3rdwing

Thank you fellow floor nurses/nonfloor RNs for your comments. I am glad we have this site to post situations and read them. Will try to work with the management on this although sometimes like going upstream without a paddle...

I work on a step down unit with 8 pt.s each, hate it. management even have the balls to tell us to give a presentation to the families in the early mornings when we are the MOST busy, what? yes! they have no brains! Can you ask your coworkers to rally with you on this? Do you have a union, can you address safety issues? have the bosses work on the floor! yes, we have to hold on to the job, I tell you, it is really hard to get a nursing job in a big hospital! Maybe you can discuss with your boss about acuity and safety? The confused pts also drive me nuts but the family members can be the worse if they don't understand and demand things. Good luck!

What?! "More staffing" that will eat the "budget" said management?! They want us to work 13 hours, the hour presentation is for "free." Just don't go on any breaks- not even the bathroom! Ooops, you got UTI? Aaah, too bad, you can use your PTO (part vacation hours) for sick leave. My coworkers/I only take up 15 mins out of our 30 mins lunch break then back to attending to patients. Without floor nurses, management will be lost if they had to man the floor... they are only office workers and don't even know how to multi-task or give IVs anymore. THANKS to retiredlady suggestion, I will try to ask for digital tape and our nurse educator should be on this too.

ELPARK may be working on the floor, honestly, I don't have 45 minutes- 1 hour to spare. Are you in management or administration!? As floor nurses, we get hit with the families complaints, patients and phone calls that take sometimes up to 30 minutes or more to solve. Where is management, OH NO! MANAGEMENT EXPECTS FLOOR RN to solve these problems, you know what? there goes my 45 minutes. Not to mention NOT going to the bathroom or drinking or eating. We ALREADY do teaching with family at the start of admission with insulin, meds, safety, etc !!!!!!!!!! It is insane to do a presentation qweek on top of it all!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi all! I work on a 12 hr. dayshift neuro floor as staff nurse in a fast paced large acute hospital. Lately we have more critical patients with less staff- everyone agree? I am so stressed with patient care and being charge nurse that I can't eat or use the bathroom at all- sound familiar? Ok, get this, the floor manager practically forces us to do 45 mins. presentation on the brain every week DURING OUR WORK HOURS. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? I am against this as this is burdening the team, I already leave late from all that charting. We were told we were outstanding nurses per manager, ha! We still refused but she keeps coming up to the floor to HARASS us why we can't do it, relentless. It's obvious, but they turn a blind eye. The admin. wants someone to do it. We have a nurse educator... We already teach pt and families before discharge. DO I have a legal say? ANY SUGGESTIONS OR OPTIONS WELCOME. I WILL CHECK THIS POST OFTEN. Thanks!