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Post by spitfire926f on May 19, 2023 19:18:06 GMT
So I changed my schedule from two 12s to three 8s and now they want me to come in at 7p instead of 11p. No. No, it's not my fault they can't keep any staff. It's not my fault they pay the floor staff so poorly no one stays.
I'm nervous about going in tonight anyway. I am not normally intimated by my patients, not even the ones with a violence history. I have a lot of experience and I can pick up on when people need to he medicated. But the city police have a tendency of dropping off people at our ER rather than processing them at the jail, and just letting them show up (or not) for their court date, Like the guy who threw boiling water on his brother and then tried to set his house on fire. We booted him after a couple days because he was antisocial, and we aren't fixing that.
Well, now we have a patient who attacked several family members with a hammer and put one in the hospital. He's very sick though. You go to check on him for his routine observations and he'll be pacing in his room, in the dark, just talking to his voices. He's very pleasant and polite with the staff. It's too pleasant, and it makes me nervous. And he's taking the medication we give him, but it doesn’t seem to be helping. I feel like because of how ill he is, he could probably turn on a dime. I hate to say this because he's so sick, but he should have been taken to jail. They would have processed him and then sent him to the state hospital forensic unit for treatment. We aren't a forensic unit.
At night it is often just me and two other other staff, one on each wing. The staff are often teenagers who are psych students, and might not even work on that floor, but get pulled there from a different unit. So they are stuck, by themselves, on a unit they don't know, with a guy who almost killed his own family he's so psychotic. And they get one break off the unit, which I relieve them for. Then it's just me and the person on the other wing. We have personal alarms that we can press that alerts security to come to the floor, but that can take a few minutes. And it's usually only 2-3 security guards in the building on the weekend. This is why we can't keep staff. It's not like they make big bucks for this either.
So no, I'm not coming in at 7 tonight. I love you assistant manager, I'm sorry the unit is short, but I've always struggled with codependent people in my life, I'm not having a toxic relationship with my job.
And to top it all off, there is ALWAYS something broken or out order. My hospital system is constantly advertising about the new hospitals they're building, their cutting edge medical centers...I literally work in the same building where people choked to death in straight jackets and died from lobotomies gone wrong, when that what was cutting edge psychiatric medicine in the mid twentieth century. We don't get a new building.
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Post by gardengirl1953 on May 19, 2023 21:30:29 GMT
So I changed my schedule from two 12s to three 8s and now they want me to come in at 7p instead of 11p. No. No, it's not my fault they can't keep any staff. It's not my fault they pay the floor staff so poorly no one stays. I'm nervous about going in tonight anyway. I am not normally intimated by my patients, not even the ones with a violence history. I have a lot of experience and I can pick up on when people need to he medicated. But the city police have a tendency of dropping off people at our ER rather than processing them at the jail, and just letting them show up (or not) for their court date, Like the guy who threw boiling water on his brother and then tried to set his house on fire. We booted him after a couple days because he was antisocial, and we aren't fixing that. Well, now we have a patient who attacked several family members with a hammer and put one in the hospital. He's very sick though. You go to check on him for his routine observations and he'll be pacing in his room, in the dark, just talking to his voices. He's very pleasant and polite with the staff. It's too pleasant, and it makes me nervous. And he's taking the medication we give him, but it doesn’t seem to be helping. I feel like because of how ill he is, he could probably turn on a dime. I hate to say this because he's so sick, but he should have been taken to jail. They would have processed him and then sent him to the state hospital forensic unit for treatment. We aren't a forensic unit. At night it is often just me and two other other staff, one on each wing. The staff are often teenagers who are psych students, and might not even work on that floor, but get pulled there from a different unit. So they are stuck, by themselves, on a unit they don't know, with a guy who almost killed his own family he's so psychotic. And they get one break off the unit, which I relieve them for. Then it's just me and the person on the other wing. We have personal alarms that we can press that alerts security to come to the floor, but that can take a few minutes. And it's usually only 2-3 security guards in the building on the weekend. This is why we can't keep staff. It's not like they make big bucks for this either. So no, I'm not coming in at 7 tonight. I love you assistant manager, I'm sorry the unit is short, but I've always struggled with codependent people in my life, I'm not having a toxic relationship with my job. And to top it all off, there is ALWAYS something broken or out order. My hospital system is constantly advertising about the new hospitals they're building, their cutting edge medical centers...I literally work in the same building where people choked to death in straight jackets and died from lobotomies