registered nurse

registered nurse - medical / surgical

ct technologist

ultrasonographer

respiratory therapist

HCA Florida Brandon Hospital

This has all the makings of a good place to work.  But time and time again, nursing are let down by Senior Management. Staff ratios have increased, while additional duties have been added.  It has become commonplace to have no CNC off care or so swamped with management duties and are unable to pitch in. There has also a huge trend toward only hiring new grads, either through their Star RN program where they get 3 months training plus 6 weeks orientation with a commitment. Or 3 months orientation for regular new grads. Consequently as time has gone on. The floors are basically running on brand new nurses. Experienced RN's are becoming rare, new grads aren't getting the information they need and added to the current patient ratios are struggling.  As it is the first job & very stressful, they don't tend to stay more than a year. Then the whole cycle starts over. I have seen new grads orientating newer grads.  Consequently standards have fallen.  Experienced nurses have become burned out from the consequent double duty of being a nurse teacher plus managing a full load of patients.  I enjoy working with the many hard working and great nurses and CNA's.  Benefits have declined too with higher copays and deductibles.
Salary raises are small.   There has been a lot of expansion over the past few years. It is a pity  that despite saying they appreciate the nursing staff, the continue to ignore their concerns and suggestions.

Typical day at work is to get my patient asisgnment and look up labs, pending orders from physicians,who's in surgery or scheduled to go on my shift and then make rounds with off going nurse.My experience on this unit has been invaluable based on the wide array of patients I take care of. I love working with surgical patients because you see something knew and challenging almost everday. It's always a constant learning process. Again my co-workers are great and like second family to me. Hardest part about my job is trying to explain to patients why a physician is holding a discharge,changed a certain pain med or when they cry and explain they don't want anymore testing or lab draws and I have to reason with them and explain why it's needed for them to get better. I also work nights and I still hate waking patients in the middle of the night to administer meds or change IV fluids.The most enjoyable part of my job is when a patient comes in on death's door and the walks out on their own energy. I also enjoy talking to alot of different types of people.You always meet some interesting characters.We have been through 5 different Directors for my unit since I started. We just lost our 5th a few weeks ago.Right now we don't have a permeanent director sort of a fill in so our CNC's pretty much run the day to day.Our CNC's are great. They have both been there at that hospital for years and know what they are doing.

Despite all the efforts of the senior management to stay within the "budget" in order to receive their "bonuses", the staff, CNC's and the few remaining Directors are still on the front lines putting in countless hours of patient care, working overtime and sacrificing their own personal and family time trying to make Brandon Regional Hospital one of the best community hospitals around. Unfortunately, all their efforts will go unnoticed because this administration is more concerned about buying expensive flashy equipment/instruments  rather than updating, repairing and replacing equipment, instruments and supplies that are needed to care for these patients (you and your loved ones) on a daily basis.  The Surgeons and Doctors are equally as frustrated as staff and middle management because they to would like to be able to care for their patients with adequate supplies, equipment and instrumentation.  Please know this hospital has great surgeons, doctors, staff and people who put their heart and soul into their jobs. BRH needs to find senior management that cares more about patient care and safety than about the budget and money!!

A typical day at Brandon Regional Hospitl is when calls come from patien's family and they are worried about their loved ones. These families would tell me that they don't know the extension number in order to contact them. 
You can hear in these families voices that they are worried and nervous. I try to calm them down by usually telling them to take deep breathes. This seems to help alot . From there on  I can transfer them to their loved ones.   
I learnt that they are some policies you can not do. You can not give out the Nurse's Station phone numbers. You are supposed to transfer the call directly to the Nurse's Station.
I also learnt that when their is a patient in the hospital who should not recived calls form relatives or friends due to some circumstances, do not transfer the call.
I get along with my co-workers well and they always give me some tips to make my job easier.
Te hardest part of the job is that some people call and the phone is not clear enough so that you can hear or has a lot of statics.
The best part is that when a customer comes in to see a patient and they say Thank You with a smile, then you know you have done a job well done.

Extremely low staffing and bare minimum job training. Most staff members get a day or two of following somebody around and then are expected to know the intricacies of the corporation. Most of the emergency department is run through seven rooms because the rest of it is full of hold patience. Typically you have a nurse and some type of tech  Running the entire triage area where everybody gets multiple unnecessary tests done before the doctor even sees them and then when orders are put in the nurse, often refuses to medicate the patients because they’re too busy. Admitted heart attack patients will even sit in the waiting room and monitored for 12 hours, waiting for a bed upstairs . Staff and physicians basically think all pts are dumb and drug seeking. 
The system is so chaotic that patients actually get lost or forgotten about. I would never recommend anyone to work for Brandon regional hospital, or HCA in general. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The hours. Meeting new people (patients).

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lazy Lazy Lazy nurses who believe they are above the job and will allow call lights to go off forever before getting up to see what the patients wanted. No help! Nurses drink alcohol on the job and are uneducated! Brought this issue up to management but was never investigated.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Stressful. Patient to staff ratio was astronomical to the point that some patients were neglected and denied the proper care. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
12-hour shifts. Running around taking care of patients while the call lights go off and the lazy nurses just sit there and chat about things such as what they are going to order for lunch/dinner or what doctor they plan on hooking up with next.

Staff overall are ok. but constantly needing help due to Physical Restrictions. hourly staff are always gossiping about each other, Supervisors are in their own groups and are not professional. They really don't supervise anything and get to chill between meals as if its allowed and cooks get run to the ground, while patient side of service has a bunch of down time dont get me started with the night time routine.. since when do supervisors have it so easy?  If you're a hard worker, you will be asked to do all the grunt work since you care about your job. Honestly a bunch of old people run that place and if your younger and efficient you wont last long due to you pushing to be productive while the "old timers complain and receive help and attention. Good luck lasting at this location... also management will swear up and down they care but do they?   

1. If you are placing patients you look at the availability of beds.  Look at surgery and cath's for the day. Try to keep up with ED admission to keep flow going .  If you are doing house then you look at staffing for the next shift .  Ensure that all suicidal  patients have sitter coverage.  Trouble shoot issues for staff after Directors and managers have gone for the day.  
2. I have learned to be more organized and how to delegate task .
3. I work well with my immediate manager as well as upper management.  
4. The work place culture is: we must complete the job and everyone works together to make that happen. 
5. Hardest part of the job is pleasing everyone 
6. Most enjoyable part of the job is that I work for one of the best bosses and co-workers every. We all get along could not ask for better!!!

What is the best part of working at the company?
Very dirty hospital An also the worst place to take ur love ones or self they clean the toilet bed rails an remote anything touchable  an pillows with the same towels I could not be around that kind of stuff.. I left after 3 months it may look a lil clean but trust me if they come with that blue light omg someone gone be in trouble frfr an not to mention the pay bad 13 dollars it’s nothing best good etc bout the evs workers…

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Pay an mangers have no heart an also they dirtyness

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Bad ion recommend if u wanna stay alive 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Stressfull unprofessional  an sad

If you are an LPN do not work here. Do not even think about it. The boundaries of our licenses are being pushed immensely and the pay is abysmal ($21/hour and I’ve been nursing for 3 years). We do everything an RN does except initiate blood products. Do you love a cohesive, systematic, supportive workplace? Then look elsewhere. Departments just fight with one another non-stop. Management impedes your abilities to transfer simply because they do not want to have a short staffed unit. They offer huge incentives to work on days that they’re short staffed but don’t seem to realize that if they paid a living wage they wouldn’t have an issue. A new “rehab” tower just opened, with which they plan to float us. Also if you don’t like floating, don’t work here. Stay away.

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