I was here when COVID was still pretty rough. They had 2 patients crammed in an ICU room made for 1 patient. There were many times I had to take 3 pts (all critically ill). However, the charge nurses and manager there are the best I have ever had at any job. The charge nurses are always free and VERY helpful!
Honestly if it wasn’t for the people, I would of never came back. The hospital is in an area primarily populated with older people (75 or older). There is definitely unsafe patient/nurse ratio with expectations at an all time high, (rounding every hour etc). Management isn’t there for the workers and of course tries to make it seem like every hospital is this way with staffing. There is a pretty high turnover rate too. Er is full of new grad nurses with 5 patients each, even in critical zones. Be prepared to WORK for your money
Observation unit 1:5 NOC, Super busy, pt in and out and can discharge at 2AM. The city is generally full of an older population. Travelers first to float. Call center for overnight orders. LPNs help with admissions/discharge or have their own assignment. Cerner charting, a lot of charting. There are some new grads and older nurses, super helpful about protocols, but will definitely will be clicks. Over all nice staff members that are used to travelers. They are known to decrease mid-contract or cancel. 60 contracts were canceled at this while I worked there facility, and I did end up being one of them. So be aware. A LOT of stoplights on the way to work :/
Never again. I was “assigned” to a unit. Never once did I work on that unit after my one day of orientation. That’s right I was floated every night until my contract was cut short by three weeks. Out of no where half the travelers contracts were all cut short and there was tons of new travelers coming in with contracts at lower rates. They never tried to negotiate or anything with us. I also was required to float to another hospital, Banner Boswell. Zero direction or assistance on where to go, what to do when I got there. You don’t have unit changes nurses, they just wander around between units doing nothing but socializing with staff. The staff I had to work with was awful. They all sat around watching Netflix and shopping, worked all the techs like crazy, never answered their own call lights. If a patient didn’t have water in the room for med pass, they’d yell at the tech and say they would come back once water was filled. Ratios were so unsafe. Providers were impossible to reach and they use vocera here so if you call a provider. You’ll have to baby sit and wait for the desk phone to ring, hoping that your patient is ok. I’ll never ever come back to any banner system.