Vanderbilt Medical Center to have nurses cleaning up

Nurses General Nursing

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"Cleaning the room after the case, including pulling your trash and mopping the floor, are all infection-prevention strategies. And it's all nursing, and it's all surgical tech. You may not believe that, but even Florence Nightingale knew that was true," said a hospital administrator to staff in a video obtained by the Channel 4 I-Team."

http://www.wsmv.com/story/23364976/vanderbilt-medical-center-to-have-nurses-cleaning-up

Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

I'm wondering if they are going to be clamp ring for agency nurses soon...:sarcastic:

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Yeah, a hundred and fifty years ago, nurses were cleaning rooms and all that noise because they didn't have IVs, chest tubes, tube feeding, various monitors, a huge number of drugs that required constant monitoring, knowledge of disease processes and infection control,and specialized assessments. Nursing at the time WAS fluffing pillows, changing linens, cleaning, changing dressings and fetching tea because there wasn't knowledge of anything else. Nursing has changed with advancements in medicine, as it should. Backtracking nursing a century is only going to take health care back a century. They may have sepsis they acquired from a nurse who had just scrubbed an infectious toilet, but by God, they will die with fluffy pillows and a sparkling clean potty!

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ThIs is why I am planning an escape route or at least have a plan B in which I could drop nursing at anytime without any notice and don't look back. They can add one more to the number of licensed RNs who are not working.

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Our CEO made over 5million in pay and bonuses 2011. Just saying.

Perhaps it would be EVEN MORE cost effective if the CEO & CFO cleaned the rooms?

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

Perhaps it would be EVEN MORE cost effective if the CEO & CFO cleaned the rooms?

More so...how about they suit UP...,

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Yeah a hundred and fifty years ago, nurses were cleaning rooms and all that noise because they didn't have IVs, chest tubes, tube feeding, various monitors, a huge number of drugs that required constant monitoring, knowledge of disease processes and infection control,and specialized assessments. Nursing at the time WAS fluffing pillows, changing linens, cleaning, changing dressings and fetching tea because there wasn't knowledge of anything else. Nursing has changed with advancements in medicine, as it should. Backtracking nursing a century is only going to take health care back a century. They may have sepsis they acquired from a nurse who had just scrubbed an infectious toilet, but by God, they will die with fluffy pillows and a sparkling clean potty![/quote']

Agreed....all I can do is :roflmao: at your last sentence, because the thought of that actually happening is so pitiful...sigh...

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTACH, LTC, Home Health.

MASS EXODUS!!!!! By all means PLEASE "pull together like never before" in a stampede to the front door! Or the back door! Don't look back!!!! (I wish there was a smiley riding a horse emoticon!)

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
MASS EXODUS!!!!! Woot-wooooot!!!!!!!

:yes::yes::yes::yes:!!!!

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTACH, LTC, Home Health.

I don't do ER; I don't do OR, I don't do PEDs, I don't do TOILETS, I don't do windows, I don't do floors.....Shall I go on??? Cancel that "all other duties as assigned EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY! Why not give it to engineering or facilities management!!!!!!

These people who have lost their positions will undoubtedly lose their ability to pay for healthcare. I guess the new round of indigent patients will be former employees. They should all return just for the free room and board, and three squares!

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.
So tell me again why Unions are such a bad thing?

Because the housekeepers would be on break every time a room needed cleaning.

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I have no problem taking a patients full trash can out, wiping up a juice spill, etc.. But I would draw the line at mopping, scrubbing things and the like. Not that it's below me -- by any means -- but I probably have more pressing things to do. This will probably result in tons of overtime which is also costly!

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I don't think this will hurt the hospitals wallet one bit. Whatever it saves in housekeeping expenses by having nurses do the job instead, will go into the pocket of the big-wigs that decided to come up with this HORRIBLE idea!

The hospital can "save money" by cutting jobs all they want, but every time they do some exec seems to get a nice raise and a hefty bonus!

I think the gov't should get smart and put a law into place that if a hospital needs to "save money" by delegating the jobs to another department (thereby laying off many employees), cutting out departments as a whole (closing down ER's, etc), and the like, then the hospital execs can NOT get a pay raise or bonus for a specified period of time. I also think that if a hospital is in such dire straights as to need to cut out departments or have mass layoffs, then the hospital should be required to have their financials overlooked by an independent third party (not by the gov't or by the hospital itself) to see what (if anything) has caused this need for lay-offs and where the hospital can save money to keep those jobs if possible.

Sorry for the rant...I just hate when hospitals claim financial hardship and you know that the exec will get a raise shortly after....

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