stood behind her and kept the rn whom the techs had refused to be on call with, and the one who complained all the time about the work and pretended illness if asked to work. Now Im not burned out on OR nursing, but I am sure burned out on managers who are insecure and unable to manage people and the business. I probably would have had a heart attack or stroke like the other two employees had in this hospital from the daily inuendos and harrassment by this manager. SHE is still there and I am having to leave my home to drive 100 mi round trip or go live elsewhere 13 weeks to get the respect and the job I deserve. it is too late for a career change that I can afford to live on and i am very disappointed that this can happen in the USA. Oh, I forgot to mention the major hospital who brings green card aliens over to work for less than us americans -that is just part of the story. ------------------