Apparently I'm in the minority here, and I know I was extraordinarily lucky, but I was hired in LTC for days right out of college. I worked there for almost a year and then was hired for full-time...
We do this on my med-surg floor too but they will pull someone out of an assignment to do it at least. Still just hurts me to have to say "we hope your care was fantastic and you'll rate us as...
I've been in acute care only about a year and a half so I mean no disrespect whatsoever to the more seasoned nurses on here saying that this is "normal," but IMO this is flat out DANGEROUS! I left my...
Sounds about right! We have an instant messenger system on the computer to talk between staff, which is fantastic and saves me so much time on the phone- even so I still field about 20 calls in a...