@RNSuperHero This. Floating is dangerous if not oriented and access is given.

@TNCathRN And I’m a flexible pretty chill person after being a traveler and float for half my career but I need at least a damn orientation unit and fucking badge and charting access

@RNSuperHero A nurse is not a nurse is not a nurse. Mgt's way of dealing with staff shortages is problematic from a couple of perspectives. 1. It places patients in harm's way. 2. It's a slap in the face to nurses; it demonstrates a decided lack of respect for the specialization in healthcare

@LauraFoerster4 I have said over and over if they give me access and orientation I don’t mind going to ER. BUT I need what I need to SAFELY do my job. Until then. Nope.

@RNSuperHero If they are boarders for your unit why not? It frees an ER nurse to be an ER nurse again instead of trying to be a med surg/ICU/Stepdown for hours AND an ER nurse. Genuine question here. Because my ED if someone floated even helping hands we were so damn grateful for the help.

@madddd_rn Read above tweet again and again until you get it

@RNSuperHero Even if the put you in the critical care area, you can’t find anything to save a life. I get it

@jekahyde I just want access to everything and a basic orientation of who to call about what and where to get supplies like. The absolute minimum here

@RNSuperHero How do you not get fired for refusing an assignment? What state are you in?

@candacern59217 I have never heard of anyone being fired for not taking an assignment that wasn’t safe around here different then getting report and starting to work and then leaving which would be abandonment. Don’t let them threaten your license with a job

@RNSuperHero That would be a big NOPE from me as well.

@RNSuperHero I did the same thing when I was ‘asked’ to float from ICU to NICU. I said sure. I’ll answer the phones and restock supplies but I don’t know what they consider normal. Is a HR of 60 okay? What about a urine output of 100ccs? Mgmt never hit up adult ICU RNs again.

@RNSuperHero Thank you.

@RNSuperHero I feel for everyone when nurses who haven't been oriented to where everything is and don't have badge or pyxis/omni access are floated in for boarders. How are you supposed to do your job when you don't know where anything is and can't even pull meds or access supplies??

@RNSuperHero 2/I could no more float into a specialty care unit than the man in the 🌙. Treat people with respect, pay nurses what they're worth, eliminate the top heavy structure, remember your mission is to provide PT. care, & quit the pursuit of $$.

@RNSuperHero I’m retired and this was happening at my facility. It’s not safe for the patients or nurses.

@RNSuperHero They floated nurses down to our ED when I worked there that hadn’t been oriented for overflow admitted pts. They weren’t trained on telemetry for telemetry patients. I happened to be walking by and caught an inferior MI on the ECG and had to leave my post as ambulance triage and

@RNSuperHero You at least need access to supplies, & Pyxis or whatever system for meds is in use. Our nurses document on whatever module is available to them for nursing documentation for ED holds. So inpatient nurses use the nursing module, ED nurses use the ED module.

@RNSuperHero I was an ICU manager (7 bed unit at semi rural hospital) before becoming a NP. Our RN floats were most often used as techs.

@RNSuperHero This reads like a deposition your hospital's attorneys would rather not see