gone wrong, when that what was cutting edge psychiatric medicine in the mid twentieth century. We don't get a new building. End rant/ I think that is a perfectly justified rant and it is very perceptive of you to see the codependent aspect of this - people have always taken advantage of my good nature, too. Toxic folks always sniff out the true do-gooders and take advantage of them. Establish boundaries. I know, easier said than done. I attract narcissists like a magnet, probably because I was raised by one. They can seem so sincere and charming, and they really need your help! As for the psychotic, you should alert your superiors and insist that there always be a security guard when any medical personnel go into his room. Trust your gut. I did, (long story, will PM sometime) and I am alive because of it. At least have a shot of some fast-acting sedative in a syringe in your pocket, just in case. He really does belong in the state hospital forensic unit. They don't pay you enough to be dealing with that kind of situation. Take care, stand your ground! |
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Post by spitfire926f on May 20, 2023 1:48:50 GMT
So I changed my schedule from two 12s to three 8s and now they want me to come in at 7p instead of 11p. No. No, it's not my fault they can't keep any staff. It's not my fault they pay the floor staff so poorly no one stays. I'm nervous about going in tonight anyway. I am not normally intimated by my patients, not even the ones with a violence history. I have a lot of experience and I can pick up on when people need to he medicated. But the city police have a tendency of dropping off people at our ER rather than processing them at the jail, and just letting them show up (or not) for their court date, Like the guy who threw boiling water on his brother and then tried to set his house on fire. We booted him after a couple days because he was antisocial, and we aren't fixing that. Well, now we have a patient who attacked several family members with a hammer and put one in the hospital. He's very sick though. You go to check on him for his routine observations and he'll be pacing in his room, in the dark, just talking to his voices. He's very pleasant and polite with the staff. It's too pleasant, and it makes me nervous. And he's taking the medication we give him, but it doesn’t seem to be helping. I feel like because of how ill he is, he could probably turn on a dime. I hate to say this because he's so sick, but he should have been taken to jail. They would have processed him and then sent him to the state hospital forensic unit for treatment. We aren't a forensic unit. At night it is often just me and two other other staff, one on each wing. The staff are often teenagers who are psych students, and might not even work on that floor, but get pulled there from a different unit. So they are stuck, by themselves, on a unit they don't know, with a guy who almost killed his own family he's so psychotic. And they get one break off the unit, which I relieve them for. Then it's just me and the person on the other wing. We have personal alarms that we can press that alerts security to come to the floor, but that can take a few minutes. And it's usually only 2-3 security guards in the building on the weekend. This is why we can't keep staff. It's not like they make big bucks for this either. So no, I'm not coming in at 7 tonight. I love you assistant manager, I'm sorry the unit is short, but I've always struggled with codependent people in my life, I'm not having a toxic relationship with my job. And to top it all off, there is ALWAYS something broken or out order. My hospital system is constantly advertising about the new hospitals they're building, their cutting edge medical centers...I literally work in the same building where people choked to death in straight jackets and died from lobotomies gone wrong, when that what was cutting edge psychiatric medicine in the mid twentieth century. We don't get a new building. End rant/ I think that is a perfectly justified rant and it is very perceptive of you to see the codependent aspect of this - people have always taken advantage of my good nature, too. Toxic folks always sniff out the true do-gooders and take advantage of them. Establish boundaries. I know, easier said than done. I attract narcissists like a magnet, probably because I was raised by one. They can seem so sincere and charming, and they really need your help! As for the psychotic, you should alert your superiors and insist that there always be a security guard when any medical personnel go into his room. Trust your gut. I did, (long story, will PM sometime) and I am alive because of it. At least have a shot of some fast-acting sedative in a syringe in your pocket, just in case. He really does belong in the state hospital forensic unit. They don't pay you enough to be dealing with that kind of situation. Take care, stand your ground! We have to check on him every 15 minutes. They aren't going to station a security guard on the unit. But I do keep syringes of Haldol and Ativan ready to go for the patients I feel are "on the bubble" so to speak. If I don't need to use them they just get wasted with the incoming dayshift nurse. I enjoy my work, but I'm starting to age out of this. Even if I can't get a master's degree, I can teach nursing assistants or LPNs with a Bach. I may need to transition to that in another 10-years. |
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Post by spitfire926f on May 20, 2023 5:30:26 GMT
Well they discharged that one patient. I'm not sure why, but it's one less thing for me to worry about. It's just mostly pleasant psychotics and manics right now. I'll be able to get through the weekend okay I think.
