Reply #18: I worked at a hospital in HIM for over 10 years. The doctors treated [View All]

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the nurses like crap. From what I saw, the nurses kept up with the patients information only. The NA's were the ones running the rooms; however, when the docs came, the nurses were responsible for everything. Always understaffed to the point that if the hospital had been checked (What is the abbreviation of that state regulatory group that comes every year and checks out the hospital -- It's on the tip of my tongue. Starts with a J?? It's not OSHA. Help).

Anyway, the hospital would be shut down. I mean by law (I'm sure you know this too), so many patients require so many nurses; however, every hospital I worked in, only when it was time for review did they have the right amount of nurses for the patients.

I hate it that in homes for the elderly they are always understaffed as well. There may be one RN for a whole floor and the rest are nursing aids (most don't even go to school for it), and when it gets that stressful, that is when the abuse starts.