Relocation hiatus

This woman needs to be shot: This one. Zarathustra referred to it over at Mental Nurse. Zarathustra, incidentally, is not an angel.

I may have said this here already, but the only wings I have are tattooed on.

Sorry for the quiet. I'm packing to move next week, and then I will have a brief internet-free hiatus. Be back when the dust settles.

Travelers.

MyHospital, like others in its system, decreased traveler pay by $3 an hour and by $500/month for housing.

It is offering $23 - $25/hr base for ICU travelers.

I mean....WOULD YOU?

There is little point in addressing this at NPC, as every hospital in our system in our state is offering same. They want to cover the shortage with the "super float pool" of ICU/ER RNs who cover our system. This sounds like an interesting idea, and we were still short tonight. Do that math.

Colorado can do this because people come here because it's Colorado. So you out-of-towners, stay home. It sucks here. Go away. Did we mention the four feet of snow in 24h blizzard? Go away. You don't want to come. We have....we have. What do we have? We have horrible drivers in ton+ SUVs that are perpetually clean. Stay away. They're like locusts. Those people just can't steer.

Three to one...

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.

....

What happens when your regular staff burns out on doing all this overtime on 3:1 ratios? The call-ins are just starting.

...

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."

....

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.

*my quarter-inch-long fingernails on a chalkboard*

So I got shift report from a nurse on ONE patient tonight and it took TWENTY minutes.

Straightforward post-op heart.

She wanted to make sure I knew about the order for Carmex.

But didn't mention the order just below it, which was to transfuse some prbc's.

....

I do NOT make this UP, people.


And we are all human and make mistakes. I make stupid mistakes. And inhale, exhale aummanipadmehumaummanipadmehum. Aum mani padme freakin hum.

Benadryl and bed for me.