I need a vacation from my life. My one friend keeps bugging me to come see him. I haven't visited him since I moved to PA. I wish I could pack up the dogs and just go. He lives in the middle on nowhere, it's nice.
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Post by spitfire926f on May 20, 2023 13:20:46 GMT
Oh, and the reason they wanted me to come in early is because they had a staff member get bit and go to the ER. I saw a pic of the bite, it was pretty nasty even though this patient only has nine teeth. He's 68 and strong as hell. No dementia, but a mood disorder and cluster B personality disorder. He really likes me for some reason though, go figure. He's a huge pain in the dick to everyone else. Last night I went to check on the guy working on that wing and I noticed a perfectly placed banana peel right in front of the wing doors. I guess this guy placed it there hoping the staff working that side would slip on it like out of a cartoon 😂
And they sent an 80-year-old schizophrenic with dementia to the bezerker unit because the geriatric unit doesn't have a bed right now. My hospital doesn't care how wildly inappropriate this is, or how at risk on that unit he is.
The hospital was offering the nurses crazy shift bonuses to pick-up extra shifts. Like an extra $20-30/hr (why they can't just pay people more out if the gate so we'll actually be staffed is asking all the hard questions). I guess in June that's ending, and the managers and assistant managers will be covering the holes in the schedule. The assistant unit manager is the coworker in the other thread that I'm crocheting a wedding and baby blanket for. I love her, and I know I'm going to be getting the hard sell about picking up extra shifts, but NO.
I am such a bitter bitch about the whole system. My corporate "non-profit" hospital system loses money on my hospital. That's why we won't get a new building, or working equipment, or decent wages. If they could say "fuck you" to all the mental health patients in Pittsburgh and SW PA and just shut down the hospital, they would. Legally they can't, so here we are.
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Post by abbey1227 on May 20, 2023 14:37:43 GMT
The hospital was offering the nurses crazy shift bonuses to pick-up extra shifts. Like an extra $20-30/hr (why they can't just pay people more out if the gate so we'll actually be staffed is asking all the hard questions). I guess in June that's ending, and the managers and assistant managers will be covering the holes in the schedule. The assistant unit manager is the coworker in the other thread that I'm crocheting a wedding and baby blanket for. I love her, and I know I'm going to be getting the hard sell about picking up extra shifts, but NO. I am such a bitter bitch about the whole system. My corporate "non-profit" hospital system loses money on my hospital. That's why we won't get a new building, or working equipment, or decent wages. If they could say "fuck you" to all the mental health patients in Pittsburgh and SW PA and just shut down the hospital, they would. Legally they can't, so here we are.
I find this stuff so confounding.
You are obviously a decent person and you care.......but Holee F they put you in a dangerous position.
I know a CNA that works in assisted care and the stories are kinda similar.
