Facility need to be more orgsnized most of the time there is no paper towel or soap in one of these places (bathroom,breakroom) and that is NOT acceptable!Most of our time goes to for looking something that is easly could be solved with being organislzed ( looking for bendy pen, journals, phone numbers of providers)

To stay on top of things.

Add electric car charging capabilities for employees to use.Properly staff units.Fire staff that do not meet expectations after 30, 60, or 90 days. There is no point in keeping employees that do not do their jobs. It makes work more difficult for those of us who want to be here.

Better onboarding and training experience for people going into psych and unit expectations based on level of acuity.There should be opportunities to debrief and learn from incidents/errors/ codes to better mitigate recurrence.

Can everyone be responsible for their job and job description instead of everything falling on the nurse for example when a therapist doesn’t do their work in discharging a patient the blame goes to a nurse.Can there be a cut off time for admissions for example admissions that come after 6pm are not just it or admissions that come right after morning shift change while working towards discharging patients that have specific times that they need to get off the units.Can there be a limit to how many patients one can admit on their 12 hr shift the workload sometimes is heavy for example one nurse can admit 5 and discharge 6 which is a total of 11 and that seems to jeopardize quality of nursing that can be delivered.Most importantly could we have 3 nurses and 2 techs instead of the opposite because as nurses we work the techs jobs more than we do our own which leaves us no time to perform our duties well and in a timely manner.

Needs better staffing. Needs higher pay. Pay is low compared to other facilities in area. With more pay can recruiter better staff and retain them.Need more staffing to maintain patient safety and improve patient outcomes. Keep census full because units are easier to run with more staffing. Big units require a certain number of staff to go off units. When low census staffing it’s very hard to do off unit activities and cafeteria.

N/AIf I may complaint, there are several new MHT’s who take 20-30 minutes in their 15 min breaks. I would recommend to ask one regular worker (nurse/ MHT) from each Unit in private to give advice.

Train newer staff better. A lot of newer staff come into the job and do not perform as they should be. Back when I was hired and started working in the units (nursing staff) we actually enforced the rules. The dayroom closed at 10pm, re-opened at 7am, snacks were put away and not given out during non snack times, patients weren’t told by other staff members that they don’t have to listen to specific rules. It feels incredibly irritating when staff tell patients they can stay up and do puzzles/watch TV after 10pm. It is very unfair to other patients that are trying to sleep. Patients should be encouraged to try and sleep, as a part of their treatment plan (establishing a healthy schedule that they can follow for when they are discharged).We need to be staffed enough to do room checks daily. We need to FOLLOW the rules. Lastly, STAFF NEED to be taught how to properly do skin checks on patients. There have been way too many times where patients have been able to sneak stuff onto the unit due to improper skin checks.CLEANING-The facility is not clean enough. Housekeeping does a great job at working with what products they have. But the products are not good at cleaning. I say this because the floors are absolutely filthy, and so are the bedrooms and patient bathrooms. I think it is completely unfair to patients to be stuck somewhere that isn’t the cleanest possible. Patients use showers that have been used by other patients that haven’t been properly cleaned. I think some patients should at least be given shower shoes if they aren’t getting cleaned enough. That being said; nursing staff should have access to cleaning products to do some cleaning when needed. The wipes we are provided for cleaning aren’t very affective and leave residue all over the surfaces we clean. It is very irritating when surfaces are sticky after they were just cleaned. Bring back the old cavi wipes.We are lucky to have great supervisors though. Melissa, Veronica, and Tony are all amazing and caring individuals who deserve more credit. Same goes for Adrianne and Trinity!Thank youNew hires need to be taught better about patient safety and rules.

Empathy trainingN/A

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