Okay, yes this is a complaining thread...:angryfire Here are my reasons that I am considering at least cutting way back on my hours, once I simplify my life this year.
1) I'm very disenchanted with the current administration and management at the hospital where I work. I feel belittled and taken for granted by them. They treat the employees at the hospital like children, with manipulative management techniques they learn at the endless management seminars they attend.
2) I don't like the direction that the regulatory agencies are going and the amount of paperwork they are creating for nurses with their endless demands. I feel like they are people who lack practical experience and are mainly academics, who spend too much time reading studies. I don't think they have much respect for bedside nurses.
3) I had to exert a tremendous amount of effort to get my vacation time this year, even though I had not requested vacation time in 2 years. Then my manager tried to squeeze in all of my FTE into the two other weeks of the month. What a f-ing hassle. Do I ever get any credit for always being on time, and rarely calling in sick? NO! It's NOT MY FAULT THAT YOU ARE SHORTSTAFFED!
4) The hospital gives me the feeling that they will never back me up, but will mainly cover their own a$$es. If I got sick with cancer, they would probably try to get rid of me as soon as possible under some pretense, and then I would lose my insurence. I don't trust the management at my hospital.
Anyways, I think I'm still PO'd over the vacation thing.
Specializes in ICU;CCU;Telemetry;L&D;Hospice;ER/Trauma;.
I am POURIN'!!!!
want that with a salted rim....or just straight out of the blender with a straw??
I feel it too....
I worry what this current place will divulge to the next place I try to work....because they are and have been such back stabbing jerks...
I once had a patient who was a multidrug OD...took a whole medicine chest full of stuff....heart rate 170.....vented....dysfunctional mother at the bedside who just couldn't keep her hands off her 16 year old daughter...her mother allowed everyone of her boyfriends to sexually molest this poor kid....I asked the mom to not stimulate her....hypersensitive to touch....couldn't use alot of sedation 2nd. to all the crap in her system that was frying her liver and kidneys...mother would not comply....started interferring with care....asked her to step away for a bit, and sit in the waiting room until pt. was more stable...mother refused....charge nurse refused to back me....manager was no where to be found....called security, asked that the mother be escorted to waiting room and that she could only visit ten mins. out of every hour....HERE'S WHAT HAS BURNED ME TO THE GROUND....
the hospital chaplain was taking notes....yes....the chaplain....taking notes....like a little stool pigeon 25 feet away from my conversation with the mom.....she gave her 'perceptions' of what was said to MY BOSS.....I was called in and labeled 'difficult' and 'doesn't handle families well'.....NO ONE EVER BOTHERED TO OBSERVE THAT I WAS ADVOCATING FOR MY PATIENT....DUH!!
the chaplain said she was told to take notes on me....I never did find out who that person was...she told me she would do it again if asked!!
SINCE WHEN DO HOSPITAL CHAPLAINS ADJUDICATE MEDICAL PERSONNEL...WHEN EXACTLY DID THEY GET THEIR NURSING OR MEDICAL DEGREE???
This ended up on my evaluation....and has haunted me at this facility for seven years....every time I get a difficult family....I am looked upon with suspicion....even if they are a crazy screaming out of control family, the implied belief is that I must have done something or said something to 'trigger it'.....
I hate this place...and I am leaving as soon as my divorce is over...
I plan on doing some travel nursing....
Or IV Therapy....
because working at this so called MAGNET HOSPITAL....TOP 100 PLACES TO WORK IN CHICAGOLAND...is just a farce....
I know I am not the only one who has been just sliced and diced....one nurse was literally ganged up on after 26 years of nursing....and then after they forced her to go elsewhere to get a job, (she was labeled "unsafe") they actually had the balls to call her and ask if she would come in and help us out.....
Let's enjoy the margarita....
And then let's think of some ways to treat people better....
want that with a salted rim....or just straight out of the blender with a straw??
I feel it too....
I worry what this current place will divulge to the next place I try to work....because they are and have been such back stabbing jerks...
