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Oh Val, I know better than to start on this one--but---my employer sent me to one of Wash DC,s best rated hospitals to do plumbing service work, only problem with the ratings are they are done by a company for the hospital and paid by the hospital. They advise in advance when they are inspecting, where they are inspecting, and what they are looking for. Then the rating helps the hosp. get funding. I ended up working in that place for two and a half years. Nurses were in big demand and got 10 thousand sign on bonus, 30 hr work week but paid 40, and all the OT they wanted. I was sent to a Ped IC room with a small child to check for plumbing leaks . There were no leaks but the childs mother showed me where a window was leaking and the mold was growing on the wall and floor. The child suffered from some type of immune deficiency and no flowers, fruit,etc was allowed in the room. I stopped by and checked on this kid daily but one day learned he had expired. One day a lady hanged herself in the mental pod.(wonder who was watching her? ) I worked in OR and what a joke. Had to don a tyvec suit, beanie, and booties before entering but once I had the outfit on I could come and go all day nomatter how dirty the suit got. Ive seen OR nurses leave the or and run to the convenience store and not change when they got back. I was allowed to watch surgeries, colonoscomies,etc. (so much for patient privacy). I was cleaning a drain in the lab and suddenly became ill. I was taken to er and sent to the critical care pod where I spent 4 days while they ran every test on me known to mankind but in the end even though they gave me a clean bill of health they refused to admit I inhaled something while cleaning that drain even though I carried a hand held radio to be dispatched throughout the hospital and over heard admin sealing off the lab while I was in the ER. While in the CC pod I was never given anything for personal hygene, bed was never changed, and room was never cleaned. I could go on but----hunt chatters have given the best advice, be there, raise HE** with anyone who will listen and dont stop with administrators especially if the hospital is owned by a bigger corp as the one I worked in was
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