wcw12

move to the phillipines, get your experience and then come back. sorry, but its true. or you have to know someone who can get you in. or if you find a really awful unit that has a lot of turnover because experienced nurses can find better jobs, you can probably get in there. But its not worth the stress, danger to yourself and patients and risk to your license. trust me! Once you are injured, its tough to recover and harming a patient would be something on your conscience for the rest of your life....even if it was due to poor mgmt/staffing/lack of training. you would still bear the burden. I would look for work at a hospice or doctors office or something related, but not at a hospital. Hospitals are the worst places to work.

against HCA policy to skip lunch? ha! i wish! if you don't get a lunch here, you can charge for it and get an hours pay in lieu, but you have to have a supervisor to sign off on it, which they will never do. they intimidate you instead rather than provide the staffing to do so. i personally like to get my breaks and am ready to take them if someone can relieve me. but we don't get break nurses and often the charge can't break everyone or is in care, etc.

They are staffing illegally and not according to state law. at one point we had a dozen nurses on our unit alone out on workers comp due to work place injuries. they dump icu patients on our med surg floor without a doc's transfer order because they didn't have sufficient staff in the ICU. the doctors are complaining but nothing will be done. already doctors have ceased to practice here (and they wonder why their census is low, ha!) they have denied us our vacations...even an assistant who had written approval by a manager and had already bought plane tickets. it is an awful hell here and we are treated as slaves. Patients have died here due to staffing issues. oh and finally, we don't get the breaks required by law. and they will throw you into whatever they like, whether you were trained in it or not and risk your license. and that is why patients have died. HCA's mission statement is all PR and nothing more. Satan himself works in our HR department.