Queens punchbowl ER

[ughhmehh]

Anyone work (or worked in the past) at Queen's Punchbowl Campus in the ER? What did you like/dislike about the department?

Thanks

[Wb808]

Just go volunteer. Island is small and people aren't going to blast the place.

[Love911Nursing]

Been there, done that, HATED it. Switched to another department completely; hated that as well. Would never work there again, and wouldn't want to be a patient there, either. Took their relocation bonus when I moved out here from the mainland; couldn't stick it out 18 months so I broke the contract and paid part of the bonus back. Any other hospital here is better than Queen's.

[LVHI_RN]

Been there, done that, HATED it. Switched to another department completely; hated that as well. Would never work there again, and wouldn't want to be a patient there, either. Took their relocation bonus when I moved out here from the mainland; couldn't stick it out 18 months so I broke the contract and paid part of the bonus back. Any other hospital here is better than Queen's.

what about it didn't you like?

[Love911Nursing]

Very unsafe nursing practices, dirty hospital, they run out of everything (namely clean blankets, iv supplies, etc. things that are NECESSARY to do your job or for the patient's comfort), horrendous management. I could go on and on, but would be too department specific and I don't want to do that.

[calhirn]

I worked Queens ER for eight years. Queens os a beautiful hospital but Management sucks, ER personel aré full if themselves from Nurses to Doctors to techs. There aré a few Docs who aré nice but There is One little Fat young Japanese doc who is judgemental and once he decides he doesn´t like you he makes work dificult. Plus he mumbles when he speaks and you can´t understand him and he gets really irritated when you ask him to repeat himself. The attitude There is ¨they aré The ONLY trauma hospital in The Pacific basin¨ so they think they aré The best. Straub hospital is no better, Management There is e ven worse.

[TheGoodRN2015]

I know some of you have 'been there and done that' while at Queen's hospital. However, there are a bunch of us new graduates from nursing school who have been working as nurses aides for the last two years, still playing the waiting game. I have decided to go part-time as a nurse aide at a hospital and work as a nurse at a skilled nursing facility. Boy am I getting burned and owned due to the number of patients I have to care for, fall incidents, paperwork, and spending over time after my shift is supposed to be over, putting in doctors' orders. I still hope to get into a new graduate program here in Hawaii. Unfortuantely, what frustrates me the most is that it seems that UH Manoa is either bribing the hospitals here to admit their graduates to QMC and Straub and Kapiolani's new graduate program.

[jawood]

Hi UghhMehh,

I recently read a thread from 2010 that you commented on. You said you were a UCSD grad in biology (Me too) and had gotten an ADN. I was thinking of going that route and wanted to know how you ended up finding a job and any advice I could get on the process!

Thanks so much!