MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center

Traveler friendly staff and management. You gets lots of help.

Rare chances of being offered low-census. Lol. This is both a pro and a con I think.

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rt travel work load highest in state while coworkers are sitting in the break room

Pt ratios are usually 1:5. Low supervision if you stay quiet (more below in "cons").

On 3West-Medical: So many "cons". Patient ratios go up to 1:6 , but once pt meds and all care are given, charge RN takes one of your pts and gives you an admit (so really 1:7) and then again (so, 1:8). Back-biting, gossiping, destructive culture of nurses and staff reporting each other constantly, photographing each other, recording videos and sending to HR. Charge RNs give travelers the most and hardest assignments. If you point this out, you are labeled a "complainer" rather than someone advocating for fairness. Nopotism and favoritism is rampant and cliques gang up on innocent nurses to get them out with lies if they don't like them. You can't just show up, stay to yourself, do your job and avoid drama because they bring it to you. Charge RN is in love with another RN and they sit together all night, doing no work, giggling and oogling each other in an adulerous affair. They then disappear off the unit for extended periods. This lovebird RN benefits by not getting afmits or he gets to handpick the ones he wants, passing the more difficult ones to the othrr poor nurses who arent sleeping with the charge. It is a toxic, toxic environment that is soul-crushing. Couldn't leave fast enough...and every traveler I encountered felt the same.