We will NEVER treat our patients BETTER than we treat each other.
Likewise, we will NEVER be able to treat our patients better than management treats us.
Just something to think about.
And how have you been treated this week - by management? by other nurses? by administration? by support staff?
Imagine the payoff for a hospital that is staffed well, has a zero tolerance for bad behaviors and bullying (peer, MD's, management, vendors, visitors), rewards clinical excellence and good kind care (instead of punishing for every pillow not fluffed and a$$ not kissed) and empowers everyone from grounds staff to the CEO to create solutions and work for a common goal (which we kinda have anyway --- patients anyone?).
I love my job. I work for Interim in Wichita KS. I am not a nurse with them, I work in the payroll dpet checking in notes and I take care of the com care stuff. I have the most amazing job, my coworkers (mostly nurses) are amazing, my bosses are dream employers and the whole company is wonderful. I couldnt ask for better people, pay or the job its self. I really do feel so blessed to be working at Interim and its the foot in the door place I wanted. For now I work in the office but in a few years after I get my bsn Ill be working in the field and hopefully Ill be in the office on the nursing side. It all depends on where you work and what you do and who you work with. I got really really lucky getting my job and Im thankful for it each and every day.
And as far as comming into the ED expecting miracles. LOL I dont think people expect miracles there! I do think that they expect quick treatment (though 20 mins would make many pt happy, generally er visits come with a 3-6 hour wait just to get a room then another 1-3 hour wait to be seen in my area. A trip to the ER generally takes 3-8 hours when the er). So I dont think its an impatients of a waite I dont know anyone who would waite that long for any other services. But I do believe that many people who go to the ER don't actually have emergancies. Sure on holidays when you have things like high fevers in children or posion ivey an ER trip is understanable but when you get people comming in with sinus infections and strep throat that is the problem. Its an emergancy room and its supposed to be for emergancies only. I think that's more of the issue then patients not wanting to wait to be seen.
We had just spent most of the night chasing and keeping a very ataxic, confused, psychotic man safe. We felt great about what we did, I wrote a novel about him and our tech did a fantastic job mananging the rest of the patients. The the very rude day nurse has a fit because ONE 7am medication wasn't passed.
deboraclark82
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I love my job. I work for Interim in Wichita KS. I am not a nurse with them, I work in the payroll dpet checking in notes and I take care of the com care stuff. I have the most amazing job, my coworkers (mostly nurses) are amazing, my bosses are dream employers and the whole company is wonderful. I couldnt ask for better people, pay or the job its self. I really do feel so blessed to be working at Interim and its the foot in the door place I wanted. For now I work in the office but in a few years after I get my bsn Ill be working in the field and hopefully Ill be in the office on the nursing side. It all depends on where you work and what you do and who you work with. I got really really lucky getting my job and Im thankful for it each and every day.
And as far as comming into the ED expecting miracles. LOL I dont think people expect miracles there! I do think that they expect quick treatment (though 20 mins would make many pt happy, generally er visits come with a 3-6 hour wait just to get a room then another 1-3 hour wait to be seen in my area. A trip to the ER generally takes 3-8 hours when the er). So I dont think its an impatients of a waite I dont know anyone who would waite that long for any other services. But I do believe that many people who go to the ER don't actually have emergancies. Sure on holidays when you have things like high fevers in children or posion ivey an ER trip is understanable but when you get people comming in with sinus infections and strep throat that is the problem. Its an emergancy room and its supposed to be for emergancies only. I think that's more of the issue then patients not wanting to wait to be seen.