I once had a patient who was a multidrug OD...took a whole medicine chest full of stuff....heart rate 170.....vented....dysfunctional mother at the bedside who just couldn't keep her hands off her 16 year old daughter...her mother allowed everyone of her boyfriends to sexually molest this poor kid....I asked the mom to not stimulate her....hypersensitive to touch....couldn't use alot of sedation 2nd. to all the crap in her system that was frying her liver and kidneys...mother would not comply....started interferring with care....asked her to step away for a bit, and sit in the waiting room until pt. was more stable...mother refused....charge nurse refused to back me....manager was no where to be found....called security, asked that the mother be escorted to waiting room and that she could only visit ten mins. out of every hour....HERE'S WHAT HAS BURNED ME TO THE GROUND....
the hospital chaplain was taking notes....yes....the chaplain....taking notes....like a little stool pigeon 25 feet away from my conversation with the mom.....she gave her 'perceptions' of what was said to MY BOSS.....I was called in and labeled 'difficult' and 'doesn't handle families well'.....NO ONE EVER BOTHERED TO OBSERVE THAT I WAS ADVOCATING FOR MY PATIENT....DUH!!
the chaplain said she was told to take notes on me....I never did find out who that person was...she told me she would do it again if asked!!
SINCE WHEN DO HOSPITAL CHAPLAINS ADJUDICATE MEDICAL PERSONNEL...WHEN EXACTLY DID THEY GET THEIR NURSING OR MEDICAL DEGREE???
This ended up on my evaluation....and has haunted me at this facility for seven years....every time I get a difficult family....I am looked upon with suspicion....even if they are a crazy screaming out of control family, the implied belief is that I must have done something or said something to 'trigger it'.....
I hate this place...and I am leaving as soon as my divorce is over...
I plan on doing some travel nursing....
Or IV Therapy....
because working at this so called MAGNET HOSPITAL....TOP 100 PLACES TO WORK IN CHICAGOLAND...is just a farce....
I know I am not the only one who has been just sliced and diced....one nurse was literally ganged up on after 26 years of nursing....and then after they forced her to go elsewhere to get a job, (she was labeled "unsafe") they actually had the balls to call her and ask if she would come in and help us out.....
Let's enjoy the margarita....
And then let's think of some ways to treat people better....
DEAL???
Jumbo straw, please.
Your situation sounds AWFUL! A chaplain? Sounds like some sort of violation of some sort. Don't they take oaths to keep their mouth shut about such things, not get in the middle? You woulda thought he could have helped calm Mom down. Too busy taking notes maybe.
When you get ready to leave Chicagoland, consider the desert Southwest. At least the weather is nice when you get a day off!
I have a little different perspective right now. I am in the process of leaving a management position. I DO give my staff any time off they request, haven't denied a vacation or weekend off ever. Have gone in to cover night shifts (and weekend shifts)when there was a sick call or they were getting slammed hard with admits, even tho I just finished putting in a 10 hour day shift. Lots of pressures from upper management to 'staff to your stat's', meaning make sure your manhours meet up with your requirements according to census, 'or else'. In the last 1 1/2 years in my current position doing everything I could think of to make the staff happier, working on average 50 hours a week plus on call 24/7, lotsa atta boys and girls, telling some committee they can't add another thing to charting requirements unless they take something else out, intervening when some MD is being a piss ant, always a smile on my face and cheering every one on, handing out chocolate on busy days, on and on and on..... NOT ONE THANK YOU FROM ANYONE IN THE PLACE! No friends 'cuz the middle management team is too competitive with each other to be friends with each other. Lord knows you can't confide in your staff about a lot of things going on. I have definately learned a lot in the a lot year and a half, and I know this experience will look great on my resume. But, NEVER AGAIN WILL I TAKE ANY SORT OF THANKLESS MANAGEMENT JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's no wonder more than half the managers out there are such pains in the butt. The good ones go insane trying to do the job right. All I want now is some sort of my life back.
There. That feels a little better. Thank you.
If there were more managers like you there would be a lot fewer burned out nurses in the world!
I left a job with a wonderful manager and am kicking myself now for not realizing how great we had it. The staff was actually happy for the most part! People got their vacations and the unit was staffed well. My current unit....yeah that's another story!!!! I won't get started! How about one of those margaritas instead? :biere:
OK, here's my plan. I just read in the paper that Governor Gregoire, the governor of Washington state, is about to sign a bill making all children in the state eligible for free health insurence if a family of 4 makes up to $62,000 a year. I get about $25,000 a year under social security because of my dead husband. I made about $40,000 a year last year working my 0.6 FTE, so that's too much, since we are a family of 3, although I really think our dogs should count for a half of a person apiece, but I doubt if the state will agree.
