Everyone expects the male nurses to assist with all lifting jobs. Despite years of training and alleged non-judgemental, gender neutral double-speak, most of our colleagues think of us in...
allmons replied to PalmettoRN's topic in Emergency
Federal OSHA ( and often State versions of OSHA ) REQUIRE employers to provide a safe work place. I would contact OSHA and Georgia's State version of Workplace safety as well as file a civil lawsuit...
Whether a shortage exists is not really the issue - as JRRN aptly points out, many nurses choose NOT to work in nursing. Physical and verbal assaults from patients, families and Physicians are totally...