02-08-2025 ED RN

The GOOD: Phlebotomy was GREAT! I've never seen a phlebotomy department so on top of things. They will draw on patients without being told. Imaging will grab your patients and bring them back and put them back on monitoring.Voceras are their means of communication and those are mehTechs: GREAT!Night crew is hystertical and fun, as most night crews are.For some reason I couldn't get into a groove here though. It didn't ever feel fun and I felt, for my first time since my first job, that i wasn't keeping up. I certainly didn't feel a cohesion with my co-workers until the end.The Bad and the Ugly:This ER was very toxic. I've never not enjoyed a contract until here. I have verified with staff there that it is a toxic place, where nurses will tell on nurses. I was repeatedly complained about regarding cell phone use and charting by my own co-workers, even though I'd see all staff, even charge nurses using cell phones on shift. I even saw staff members on night shift wearing wireless earbuds. They eventually cancelled my contract after giving me anxiety (that I've never had in my life) that my team members would be watching me under a microscope. Overall terrible experience. They will nitpick travelers and that is unfair, given the chaos of the ER. They will threaten to turn you into the OSBN and they have often. This hospital is not a safe place for nurses that simply care more about patient care than the ridiculous high standard for charting every little thing. Sky Lakes is vindictive and petty, and it comes from the top down. They also are STRICT about hourly rounding and they AUDIT your charts THOROUGHLY. If you are a traveler there, you will be heavily scrutinized so be warned. They'll also make you drug test on your onboarding day, even when you drug test with your agency. I'm thoroughly disgusted with my treatment there, when at every other contract I am received very well.I realize this might come across as me having a sour attitude, but I simply have never been so bullied and picked on. It probably started when I told a charge nurse during pre-shift huddle after the said we can't put liners in commodes that I simply would not use a commode without using a liner because that is disgusting, and spraying out the commode bucket with the high-powered sprayer in the soiled utility room serves only to aerosolize the fecal waste. The plastic guard and PPE will not serve to protect me from aerosolized feces. After challenging that policy with the charge, that was soon to retire, I realized that she had the ear of the manager, and I had put a target on my back for simply wanted to handle human waste in a more sanitary way. The charge nurse (name rhythms with Shmulie) will tattle on you so watch out.It's a strictly run hospital and the chart auditing got me. This proved a problem after the last several contracts I had were less strict on this and the pandemic, I think, made ER's less attentive about this. Charting, I admit is hard on a day that's really blowing up with stuff to do. Overall, you might like it. But a guy travel nurse might get some

JP, RN Klamath Falls, Oregon