Over 30 years as a RN. Level I trauma OR nurse. ICU/CCU. 17 years in ER from ABQ to Denver to Phoenix to Las Vegas to . . . .. Dialysis nurse in only one of two prisons in the state of Texas to do dialysis and it is the forensic psych unit one - all the patients are crazy as loons and did horrific crimes to be there. Murder, rape . . .. Was fired this morning. By a fat assed manager who never ever sets foot on a treatment floor. The reason? I am not happy where I'm at and it shows. According to her. According to me it's their hiring of multiple inexperienced nurses due to a lack of experienced nurses. Then they mollycoddle these lazy dumb bitches they hired. Patients have been put at risk including one who stroked the very next treatment despite me telling his nurse that he was not right and to send him to the ER. No, she didn't because she feared she would look stupid if nothing was wrong. I told her "I called this same doc about a patient a couple months ago and told him I could not quite put my finger on an exact cause but something serious was wrong with Mr. X in my opinion but I had no diagnostic tools to find out why". The doc said if I felt that way then send him on. I did. The man had a 2nd degree Mallory Weiss tear in his GE junction where his esophagus enters the stomach. Veins, the size of your little finger for a couple of them, all exposed as a result of years of drinking. One more good heave and he could have torn those veins, even if just one, and bled to death before the ambulance arrived. Good call, nurse, he said when he called back. No, she leaves this poor man being treated and then sent home to return his next scheduled treatment. He did, she put him in the cahir again and hooked him up to dialysis - and he fucking strokes in the chair soon after. Now he's a permanent fucking cripple who has a hard time even asking to shit. Her? She's as happy as a pig in shit because nobody but me will say anything. Except for everyone to not admit any possible culpability according to our legal department. really? No shit? But what about this poor man, now trapped in a dysfunctional body? I could go on with story after story from just this past 15 months. I won't. Suffice to say at my age I tolerate shoddiness not at all. I went into nursing to obtain training in a profession with a secure future. I never had a single dream of going in to take care of people shitting in bed or arriving dead in the ER shot to death at 9 or any of that other shit. I am not a co-dependent in other words. But by God - when I have patients under my care, and this includes prisoners or the most despicable free soul alive, you will get the best care I can render if that is what I am assigned to do. This place can expect medicare crawling up their asses ASAP.
Somebody whispered "nursing shortage" and every Tom Dick and Harriet ran out to be a nurse. Now we are absolutely flooded with young bitchy maddening little shits who just want money and care nothing about people.
