We're running three patients to a nurse in the ICU.
They decreased the rate they want to pay travelers.
Every ICU RN on two nights ago was on an overtime shift.
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What happens when your regular staff burns out on doing all this overtime on 3:1 ratios? The call-ins are just starting.
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And at Nurse Practice Council, we spent thousands of dollars for a Magnet Consultant to come tell us we should be doing research and "shared governance" and "peer review."
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I am just a stepdown nurse. I promised I'd go to this damn meeting next Monday. I think I'm gonna be a real pain in the ass and pull the CNO aside and relay those points to her.
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5 comments:
I work in the upper midwest; in a magnet hospital. Ya-de-da big woop. All it gets ya is crap from the patients----"well we thought this would be a better hospital because of the magnet status" Bite me you whiney little twerp!
All magnet status does is:
1. Gets the supervisors running around every 3-4 years. Actually, it gets them out of their offices and away from meetings---which isn't really that bad I guess, then maybe they can see how shortstaffed we really are!
2. It allows the hospital to crow about how "good" we are. "We have an outside source to verify all our marketing."
3. It gets some of the biggest suit and ties out of our hair. They have to wine and dine all those magnet surveyors don't ya know!
In actuality it doesn't mean a hill of beans to staff nurses if you are designated magnet. There is no increase in pay, there is no decrease in the patient load and the supervisors still act stupid.
Now if the gubiment would pay better for each upgrade in your designation; then I think you would see something!!!!
Steve
Now if the gubiment would pay better for each upgrade in your designation; then I think you would see something!!!!
Yeah. You'd see upper-crust know-nothing management types get big year-end bonuses.
Magnet Consultants?! Feh.
3:1 sucks ass. No doubt about it. The other day, i had 2 vents + a trach- it was HORRIBLE!
Reading this post and the following comments makes me feel so lucky to work in an non-understaffed hospital.
3:1? I'd refuse report.
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