Banner Health – “Great potential, but losing focus!”

I agree with the summation of this reviewer. The general tone is "Shut up and do what your told". My job as an OR nurse is getting harder week by week. The scope of our duties has risen sharply over the last 18 months, we are being mandated to write orders in the computer to cover the doctor's tails ie; foleys, scds, labs. We are to be ordering beds and alerting the Supervisor as to our ETA. Jobs that used to be done by other individuals have defaulted to RNs. The latest salvo is being forced to create a document that has questions on 5-6 different screens, so that we can document the central lines that the anesthesiologists are putting in. There are such questions as 'when was the last time they washed their hands', there are questions regarding patentcy of the various lines, was the stylet removed? Why aren't the professionals who are doing the procedure charting on the intricacies of it? Because the administration finds it easier to shove it onto nurse's plates. The sad part is that most of us will run harder, jump higher and pray harder that nothing dangerous happens, as we stuff one more chore into an already frantic practice. When we raise complaints, the basic attitude is "just do it and quit whining!". We are doing more and getting less. The turnover rate in our department is exponential, no one from above seems to notice. The general concern with Banner is to provide a good face to the public, to appear progressive and personal. Notice all the ads in the Republic with the various administrators writing movingly about their brushes with cancer and other catastrophic illnesses. None of that warmth and caring seems to be trickling down to us peons who are viewed as 'a dime a dozen'. There will be a mass exodus when this economy eases up, it's already occuring in our department, now. Thanks for the opportunity to communicate.