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patient care technician

Bellevue Hospital

I've worked (as a traveling nurse) at over 30 hospitals over the years accross multiple states. And of them all patient care at Bellevue is in the bottom 5.

The staff here will tell you straight up they are just here for the pension. 

This mentality saturates the nursing culture here creating an almost complete lack of personal interest in the care of patients.

There is a staggering lack of personal responsibility and patient advocacy is entirely non existent.  

It is a culture of do the order without question and not one step further.

The nursing staff here has a monumental lack of knowledge both didactic and procedural. 

Nurses don't do basic skills like push dextrose or even place NG tubes creating some of the most incompetent coworkers I've ever had.

Standards of practice are an afterthought as insulin is given using blood sugar's from hours prior, Infectious patients are improperly cohorted and a slew of other highly questionable practices.

I can honestly say some of the patients here would have been better off just staying at home. 

The only way you can survive working here for more than a few months is if you have the ability to turn your ethical drive off and place yourself in the mindset of completely not caring. 

Anything short of that and you'll start every shift with your patients in their own filth entirely neglected and leave your shift knowing all the hard work you put into your patients will be undone by the "only there for the pension" staff that will follow. 

Bellevue survives off of the rare few that knows what they are doing and actually care about a job well done. 

It's the healthcare version of one guy with a shovel digging while 6 shmucks stand around and watch.

I can honestly say at the end of my contract I left this hospital feeling sorry for any patient unlucky enough to be admitted here.

Short of being rampantly corrupt and knowing about inspections in advance there's no way this hospital would pass any real, and thorough inspection.

I primarily work on the child psychiatric inpatient unit.  However, throughout my years at Bellevue, I have covered on adult psychiatric units and in the ER as well.  I have supervised many MSW students.
My primary responsibilities are individual and group therapies with patients, writing psychosocials and collaborating with the treatment team, caregivers and collateral contacts.

A typical day at work begins with a morning interdiscipinary report followed by "walking rounds" where the team meets briefly with each patient for a check in.  I have family meetings scheduled and run groups throughout the day.  Some days there are discharges which involved a lot of planning and coordination.  Most days I am on the phone a lot with caregivers and people who work with or know the patient in some capacity in the community.  I am often looking for additional community resources to make referrals for my patients to.

My co-workers are wonderful and it is motivating and exciting to work with such a dedicated, diverse team.  The hardest part of my job is working with familes that that multitudes of stressors and not being able to do enough for them in the short amount of time that we have.  The most enjoyable part is making small (and sometimes large) changes for an individual and at times family system.

On a regular morning at Bellevue Hospital, its extreamly busy, all 5 lines will be ringing off the hook. There would be at least 4 admissions on a busy morning, depending on how many nurese or beds we had available. Before I receive any new admissions, I would have to make sure that all the dischared patients have been signed out in our logg book and also medical system, check the room to make sure it is clean and also that the correct patient has been dischared. But that was never the case, before i could get to the room to check admissions would be sent up from ER. or OR , or admitting. But but what i enjoyed most was the rush, and teamwork from my co-workers. We had to do what was needed to get the patients into a clean and safe enviroment so we'd work together when possible. My most enjoyable moment will be around 1pm or 2pm when I actually got to sit for about 3 to 5 minutes with the patients before the next shift starts. I'd help by showing them a friendly face and made sure they had everything they needed sheets, scoks, TV, phone working, and called the doctor or nures if they had any questions health wise.

So what are the day-to-day EKG Technician job duties you can expect to perform if you enter this exciting and challenging career field? As an EKG Tech, you’ll work in a separate room within a healthcare facility where you will conduct the electrocardiogram test. Testing is performed with a special device known as an EKG machine, which includes a series of 12 electrodes that are attached to specific points on the patient’s arms, legs and chest. While the EKG machine is taking the reading of your patient’s heart activity, you’ll monitor the equipment to ensure it is functioning properly and that the electrodes remain connected to the patient. An EKG typically takes about five minutes to perform. Once the test is completed, you’ll create a printout of the results and share it with the physician or cardiologist for analysis, as well as perform any required record keeping and related clerical tasks such as updating patient history charts. You may also be asked to provide a summary of the test results, and you may need to notify a doctor or nurse if you detect an obvious abnormality that poses an immediate risk to the patient’s health. You will then prepare the room and equipment for your next patient.