We've been hearing about worker shortages for decades now........but this crazy flip-flopping and messing with schedules still goes on? Like you said......they'll pay EXTRA in the last minute............but treat their responsible and trustworthy workers decent enough to retain them? Not so much.
This is kinda what makes me LOL at anyone that still holds out hope for UHC here. We don't have enough bodies for regular healthcare. We certainly don't have enough bodies and resources for all the elderly. And we sure the hell don't have anywhere near enough people, resources and facilities to handle all of the mental patients and drug addicts. It's dangerous work! It should almost be like Supermax prisons with video monitoring and very few one on one contact situations between the workers and the inmates.
But they passed some laws, huh? By people who never have to do any of that work themselves? And the future people are gonna fill all these gaps? and pay for everything they want and vote for? Not likely.
You protect YOU at all times.
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Post by gardengirl1953 on May 20, 2023 17:32:04 GMT
Oh, and the reason they wanted me to come in early is because they had a staff member get bit and go to the ER. I saw a pic of the bite, it was pretty nasty even though this patient only has nine teeth. He's 68 and strong as hell. No dementia, but a mood disorder and cluster B personality disorder. He really likes me for some reason though, go figure. He's a huge pain in the dick to everyone else. Last night I went to check on the guy working on that wing and I noticed a perfectly placed banana peel right in front of the wing doors. I guess this guy placed it there hoping the staff working that side would slip on it like out of a cartoon 😂 And they sent an 80-year-old schizophrenic with dementia to the bezerker unit because the geriatric unit doesn't have a bed right now. My hospital doesn't care how wildly inappropriate this is, or how at risk on that unit he is. The hospital was offering the nurses crazy shift bonuses to pick-up extra shifts. Like an extra $20-30/hr (why they can't just pay people more out if the gate so we'll actually be staffed is asking all the hard questions). I guess in June that's ending, and the managers and assistant managers will be covering the holes in the schedule. The assistant unit manager is the coworker in the other thread that I'm crocheting a wedding and baby blanket for. I love her, and I know I'm going to be getting the hard sell about picking up extra shifts, but NO. I am such a bitter bitch about the whole system. My corporate "non-profit" hospital system loses money on my hospital. That's why we won't get a new building, or working equipment, or decent wages. If they could say "fuck you" to all the mental health patients in Pittsburgh and SW PA and just shut down the hospital, they would. Legally they can't, so here we are. /rant You have every right to rant. A lot of bad behavior on the part of employers is becoming more normalized in the US. I worked for 11 years for a company that had caught on to that earlier than most. |
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Post by spitfire926f on May 21, 2023 1:22:57 GMT
The hospital was offering the nurses crazy shift bonuses to pick-up extra shifts. Like an extra $20-30/hr (why they can't just pay people more out if the gate so we'll actually be staffed is asking all the hard questions). I guess in June that's ending, and the managers and assistant managers will be covering the holes in the schedule. The assistant unit manager is the coworker in the other thread that I'm crocheting a wedding and baby blanket for. I love her, and I know I'm going to be getting the hard sell about picking up extra shifts, but NO. I am such a bitter bitch about the whole system. My corporate "non-profit" hospital system loses money on my hospital. That's why we won't get a new building, or working equipment, or decent wages. If they could say "fuck you" to all the mental health patients in Pittsburgh and SW PA and just shut down the hospital, they would. Legally they can't, so here we are.
I find this stuff so confounding.
You are obviously a decent person and you care.......but Holee F they put you in a dangerous position.
I know a CNA that works in assisted care and the stories are kinda similar.
We've been hearing about worker shortages for decades now........but this crazy flip-flopping and messing with schedules still goes on? Like you said......they'll pay EXTRA in the last minute............but treat their responsible and trustworthy workers decent enough to retain them? Not so much.
This is kinda what makes me LOL at anyone that still holds out hope for UHC here. We don't have enough bodies for regular healthcare. We certainly don't have enough bodies and resources for all the elderly. And we sure the hell don't have anywhere near enough people, resources and facilities to handle all of the mental patients and drug addicts. It's dangerous work! It should almost be like Supermax prisons with video monitoring and very few one on one contact situations between the workers and the inmates.
