Just don’t do it! Unless you like your nursing license being on the line every shift you work. Very unsafe environment for both patients and staff. Staff outside of department are not traveler friendly. Staff inside the department are great with a few exceptions, and those exceptions throw you under the bus for their mistakes and keep running you over. Just don’t do it!
No consideration whatsoever for acuity. Almost exclusively primary care for 1:5/6 patients w/out any additional assistance. Nurses would have to raid other units for supplies such as pt snacks, computers, vitals machines, personal care items for pts. Nurse managers were aggressive, loud, openly bullying.