CA Hospital Secretly Filmed Women in Childbirth

[Michelle]

Apr 4, 2019 7:20:22 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

Apr 4, 2019 2:39:16 GMT -5 Saudade said:

The two times it’s happened on my unit have been different circumstances. The first, the nurse was very respected, had gone on mat leave during which the concentration of drug had changed, when she came back and tried again she was found in the employee bathroom blue and on verge of coding. She had tried to take the same quantity as prior to mat leave but it was a stronger dose.

The second time I think the suspicion was there and since we always have cameras on the Pyxis it was caught that way.

Nursing is short staffed everywhere so it’s not always feasible to put someone on leave.

We used to have cameras in every room as a patient safety when they needed constant monitoring. However, you had to turn the tv screen on to see it and could only do that when you weren’t in the room.

I don’t think we have as big of a problem as other places, but it is still a problem.

In banking there’s a regulation that every employee is required to take one full week of their vacation as a consecutive week (fun when you only have a total of 10 days and you can’t spread them out). It’s to look for patterns like missing money. As a teller who made little money and only had 10 days it really pissed me off because I couldn’t afford to go anywhere and I would have preferred to use my days as I saw fit (meaning for kid sick time).

but in nursing, that might mean you only missed 2 to 3 shifts since they are 12 hour shifts and in a lot of places count you full time if you work 60-64 hours a pay period. And the patient population varies in that time too. It isn’t the same as cash trends every day.

And also like you it would piss our nurses off to force schedule periods of time that are meaningful enough for that schedule. Nurses in situations like yours prefer to sell their PTO or let it roll over year over year. Our PTO rollover never maxes out.

[Saudade]

Apr 4, 2019 7:20:22 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

Apr 4, 2019 2:39:16 GMT -5 Saudade said:

The two times it’s happened on my unit have been different circumstances. The first, the nurse was very respected, had gone on mat leave during which the concentration of drug had changed, when she came back and tried again she was found in the employee bathroom blue and on verge of coding. She had tried to take the same quantity as prior to mat leave but it was a stronger dose.

The second time I think the suspicion was there and since we always have cameras on the Pyxis it was caught that way.

Nursing is short staffed everywhere so it’s not always feasible to put someone on leave.

We used to have cameras in every room as a patient safety when they needed constant monitoring. However, you had to turn the tv screen on to see it and could only do that when you weren’t in the room.

I don’t think we have as big of a problem as other places, but it is still a problem.

In banking there’s a regulation that every employee is required to take one full week of their vacation as a consecutive week (fun when you only have a total of 10 days and you can’t spread them out). It’s to look for patterns like missing money. As a teller who made little money and only had 10 days it really pissed me off because I couldn’t afford to go anywhere and I would have preferred to use my days as I saw fit (meaning for kid sick time).

Ahhhh I didn’t know that. I wish we had that! Would be awesome for morale

[Saudade]

As Michelle noted, it would really mess up staffing. But it also wouldn’t do much because things fluctuate so much. Also regarding pto, at least for us, we max out and frequently either have to give it up because it maxes out, or sell back the max (80hrs) every year. We are rarely allowed to take pto enough to drain the bank.

[Saudade]

Plus, we accrue at an hourly rate, so anytime anyone works OT(which is frequently) we get even more PTO. So lots of us have to lose pto 🤬

[penguingrrl]

Apr 4, 2019 7:30:21 GMT -5 Michelle said:

Apr 4, 2019 7:20:22 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

In banking there’s a regulation that every employee is required to take one full week of their vacation as a consecutive week (fun when you only have a total of 10 days and you can’t spread them out). It’s to look for patterns like missing money. As a teller who made little money and only had 10 days it really pissed me off because I couldn’t afford to go anywhere and I would have preferred to use my days as I saw fit (meaning for kid sick time).

but in nursing, that might mean you only missed 2 to 3 shifts since they are 12 hour shifts and in a lot of places count you full time if you work 60-64 hours a pay period. And the patient population varies in that time too. It isn’t the same as cash trends every day.

And also like you it would piss our nurses off to force schedule periods of time that are meaningful enough for that schedule. Nurses in situations like yours prefer to sell their PTO or let it roll over year over year. Our PTO rollover never maxes out.

That makes sense. It’s harder with a 12 hour rotating schedule. And yes, 5 days for sick kids with 2 toddlers at home eventually was why I had to quit. My kids got sick too often.