But they passed some laws, huh? By people who never have to do any of that work themselves? And the future people are gonna fill all these gaps? and pay for everything they want and vote for? Not likely.
You protect YOU at all times.
And it's not like any of the other floors are any better. They're all poorly staffed with inappropriate patients for that specialty floor. Only the pediatric and geriatric/medical units have strictish admission criteria. I left geri/medical because I'm pretty sure one of the dementia patients is going to end up choking to death from something they dug out of the garbage or dying from injuries succumbed from a fall. I can live with myself getting hurt. I can't live with it happening to one of my patients on my watch because my hospital system is like a cartoon stereotype for corporate greed. |
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Post by ant-mac on May 21, 2023 1:30:00 GMT
Sounds like you need more wine and cheese, to help you cope with the "whine and cheese".   |
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Post by spitfire926f on May 21, 2023 4:04:15 GMT
Sounds like you need more wine and cheese, to help you cope with the "whine and cheese". Monday! |
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Post by ant-mac on May 21, 2023 8:02:02 GMT
Sounds like you need more wine and cheese, to help you cope with the "whine and cheese". Monday! Only six and a half hours away... for me. |
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Post by gardengirl1953 on May 21, 2023 19:26:13 GMT
Oh, and the reason they wanted me to come in early is because they had a staff member get bit and go to the ER. I saw a pic of the bite, it was pretty nasty even though this patient only has nine teeth. He's 68 and strong as hell. No dementia, but a mood disorder and cluster B personality disorder. He really likes me for some reason though, go figure. He's a huge pain in the dick to everyone else. Last night I went to check on the guy working on that wing and I noticed a perfectly placed banana peel right in front of the wing doors. I guess this guy placed it there hoping the staff working that side would slip on it like out of a cartoon 😂 And they sent an 80-year-old schizophrenic with dementia to the bezerker unit because the geriatric unit doesn't have a bed right now. My hospital doesn't care how wildly inappropriate this is, or how at risk on that unit he is. The hospital was offering the nurses crazy shift bonuses to pick-up extra shifts. Like an extra $20-30/hr (why they can't just pay people more out if the gate so we'll actually be staffed is asking all the hard questions). I guess in June that's ending, and the managers and assistant managers will be covering the holes in the schedule. The assistant unit manager is the coworker in the other thread that I'm crocheting a wedding and baby blanket for. I love her, and I know I'm going to be getting the hard sell about picking up extra shifts, but NO. I am such a bitter bitch about the whole system. My corporate "non-profit" hospital system loses money on my hospital. That's why we won't get a new building, or working equipment, or decent wages. If they could say "fuck you" to all the mental health patients in Pittsburgh and SW PA and just shut down the hospital, they would. Legally they can't, so here we are. /rant Okay, I am confused... My corporate "non-profit" hospital system loses money on my hospital. What is a corporate non-profit? If they are actually a non-profit, where the hell are the fundraisers? It's time to start a capital campaign for improving the structure and a general campaign for operating costs. Where are the high-dollar donors? And the regular donors that help with operating costs? Isn't your hospital inspected by the state? There should be some kind of oversight by the government, the public health department, somebody, something. Are there any investigative reporters up there, or are they too busy dealing with transgendered rights to report anything real like this? You stay safe. The mood disorder, Cluster B personality disorder guy should be in restraints. Or a muzzle. If you will pardon the expression, this is "nuts". |
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Post by abbey1227 on May 22, 2023 1:53:12 GMT
<abbr class="o-timestamp time" data-timestamp="1684632177000" title="May 20, 2023 20:22:57 GMT -5">May 20, 2023 20:22:57 GMT -5</abbr> spitfire926f said: And it's not like any of the other floors are any better. They're all poorly staffed with inappropriate patients for that specialty floor. Only the pediatric and geriatric/medical units have strictish admission criteria. I left geri/medical because I'm pretty sure one of the dementia patients is going to end up choking to death from something they dug out of the garbage or dying from injuries succumbed from a fall. I can live with myself getting hurt. I can't live with it happening to one of my patients on my watch because my hospital system is like a cartoon stereotype for corporate greed.
