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> management basically said it's not worth reporting because nothing is going to be done. Just call the police directly. > She was out of school working casua

> management basically said it's not worth reporting because nothing is going to be done. Just call the police directly. > She was out of school working casual shifts for 5 years before getting a temporary position, and longer after to get the permanent job Sounds like there's too much nurses on the market if that's what the job market looks like.

randycupertino 5y ago
> > management basically said it's not worth reporting because nothing is going to be done. > Just call the police directly. If you call the police to tell them that a 78 year old man with dementia grabbed your boob while you were trying to fix his nasal canula they are gonna laugh at you and say there's nothing to be done. For the patients who are chronic assaulters, MAYBE if you are lucky they will get transferred to another unit or another hospital. But it will take a LOT of really bad instances to make this happen... and all it does is turf out the issue somewhere else. We once transferred and old man who masturbated and threw his semen on the nurse in the room. Buried in his paperwork about 180 pages back was a big note "DO NOT LET THIS PATIENT BE ATTENDED BY FEMALE STAFF." But nobody saw that until the incident already happened. edit: Also, it's not that there are too many nurses on the market. It's the places only want to hire ones with floor experience. Nobody is willing to train new grads. A few places have new-grad specific programs, but they don't move fast enough or take enough new grads to help with the problem.
TheCapn 5y ago
>Sounds like there's too much nurses on the market if that's what the job market looks like. Uhhh... that's a weird take. I already talked about the chronically understaffed units. The issue is the system doesn't hire enough nurses to cover the needs of our healthcare system. They'd prefer to run understaffed and burn out their workers than hire more nurses and overstaff the units so there's some cushion
- 908B64B197 5y ago
  I guess that's what you get with a single employer situation; hospital can act in a cartel-like fashion and decide not to hire.

randycupertino 5y ago

> > management basically said it's not worth reporting because nothing is going to be done. > Just call the police directly. If you call the police to tell them that a 78 year old man with dementia grabbed your boob while you were trying to fix his nasal canula they are gonna laugh at you and say there's nothing to be done. For the patients who are chronic assaulters, MAYBE if you are lucky they will get transferred to another unit or another hospital. But it will take a LOT of really bad instances to make this happen... and all it does is turf out the issue somewhere else. We once transferred and old man who masturbated and threw his semen on the nurse in the room. Buried in his paperwork about 180 pages back was a big note "DO NOT LET THIS PATIENT BE ATTENDED BY FEMALE STAFF." But nobody saw that until the incident already happened. edit: Also, it's not that there are too many nurses on the market. It's the places only want to hire ones with floor experience. Nobody is willing to train new grads. A few places have new-grad specific programs, but they don't move fast enough or take enough new grads to help with the problem.

TheCapn 5y ago

>Sounds like there's too much nurses on the market if that's what the job market looks like. Uhhh... that's a weird take. I already talked about the chronically understaffed units. The issue is the system doesn't hire enough nurses to cover the needs of our healthcare system. They'd prefer to run understaffed and burn out their workers than hire more nurses and overstaff the units so there's some cushion

908B64B197 5y ago
I guess that's what you get with a single employer situation; hospital can act in a cartel-like fashion and decide not to hire.