SASS3589

I absolutely agree. With the changes in healthcare, hospitals are catering to surgeon's and managers are fearing for their jobs. All of this comes together to create a very negative situation for staff nurses in the operating room. Surgeon's have returned to their abusive ways and the hospital does nothing but spout rhetoric about supporting staff. I write this just minutes after a surgeon threw a debakey pickup at me missing me by about 3 feet as I sat charting. He said the tips did not meet. I would write an incident report except there isn't anything the hospital will do and I can't afford to be without a job. There are no measure taken to support the nurse who holds up a case because the surgeon hasn't charted the required history and physical or even met the patient before surgery. We are nothing but an assembly line. I am so done. I count the seconds until retirement. ( I'd take a vacation but, they have taken most of our PTO away except for what we HAVE to use on holidays---no paid holidays---except for PTO so the holidays eat up all of what would be our vacation) So sad, I used to be passionate about my job!