I gotta address that last bit, though.
If you can somehow come up with a formula for a profit based business that can afford everything you'd like to happen........why not do it?
The truth of the matter is the Govt passes all sorts of 'feel good' regulations........ that just can't be met. Either because the costs would so prohibitive.......or simply because we've had decades of not enough people willingly getting into the fields.
Yes, some very wealthy people own and operate 'assisted care' facilities......... but if it's so corrupt and profitable? How come nobody has come along and offered a slightly cheaper option with better care?
Do you see what I'm getting at here?
We all complain about the price of medical care/insurance. But does the Doctor offer to work for free or less? does his staff? Does his insurance company offer discount pricing? Does the hospital get built and maintained by people who donate their time & materials? How about the colleges that educated those doctors and nurses? Discounts? For the 'greater good'?
Nope, cuz everybody wants to get paid.........but people rarely step up to the plate when it comes to actually paying for all of these modern expectations. Jus sayin' |
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Post by spitfire926f on May 22, 2023 4:03:29 GMT
<abbr class="o-timestamp time" data-timestamp="1684632177000" title="May 20, 2023 20:22:57 GMT -5">May 20, 2023 20:22:57 GMT -5</abbr> spitfire926f said: And it's not like any of the other floors are any better. They're all poorly staffed with inappropriate patients for that specialty floor. Only the pediatric and geriatric/medical units have strictish admission criteria. I left geri/medical because I'm pretty sure one of the dementia patients is going to end up choking to death from something they dug out of the garbage or dying from injuries succumbed from a fall. I can live with myself getting hurt. I can't live with it happening to one of my patients on my watch because my hospital system is like a cartoon stereotype for corporate greed.
I gotta address that last bit, though.
If you can somehow come up with a formula for a profit based business that can afford everything you'd like to happen........why not do it?
The truth of the matter is the Govt passes all sorts of 'feel good' regulations........ that just can't be met. Either because the costs would so prohibitive.......or simply because we've had decades of not enough people willingly getting into the fields.
Yes, some very wealthy people own and operate 'assisted care' facilities......... but if it's so corrupt and profitable? How come nobody has come along and offered a slightly cheaper option with better care?
Do you see what I'm getting at here?
We all complain about the price of medical care/insurance. But does the Doctor offer to work for free or less? does his staff? Does his insurance company offer discount pricing? Does the hospital get built and maintained by people who donate their time & materials? How about the colleges that educated those doctors and nurses? Discounts? For the 'greater good'?
