Now there is a website that will allow us to evaluate our workplace. We have been evaluated and rated, I think we have all the right as nurses to evaluate them, how hospitals treated us. THis kind of career is one of the stressful and they keep on stepping on our heads. It is our time to evaluate them so in the future nurses will have job reference. THe website is:
Where nurses evaluate their workplace. Rate your workplace now.
I think its time for nurses to unite to make a big change. No wonder we are short of nurses everywhere!
After today, I'm ready to actively pursue non-hospital based practice. Actually, I've been ready for awhile but the income has kept me in place. While that's still important, it really doesn't matter as much as it used to.
Not so gratified anymore,
R
Mind you, hit the Rubber Room to let loose! Remind me to duck.....
Relax, No need to duck. Nothing will be let loose.
R
We have cried, pleaded, left notes for our nurse manager, maint. crew to clean the vents at the nursing station since particles of "floaters" constantly waft on our heads, clothes, work, and the doctors. This is endless asking. I have been here 5+ yrs and we still ask. Thru stuffy noses, sneezing, sinus problems of many I work with and will say it probably is the vents. but glory hallelujah a miracle happened! The vents do not blow anything and the air is stifling. 2 days ago it was 95 outside and it felt 80 inside. We are all sweating, patients sweating, and denial there is a problem continues to those we speak to. I feel like I'm working in a 3rd world country, but I am in Arkansas. What's it gonna take?
Clean the vent opening yourself ,and charge the place?
Make a big show of climbing on top of the desks or bring in a ladder and start cleaning them yourself, in the middle of the day, preferably in front of some doctors. :banana:
I know this is a simplistic comparison but it shows what happens when after following proper channels without resolution and you take things into your own hands. I had this experience working on a Tele unit a number of years ago. After several weeks of repeatedly asking for a pill crusher (the one we had broke), I brought in a hammer. We used it for about two days and suddenly one morning, there was a pill crusher in the med room. Was I banging too hard?
Good luck.
R
When I was in the military I fixed a broken card punch, (a big piece of equipment in the telecomm center) in the middle of the night, because the IBM repairman didn't want to get up and drive in the snow. I used a can opener. After that I went around telling others that I should get the repairman's salary. I was quite proud of myself. :o
:nurse-rofl: I am about falling off the chair here. Too funny, guys!
