Reviews Received

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  December 4, 2022

   • Intensive Care

  Milledgville ICU- new manager every few months. Often unsafe staffing. Pays terrible.

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  May 26, 2022

  RN • Med-Surg

  Wellstar North Fulton Hospital Roswell, GA Area: suburb outside of Atlanta GA RN scrubs color: Navy Blue EMR: Epic Rx Dispense: Omnicell Pumps: Alaris Unit: MS Telemetry, 44 bed unit Ratios: 4-6 if you’re on a cardiac drip, charge will make a point to lower your ratio if staffing can support Patient population: lots of psych holding. Other half is patients waiting a month for facility placement. Cons: Small, old hospital. Some archaic practices and equipment. Decent amount of techs…for now (they’re all rumoring to quit). Some are great, others are lazy but that’s usual anywhere. Travelers are always first up to float anywhere. Depending on the Charge…some do give you trashy assignments. There’s a weird grey area of what’s considered medicine level and step down level. They will keep sick patients that need higher level of care with orders for things that are Q2. Lots of these patients rapidly decline and end up transferring right to ICU because they literally don’t feel like listening to what nurses have to say. Pros: Designated rapid response nurse; has no patient assignment and is not assigned to any unit. You can literally just call them for anything abnormal or if you can’t get orders you want. First time I’ve ever seen them utilized in a non-emergent fashion. They will also get all “hard stick IVs”. They do have phlebotomy techs that draw routine labs. Traveler friendly, though my unit was 80% staffed by travelers. Overall, I would come back again.

• 
  November 18, 2021

  Clinical Nurse • Other

  Quick feedback back - did not like NM. This place was literally being built from the ground up. About 20 pts per day with only two nurses.. The other nurse was a traveler. All staff there kept telling me they couldn't keep their nurses. NM used to tell me she would take care of this floor herself. NM told us that if we clocked out late, she was going to have to adjust our start time. Story of my experience - I was hired onto the outpatient infusion center clinic at this location. The NM interviewed me over the phone and asked if I had any experience infusing chemotherapy. I am originally from an inpatient med surg onc floor, so we hang chemo regularly, but not as often outpatient would have. Therefore, I explained this to her. NM also mentioned that travelers will need to help with regular floor activities such as restocking. I got the job. The NM was present for my first day then took a vacation for about two weeks. So I didnt see her my first week and towards the end of the 2nd week, she came back. She started to watch me and the other traveler more carefully as we were into the job for about 2 weeks now. She started to show us her way of doing things when we have been shown the way the other staff nurse has trained us.. She also mentioned that we needed to help with prescriptions, phone calls, and so much more. She wanted the travelers to do them in between patients but it was difficult because we needed to chart and plus chemo requires two nurses. The staff who trained me told me she never did any of those things. It was a small clinic but some days we see 20 patients. Then we were also expected to help with doctor appointments. The NM started talking to me and asking me about my experience with outpatient and I reminded her I had inpatient experience and that we hung chemo regularly but not as often as here. The NM seemed uneasy about it and told me "it's okay. We will figure it out together." I dont think anything of it because I'm pretty confident in chemo infusion. Towards the end of the week, I started to feel sick and let my NM know that. I told her I felt feverish, but maybe it was just allergies or the weather since I am new to this area. NM was fine with it and just me to watch my symptoms. That weekend, I tested positive for COVID. I immediately tell my NM and recruiter. My NM accused me of getting COVID from hanging out with my friends and demanded me to tell her where else I have been. She then told me to quarantine for 14 days. Monday or Tuesday comes around and I hear from my recruiter that I have been terminated because "they don't have time to train me." Lol.