Nope, cuz everybody wants to get paid.........but people rarely step up to the plate when it comes to actually paying for all of these modern expectations. Jus sayin' Are millions of dollars worth of ads ran during the super-bowl necessary? All the top-heavy corporate bullshit that goes on? No. There is plenty of fat that could be cut. Cry me a fucking river for my corporate over-lords, Abbey. You could die of sepsis from a hospital acquired infection related to lack of supplies, and you'd still defend the bonuses these assholes give themselves. |
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Post by spitfire926f on May 22, 2023 4:07:07 GMT
Oh, and the reason they wanted me to come in early is because they had a staff member get bit and go to the ER. I saw a pic of the bite, it was pretty nasty even though this patient only has nine teeth. He's 68 and strong as hell. No dementia, but a mood disorder and cluster B personality disorder. He really likes me for some reason though, go figure. He's a huge pain in the dick to everyone else. Last night I went to check on the guy working on that wing and I noticed a perfectly placed banana peel right in front of the wing doors. I guess this guy placed it there hoping the staff working that side would slip on it like out of a cartoon 😂 And they sent an 80-year-old schizophrenic with dementia to the bezerker unit because the geriatric unit doesn't have a bed right now. My hospital doesn't care how wildly inappropriate this is, or how at risk on that unit he is. The hospital was offering the nurses crazy shift bonuses to pick-up extra shifts. Like an extra $20-30/hr (why they can't just pay people more out if the gate so we'll actually be staffed is asking all the hard questions). I guess in June that's ending, and the managers and assistant managers will be covering the holes in the schedule. The assistant unit manager is the coworker in the other thread that I'm crocheting a wedding and baby blanket for. I love her, and I know I'm going to be getting the hard sell about picking up extra shifts, but NO. I am such a bitter bitch about the whole system. My corporate "non-profit" hospital system loses money on my hospital. That's why we won't get a new building, or working equipment, or decent wages. If they could say "fuck you" to all the mental health patients in Pittsburgh and SW PA and just shut down the hospital, they would. Legally they can't, so here we are. /rant Okay, I am confused... My corporate "non-profit" hospital system loses money on my hospital. What is a corporate non-profit? If they are actually a non-profit, where the hell are the fundraisers? It's time to start a capital campaign for improving the structure and a general campaign for operating costs. Where are the high-dollar donors? And the regular donors that help with operating costs? Isn't your hospital inspected by the state? There should be some kind of oversight by the government, the public health department, somebody, something. Are there any investigative reporters up there, or are they too busy dealing with transgendered rights to report anything real like this? You stay safe. The mood disorder, Cluster B personality disorder guy should be in restraints. Or a muzzle. If you will pardon the expression, this is "nuts". The best part is one of the union reps works on my unit, and apparently corporate isn't reporting all of injuries to OSHA. So no we have a card we wear on the back of our badges with a QR code we're supposed to scan with our phones to file it with OSHA ourselves. I assume that injuries that don't require medical treatment aren't mandatory reports, so they aren't bothering because they have so many that are and it looks bad. |
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Post by abbey1227 on May 22, 2023 10:39:54 GMT
Are millions of dollars worth of ads ran during the super-bowl necessary? All the top-heavy corporate bullshit that goes on? No. There is plenty of fat that could be cut. Cry me a fucking river for my corporate over-lords, Abbey. You could die of sepsis from a hospital acquired infection related to lack of supplies, and you'd still defend the bonuses these assholes give themselves.
I do not think that addressed my question at all............ if there are so many that believe as you do, where is the more altruistic competition for those highly overpaid overlords?
And you can ignore or defund Govt at all levels...........but they found a way to send $Billions over to some shithole called Ukraine where they're laundering money for themselves and their friends.
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Post by gardengirl1953 on May 22, 2023 17:52:59 GMT
Okay, I am confused... My corporate "non-profit" hospital system loses money on my hospital. What is a corporate non-profit? If they are actually a non-profit, where the hell are the fundraisers? It's time to start a capital campaign for improving the structure and a general campaign for operating costs. Where are the high-dollar donors? And the regular donors that help with operating costs? Isn't your hospital inspected by the state? There should be some kind of oversight by the government, the public health department, somebody, something. Are there any investigative reporters up there, or are they too busy dealing with transgendered rights to report anything real like this? You stay safe. The mood disorder, Cluster B personality disorder guy should be in restraints. Or a muzzle. If you will pardon the expression, this is "nuts". The best part is one of the union reps works on my unit, and apparently corporate isn't reporting all of injuries to OSHA. So no we have a card we wear on the back of our badges with a QR code we're supposed to scan with our phones to file it with OSHA ourselves. I assume that injuries that don't require medical treatment aren't mandatory reports, so they aren't bothering because they have so many that are and it looks bad. Good! Get OSHA on it! Good for the union rep! |
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Post by spitfire926f on May 27, 2023 5:47:07 GMT
So we recently got a new CEO, same one who shut down the shift bonuses. She thinks she's going to pull nurses from the floors to the ER to be an admission nurse.
