state inspection

[nellern71]

I am new grad nurse passed the n-clex in July. I have been working at the local nursing home for a little over 3 months. The second week I worked the state inspectors walk in the door, I was told by them that I did well, being followed around was nerve wracking to say the least. The facility did not do well over all though and they were back again last week. Here is the part that scares me and I think I am going to resign tomorrow, the Lady from the state comes up to me and asks why I am working there. My answer was I am not sure what you mean, I like working with the elderly, and she said no, why are you here, there are a ton of jobs in another town, or have you tried the local hospital, or the hospital or care center in the next town over? I was like I have tried but their are no opening, and she said if I were you I would try really hard to find other employment. To me that sounded like a warning of get out now. what do you all think???

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

No maybe she just recognized your skill and wanted to encourage you to try another avenue. The facility may have a deficient survey but it is not always nursing that is the cause of that. Maybe she saw something in you that is not there in other nurses. Take it as a compliment, utilize it to help the facility move forward. Look to move on, or not. There are tons of areas for a nurse to work in nursing.

[KyRN😉]

I was once offered a recommendation from a state surveyor and told to apply to become one! She then pulled me aside privately and off record to ask if I thought the facility had any chance of improving its operations... I answered honestly and said no, not without replacing all upper management and more money for staff/education. This was a small privately owned facility and it was pretty apparent that money was being misused:( it was shut-down within the month and I still have my letter of recommendation commending my level of nursing knowledge, integrity, and ingenuity (I had to be; I loved my patients and the excuse of, "it's not in the budget," didn't fly with me). She possibly could have recognized that you're wasting your talent and wanted to encourage you to go somewhere else... It was brought to my attention that because of the facility's policies and unsafe practices I myself could be held accountable! Luckily the surveyor was kind to me and made sure there was no evidence/documentation that could call my license into question (I still feel so lucky and thankful for that). Bottom line, get out of there if you KNOW that there are unsafe/questionable practices. You never know, it could have been meant as a veiled warning:(

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

Surveyors in Massachusetts would NEVER offer personal advice on a job or try to hire you away from your facility.

[KyRN😉]

This was a weird situation. This facility hired me as DON (had a year and a half experience) to basically... Cover things up. I did a lot of great things for the children there (battled to treat them for scabies and saved documentation from dermatologists From the shredder, kept some from getting completely unnecessary g-tubes that were solely for the facilities convienence) all while KNOWING what was happening was wrong and calling state myself; I went to school with a lot of those kids and as much as I wanted to quit I couldn't. Idk if it's common or not to offer a job, but it felt good to know they appreciated me telling the truth:)