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I was at work yesterday working my first day in (7am to 5pm). We had a last minute call at 4pm for a lady who fell three weeks ago and her leg is still swollen. The closest hospital to where we were was on yellow alert which means they er is overcrowded and they ask us not to bring anyone unless its serious. Seeing how this lady was not serious (and needs to follow up with her primary care doctor and not an ambulance :cough: :cough:) we took her to the next hospital that was clear of alert.
We got to the hospital sometime between 4:30 and 5pm. Now I hate this hospital we went to. Its in the city, everyone is rude and its a nasty nasty mess. Anytime I take someone there on a backboard (since they are a trauma center) I never EVER get my backboards back since they just pile them up in a corner all bloody and full of every body fluid known to man (state law says they have to clean them off before they give them back but they never do). Anyway when we arrive there are three city medics infront of us. The charger nurse who is a royal b just looks at us and says “your going to be here awhile”. So I’m like great and give the paramedic I’m working with the evil eye (my normal partner is still off with his infected arm) since its all her fault we went to this dive of a hospital.
After sitting for an hour and not hearing anything from the charger nurse we ask her when we are going to get a bed for our patient who is now starting to get pissed. She tells us in half an hour. Soooo we wait half and hour, no bed, ask her again and get the same reply. We waited so long I called the captain from the next shift (my shift was long gone for the day) and begged him to send our relief in the brush truck because it looked like we would be stuck in the hospital all night and I wanted to go home. So I didn’t get off of work until 7:30pm and the medic was STILL at the hospital when I finally did get off. The only reason the charge nurse made us wait was because the city medic units put the er on bypass so no one could go there. She gave all the other medic units a bed but left us sit in the hallway because she knew as soon as we cleared we would take them off of reroute and that would mean more patients coming through the door. It was just so stupid! I hope to the gods that one day she will have to be taken by medic to a hospital and they make her sit in the hall because they want to stay on reroute. /end rant
That’s why when I worked the ER in the hospital, I was ALWAYS nice to the medics!! The ER nurses (not all, but alot) can be really nasty, and they seem to think the medics are scum…stupid. And how lazy is that to keep you there just so they can stay on diversion!!
Ugh. Seriously, every job where you have to deal with all sorts of different people is going grate on your nerves after a while. I know. 😕
Man, what a biznatch that nurse is! 😡
It seems like a lot of nurses are that way. I’ve spent a lot of time in hospitals with all my past medical problems, so know what they’re like. Some are just real witches… like they hate their job, and everyone they have to help. But there are some nurses that are so sweet… and just love doing what they do.Hospitals are always short staffed on nurses (and other health care professionals), so requiring a good bedside manner has mos def gone out the window. Also, it used to be that the patients (and doctor’s) needs were the most important thing. Now it’s just the type of insurance you have and how much it’ll reimburse the hospital. These are just some of the reasons I got out of healthcare and into medical software. 🙁
The few times I went to a hospital I got good care.
The last time they probably felt sorry for me though, I had just been diagnosed with diabetes, was going to be in the ER all night (no other beds available at that time) and I had no one with me. So they were all trying to cheer me up when they gave me my bi-hourly shots.
So don’t bash all the nurses/ER doctors/Etc. they aren’t all bad…
You’re right. There are a lot of caring doctors, nurses, PT’s, radiologists, pharmacists, etc. No one goes into health care unless they genuinely care about people. Unfortunately, there is a high burn out rate due to personnel shortages. 🙁
starbreeze wrote:No one goes into health care unless they genuinely care about people.
It’d be lovely if that were true, but when you have such difficulty keeping some of these jobs staffed, you get serious recruitment bonuses offered. Incentives like that will draw people in that couldn’t care less about the patients (not that they’re all like that). I used to meet a lot of new nursing students and would just cringe to think that they were going to be nurses one day. I’m thankful I don’t need medical care that often.
starbreeze wrote:Unfortunately, there is a high burn out rate due to personnel shortages. 🙁
If the hospital Admins actually cared about their staff and their patients, instead of making sure they have the most money of the area hospitals, there’d be fewer shortages and more satisfied (and long-term) staff.
Oh, and maybe making the staff that’s on-hand actually work. Excessive smoking breaks and [often] worthless aides make it harder for nurses who actually want to be there to do their jobs efficiently. I’d get angry just hearing about my mom’s days at work… she has far more patience than I do. Cheers to the nurses who care and stick it out!!
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