A) This is against our contract with the union. We can't get pulled from our unit so the union will be grieving this.
B) There aren't enough nurses to pull from the floors to do this. There really won't be now that the shift bonuses were axed.
C) I'm not doing it. Half the ER admissions are pediatrics, and if I want to deal with psycho kids I just go visit my own, I'm not dealing with anybody else's.
D) They want aggressive patient admissions done on the units they're being admitted to. For example: there was a guy running around the city in a loin cloth carrying a mallet and a butcher knife. He ended up in our ER and before the meds kicked in he masturbated to completion on an ER window. He came up to us in four points, but heavily medicated. I guess we'll now be devoting staff to having patients in seclusion for those behaviors because our ER, that does next to nothing now, will be doing even less?
I hate regime changes. They always come on with these big ideas. This bitch thinks she's turning this dump into a magnet status hospital 🤣
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Post by abbey1227 on May 27, 2023 12:05:58 GMT
So we recently got a new CEO, same one who shut down the shift bonuses. She thinks she's going to pull nurses from the floors to the ER to be an admission nurse. A) This is against our contract with the union. We can't get pulled from our unit so the union will be grieving this. B) There aren't enough nurses to pull from the floors to do this. There really won't be now that the shift bonuses were axed. C) I'm not doing it. Half the ER admissions are pediatrics, and if I want to deal with psycho kids I just go visit my own, I'm not dealing with anybody else's. D) They want aggressive patient admissions done on the units they're being admitted to. For example: there was a guy running around the city in a loin cloth carrying a mallet and a butcher knife. He ended up in our ER and before the meds kicked in he masturbated to completion on an ER window. He came up to us in four points, but heavily medicated. I guess we'll now be devoting staff to having patients in seclusion for those behaviors because our ER, that does next to nothing now, will be doing even less? I hate regime changes. They always come on with these big ideas. This bitch thinks she's turning this dump into a magnet status hospital 🤣
C) Really? But it's 'for the children'.
Everyone wants to make their mark.........trying something different. I don't necessarily disagree with new things if the olde hasn't worked.........but your situation just plain sounds like a lack of bodies to help and regulations/restrictions on what you're allowed to do with whackos. I do not envy you. I also think a good many 'bleeding heart' types should be forced to do some community service in those areas........so maybe they'd get a real dose of reality for once.
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Post by spitfire926f on May 27, 2023 12:09:39 GMT
So we recently got a new CEO, same one who shut down the shift bonuses. She thinks she's going to pull nurses from the floors to the ER to be an admission nurse. A) This is against our contract with the union. We can't get pulled from our unit so the union will be grieving this. B) There aren't enough nurses to pull from the floors to do this. There really won't be now that the shift bonuses were axed. C) I'm not doing it. Half the ER admissions are pediatrics, and if I want to deal with psycho kids I just go visit my own, I'm not dealing with anybody else's. D) They want aggressive patient admissions done on the units they're being admitted to. For example: there was a guy running around the city in a loin cloth carrying a mallet and a butcher knife. He ended up in our ER and before the meds kicked in he masturbated to completion on an ER window. He came up to us in four points, but heavily medicated. I guess we'll now be devoting staff to having patients in seclusion for those behaviors because our ER, that does next to nothing now, will be doing even less? I hate regime changes. They always come on with these big ideas. This bitch thinks she's turning this dump into a magnet status hospital 🤣
C) Really? But it's 'for the children'.
Everyone wants to make their mark.........trying something different. I don't necessarily disagree with new things if the olde hasn't worked.........but your situation just plain sounds like a lack of bodies to help and regulations/restrictions on what you're allowed to do with whackos. I do not envy you. I also think a good many 'bleeding heart' types should be forced to do some community service in those areas........so maybe they'd get a real dose of reality for once.
The guy in the loin cloth? Completely drug induced BTW. He was discharged a couple days later, nicest guy ever. Don't do drugs, kids. You'll end up some fucked up urban Tarzan in my ER. |
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