Sneaky Administration

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What is the most sneakiest antics you encountered from administration trying to entrap a  unit or coworker?

Specializes in ER, TRAUMA, MED-SURG.
On 7/21/2021 at 9:18 AM, JKL33 said:

Nothing too mysterious; there is something off-kilter about people like this. They don't feel good about themselves and have big problems.

I thought my old administration was the only ones to do that.  I was at the NS and a bathroom call light went off.  It was a patient I knew couldn’t use his call light so I left the NS and went straight to that pat’s room to check on her.  

When I  walked in the bathroom door popped out the DON,  the ADON, and the risk mgmt head.   The risk mgmt person had a stop watch,  told me it took me 10 seconds to get to the room .  When they  asked why I didn’t ask the PT what she needed before heading to the room I explained the PT was  nonverbal and bedbound.   The said “Ah,  we didn’t think about that. 
 

Anne, RNC

 

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

CLEARLY we are overstaffed in the c-suites.

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Specializes in Cardiology.
On 7/23/2021 at 2:39 AM, DesiDani said:

? I don't understand

Gen med doctors (administrators) tried to take cardiology pt's and say cardiology should be consult only. That was a huge failure. When covid first hit we were the floor tasked with taking covid pts because we were right next to the ICU. Well eventually they decided our floor wasn't coming back so they have us mixed with MS. It's horrible and everyone is leaving including myself.

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On 7/26/2021 at 4:37 PM, sissiesmama said:

When I  walked in the bathroom door popped out the DON,  the ADON, and the risk mgmt head.

I swear an image of the Little Rascals playing a prank just popped in my head. So who is Alfalfa, Spankie, and Froggie?

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Specializes in Cardiac.

A CNO would go in a patient room usually during shift change and turn on the call light to time how long we took to answer it.  Weird!?!?
 

What?!? You see your CNO? Our staff doesn’t even know what she looks like!

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Specializes in Med-surg, telemetry, oncology, rehab, LTC, ALF.

After months of COVID surge, the admin suddenly appears in nursing scrubs on night shift, takes a patient (which happens to be the most ungrateful, foul-mouthed patient on the floor) to the bathroom, and then promptly leaves to never be seen in scrubs in again. Months later, they tell a local journalist that they worked "for months" at the bedside during COVID, and it is published in the paper.

Fires a well-loved manager because of her unpopular opinions and then has another manager (who happens to be a dear friend of admin) brought in just 2 weeks later, even though there are multiple qualified candidates on the unit.

Admin telling nurses and NAs with pre-existing conditions that if they refuse to take care of a COVID patient, or refuse to work the COVID unit, they will be without a job. (True story, had this actually told to me twice during our surge.)

Admin telling nurses and NAs that if they're caught using extra PPE than what they require, they will be without a job.

Admin employing house supervisors to "patrol" the PPE supplies, not allowing nurses to use NEW N-95 respirators but instead use the "recycled" OLD respirators as many times as possible until it is no longer usable.

Admin telling nurses to wear the SAME dirty PPE gowns that they wear in each COVID room at the nursing station, because "everything is dirty down here and it doesn't matter".

Hiring new grads during the middle of surge who spent the last 2 semesters online, and promising them that "we're turning things around and it's getting better" when 50% of the staff is in the process of leaving, the other 50% are travelers with contracts that are about to expire, and our manager is working every night or day because we're so short.

I could go on for days. Thankfully, I've already left this place. ✌️

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An excellent LPN received a scholarship to get her RN.  The nurse manager reported the LPN to the BON for an alleged med error on the nurse, knowing any complaint would stop the scholarship.  It did.  The BON dropped the complaint because it never happened.  No med error occurred. The nurse manager should have been reported to the BON for her lie.  Jealousy has no bounds.  The LPN was a single parent.  

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Specializes in Cardiac.

I do education part time, work Cardiac ICU as staff nurse also. When we do a mock code only select people are aware. We do a full code (takes about 10 minutes) not just see how fast staff get there. If staff know it’s a mock, response is slow or not at all. We know you are busy caring for real patients. The mock is to help staff be better prepared for the real thing. We debrief and help people, especially med surg nurses, who don’t see many codes, understand their role and feel more comfortable. We also have scheduled mock codes in our sim room for staff to attend and work through their roles in a less stressful environment. Blind mock codes have been proven to enhance response and outcomes to real events. 
That said I would never “test” my coworkers response time to call lights. I know, by working side by side with them, what that is already. 

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Specializes in PICU, Pediatrics, Trauma.

Taking a traveler PICU position, and being on the Peds Med-Surg floor 96-99% of the time.  2 days of orientation and after weeks of being in Med-Surg, suddenly having to go to PICU in the middle of the shift.

The true story was they wanted PICU qualified nurses to cover that unit, but mostly work Peds Med-Surg.  Total bait and switch.  There were several of us, so it wasn’t about me personally.  I could go on…there was a lot of crazy crap going on in those units.

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Had a NM who would hide in order to monitor staff arrival time. If arrived minutes after start time, she would order staff member to put in 15 minutes of PTO. Never happened to me since I was always on time but many others would be caught and had to use their time! No wonder morale was low! She eventually was forced into retirement after so many complaints.

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Specializes in retired LTC.

to new member ER - Please seriously consider changing your screen name to something anonymous here. Everybody & anybody (REALLY) reads this site so you don't want to set yourself up for trouble if your post is a bit too revealing.

And welcome to AN.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.
On 7/21/2021 at 4:19 PM, SmilingBluEyes said:

Often there are bait and switch tactics in the hiring process. A nurse is applying and supposedly getting one job only to find out they are actually going to be working elsewhere.

I have seen that plenty of times here. I know people this happened to. They ended up quitting.

I guess that happened to me, but I was actually OK with it. I was hired to my current company as a float nurse which would have had me travelling to different clinics in the district though none are more than a couple of hours from my home.  

During my training two nurses left the clinic I was training in so they decided to just keep me there.  The only downside of that was the loss of a $3.00/hr bump in pay plus paid travel time and mileage so I would have made more money if I were float but by accepting without argument the change to a specific clinic I also wouldn't have to travel to wherever they needed me, sometimes with pretty short notice. I decided it was worth it to take the lower pay and not be required to travel. Especially since I live in an area where Winter driving can be a challenge and I wasn't really looking forward to travelling to some of the clinics that are a little farther out in bad weather.

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