If I cut back my FTE, then I will get free insurence for the girls, and I can buy my own insurence, which I won't lose if I get cancer and have to quit work. I also plan to sell that rental house that I evicted the Meth lady and her 24 beer a day husband from. When I sell that I will have enough money to pay off my house, and buy a new car. That will be $1,000 a month less because no mortage payment.
I'll have more free time, plus less stress. How does that sound for a plan???
i'll take mine on the rocks with a sugared rim please.
my unit is rotten to the core. a small group of staff rules the roost, and unit based policies are set up to benefit those people. they get the nice assignments, have less holiday requirement, get more vacation and first pick on timing for vacation. one woman has taken no less than 3 vacations since i've been there ( i think i would be looking, but feel like i need to get more training in this area (admitting hearts, cvvh, iabp) before i am marketable. oh yeah, and my night weekend schedule is great for childcare costs as well as shift diff., but is tearing my otherwise wonderful marriage up! woo hoo! make it a double bartender, i'm not driving.
Then, maybe I can go back to school for my BSN in order to open up more job options and not be a paddy-a$$ and waste my whole day posting on this website.
OOOH- I want one too- make mine a staight, line 'em up girls! I like my workplace but schools goin' tough. (MSN-NP Program). Sorry to highjack. BTW Garden Dove, soume like a great plan, you've been givin', time to get it back!
:angryfire 
CRNI-ICU20
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I am POURIN'!!!!
want that with a salted rim....or just straight out of the blender with a straw??
I feel it too....
I worry what this current place will divulge to the next place I try to work....because they are and have been such back stabbing jerks...
I once had a patient who was a multidrug OD...took a whole medicine chest full of stuff....heart rate 170.....vented....dysfunctional mother at the bedside who just couldn't keep her hands off her 16 year old daughter...her mother allowed everyone of her boyfriends to sexually molest this poor kid....I asked the mom to not stimulate her....hypersensitive to touch....couldn't use alot of sedation 2nd. to all the crap in her system that was frying her liver and kidneys...mother would not comply....started interferring with care....asked her to step away for a bit, and sit in the waiting room until pt. was more stable...mother refused....charge nurse refused to back me....manager was no where to be found....called security, asked that the mother be escorted to waiting room and that she could only visit ten mins. out of every hour....HERE'S WHAT HAS BURNED ME TO THE GROUND....
the hospital chaplain was taking notes....yes....the chaplain....taking notes....like a little stool pigeon 25 feet away from my conversation with the mom.....she gave her 'perceptions' of what was said to MY BOSS.....I was called in and labeled 'difficult' and 'doesn't handle families well'.....NO ONE EVER BOTHERED TO OBSERVE THAT I WAS ADVOCATING FOR MY PATIENT....DUH!!
the chaplain said she was told to take notes on me....I never did find out who that person was...she told me she would do it again if asked!!
SINCE WHEN DO HOSPITAL CHAPLAINS ADJUDICATE MEDICAL PERSONNEL...WHEN EXACTLY DID THEY GET THEIR NURSING OR MEDICAL DEGREE???
This ended up on my evaluation....and has haunted me at this facility for seven years....every time I get a difficult family....I am looked upon with suspicion....even if they are a crazy screaming out of control family, the implied belief is that I must have done something or said something to 'trigger it'.....
I hate this place...and I am leaving as soon as my divorce is over...
I plan on doing some travel nursing....
Or IV Therapy....
because working at this so called MAGNET HOSPITAL....TOP 100 PLACES TO WORK IN CHICAGOLAND...is just a farce....
I know I am not the only one who has been just sliced and diced....one nurse was literally ganged up on after 26 years of nursing....and then after they forced her to go elsewhere to get a job, (she was labeled "unsafe") they actually had the balls to call her and ask if she would come in and help us out.....
Let's enjoy the margarita....
And then let's think of some ways to treat people better....
DEAL???