A typical day is helping patients with their portals however you work in the same location so you see the same patients. Sometimes theres not enough patients to go around so you must make calls to patients at home. Somedays I felt the position was pointless because soon enough you run out of patients to help.  I worked within an agency for Bellevue so I didn't receive any benefits. I got tired of doing this work within 5 months. High turn around, it's good for a temp job. It is a great position for if you want to work within the hospital as an administrative clerk. However keep in mind they ask you to work a certain amount of hours before you can accept an offer to work in the hospital. In terms of career growth I think theres limited positions, and my supervisors always seemed really stressed and I know underpaid. They had to travel a lot from different hospital locations. 

Because i was a float nurse, agency employed I had the opportunity to work on every unit in Bellevue from the emergency room in the trauma center to the clinics. I would find my assignment for the day in the nurses office and report to my assigned unit. I would make my personal rounds and introduce myself to my patients. I would ask my patients if there was anything they need or information they seek and I would try my best to get their answer by the end of my shift. the most difficult part of my job was that I could not do more for my patients because it was not within my scope of practice. Unfortunately as hard as one tries to get the answers a patient is asking for was very frustrating, because again, not everyone who is employed in an institution is there to help, they only want their check. the most enjoyable aspect was saving a life or bringing one into the world.

I have always liked earning as much as experience as I can. Working at Bellevue Hospital was something I can never forget. It was an intractable job experience for me. All the senior workers there have given me so much time to explain me how it is for them to work there. I have worked with doctors, patients, families, and especially nurses. The nurses never felt bother to answer any of my questions about any patients. I had all the freedom there to work as I wanted. My supervisor not only made me comfortable, she also made me feel like a family. My job there was to talk to patients, take care of what they needed. I have also worked as a substitute clerk when the clerk went for lunch break. Sometime my job was to organize all the patients’ files. I even had to transfer some patients from one clinic to another. That summer I enjoyed every bit of my time at the work place. I loved the working atmosphere. I didn’t only learn one thing, I have learned many things. Working there not just made me professional and friendly, it also inspired me to be successful in life just like them.

You'll see everything and everyone at Bellevue, it's an exciting place to be. 

With the challenging patients, you sometimes also get a staff that's worn thin in energy and patience. You learn to understand that and not take some of the rough edges personally. 

I felt like I was making a difference every day and loved my job. 

I do feel like the patients with extreme mental illness and those who were violent were very challenging to work with, and sometimes just unsafe to work with. 

I had to relocate, but I miss my job there. I also had a wonderful supervisor. 

The downside is that it takes them sometimes over 1 year to replace an employee who has left which makes the rest of the team burn out as they pick up all the slack.

I’m a travel nurse and I must say this is one of the most disorganized hospitals I’ve ever come across. I worked here for a short period of time and had to cut it short due to how unsafe it was. The nurse to patient ratios here are outrageous and downright dangerous, little to no support on the floor from CNAs/Techs who prefer to be on their phones or give you attitude when you need help, and the work culture on the units is the opposite of team work. Even as an experienced nurse I felt it was too much and I did not want to risk my license. I recommend new nurses look for positions at top hospitals. Not only is the pay better but it did a world of good for me to start my career as a staff nurse at top institutions because you’re taught teamwork, and quality nursing with much safer work conditions. If you value your license and want to work in safe conditions I would not recommend. 

Management was always helpful and willing to listen.
Most enjoyable part for me were some of the people i got to know and become friends with. Everyone has a story and I love listening and getting to know someone knew is always the best part for me. 
Unfortunately the culture wasn't right for me. I was surrounded with people whose sole motivation was to retire with a pension. Nobody was goal oriented with dreams of creating a company or providing a service. The level of creativity and lack of enthusiasm of the employees was  depressing.
I did learn about Pyxis filling, and compounding various IV preparations.  
The hardest part of working here was learning about many hospital drugs i was not familiar with. Even though I like learning about new drugs, there were many times that I had STAT orders to look up and verify the recommended dosage.

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