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Which Best Hospitals Have Great (and Not So Great) Nurses

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what do you rate these hospitals in new jersey st. clairs in denvil, and dover. in nursing and doctors care.

mary marhefka of NJ 5:25AM July 15, 2010

case fourth away 100

egbertanix of ID 2:02PM July 10, 2010

Best RNs are in MA. Brigham & Women's Hospital are well known for high retention in nurses. Patient surveys also show how awesome the nurses are too! Typically on a med-surg floor, patient-nurse ratio is 4 or 5-1. Most of the nurses working there love it and would never work anywhere else (or if they have, they tend to come back to BWH).

Brian of MA 11:01PM July 01, 2010

Wow, Quit RN...those are the thoughts of a burned out nurse, as well as a xenophobic and racist person. I am glad that you quit the field, because you are honestly a discredit to the patients, the place you work in, your colleagues, but most of all, to society. There are too many issues with the healthcare system and too many sick patients who do not need to feel the brunt of your personal and offending opinions placed on them. I'm surprised that they allowed uneducated people (apparently you've either been out school for too long and forgot how to spell, or you haven't had enough education!) like you to be in the profession. You are by far the worse example of a nurse that I have ever known. Personally, I've always believed in the importance of teamwork, as well as giving your best, at work. Instead of complaining & having such negative thoughts, there are more proactive ways of addressing issues, such as approaching your union, your management, or even your charge nurse. Progress can never occur with such negativity, especially within the profession. However, I do believe that for all the hard work that nurses do, we are definitely entitled to higher pay raises as well as safe staffing; i.e. appropriate nurse-patient ratios. Also, it would be great if there were less occupational hazards (nurses are 16% more likely to experience violence at work), appropriate supporting resources, and adequate materials provided to us. Nursing requires so much out of a person. Let's take care of our nurses too and not just our patients!

S.M. of MA 10:42PM July 01, 2010

In public opinion polls, nurses rank first as the most trustworthy and honorable profession. There's a reason for that.
Yet Garbagemen make more money than college educated nurses do in New York. Better bennies, too.
ANYBODY who has experienced a life threatening illness, had a family member dying, or needed chemo can tell you how worthy nurses are.
Hospitals are closing left and right, adding to the burden of the remaining facilities.
The docs don't give a damn anymore, (burnt by paperwork and the malpractice trade.) Corporations that hire nurses do everything in their power to pinch dollars to give themselves higher profits, leaving nurses with substandard salaries and equipment.
Nurses are forced to work overtime, are exhausted, and if you have family plans, fuggedaboudit! Many of us work UNCOMPENSATED many hours a week to make sure our patients are properly cared for.
When equal responsibility jobs are compared, it's nurses vs pharmacists.
Well, guess who makes more money than DOCTORS now? Yep, pharmacists make more money than god. And poor nurses, because it is a predominantly female profession, automatically earn less than their work-equivalent equals--in this case ridiculously less. You don't see your pharmacist working nights!
Health care "reps" and pharmaceutical reps? They rank right up there with the devil as avaricious, creepy humans who will sell anything to get their commissions.
A big Bronx cheer to you guys--you're robbing the public blind.
I can't wait for REAL health care reform! You see the data? People hate our lousy profit-driven system. I despise my "very good" private insurance!
Give us ALL good salaries, from the docs down, support the health education system, change how care is delivered, purge the "advantage" Medicare plans, cap Medicaid visits and abuse, throw illegals out of the country, make tort reform a priority, get us Canada's prices on the SAME drugs, stop the "me-too" pharma mentality on making redundant drugs, to gain a share of the market.
And yeah, c'mon guys, the days of giving an 84 year old a mastectomy to bring in income, when her chances of dying from it are extremely small, are over! There IS such a thing as too many procedures and tests--and it physically hurts us, NOT cures us. The health system, like our banking system, has gotten WAY out of control.

jean of NY 1:41PM July 01, 2010

all nurses do is complain and they make waaaaaayyyyyyyyy to much.....what do they do anyway? I am a healthcare rep and most nurses aren't around and they make the techs do everything, most don't even want to draw blood.....almost as bad as teachers but at least nurses work all year

rick of PA 11:59PM June 23, 2010

Poor staffing is the basis for all the poor nursing. Yes, there are back stabbers, fake-charters, exceptionally poorly trained newbies with ratios of up to 15 patients per 1 RN in places you would think could do better. That's right, 15 to 1!!!! And nobody does anything about it. I quit nursing this year because of all the internal factors. Not that I could not keep up with the rediculous pace...but all the bullcrap that made its way down to me. The Phillipinos are hateful, the black nurses make everything into a white issue and the male nurses think the world owes them a favor. It's all out of control. And you all can have it, too!

Maria of GA 4:35PM June 16, 2010

with all do respect they are so segregated in their own race... the young ones only one goal is .. to marry a white man. the old ones are intoxicated in their own fish and rice lunches... very disrespectfull and anything white is BAAAD.. FOR THEM.
america..? where are the white and black nurses? ucla took them all?

dudu of CA 3:20AM June 16, 2010

Nursing care
I have to agree with this survey. In order for nurses to do their jobs well, they have to have the time to do it. I have been a nurse for 25 years, and in health care for 35 years. Staffing ratios are critical to nursing being able to fulfill their ethical duties to their patients.
Nursing administrators have abandoned nursing to serve their masters in the AHA. Many, if not most, facilities continue to put profits ahead of good nursing care, and until, and unless, the healthcare reforms address this crisis, we will continue to have poor nursing care and lousy outcomes.
Mandatory staffing ratios, based on the California model, will go a long way to begin to solve this problem.
The IOM report was the equivalent of a fully loaded 747 crashing every day in the U.S.. How long would it take Congress to respond if we found that we could cut this down by 60% with the addition of one more person in the control tower? A day?
Too bad the hospital industry bribes our leaders into gross negligence.
John Silver of FL
***WELL SAID!
-- MOST ACCURATE DEPICTION OF THE HEALTHCARE SITUATION AS IT AFFECTS SAFE/ EFFECTIVE NURSING CARE OF THE MANY COMMENTS SUBMITTED!

GAIL C. CARLSON RN,BSN of IL 7:00PM March 25, 2010

Ive been a RN for 20 years. At first I thought I was a bad Nurse because I could barely keep up with the pace on a Med/surg/Telemetry unit. I worked my ass off for many years. I see no relief in site. For some reason Nurses do not count and have a minute say in staffing issues and pt care issues. The administration is against us. If we complain or tell a Patients family to talk to the administrators if their parent is not taken care of since you have 8 patients and 3 of them are ventilators and require massive dressing changes due to extreme decubitus ulcers. Then There are nurses who stab each other in the back. Nurses that are ethnocentric and do not want caucasion nurses to ruin their party. Black nurses with reverse racism. Being a straight male you are automatically expected to perform all of the heavy lifting ect.....
So I realized I am not nuts. I was working under a sort of slave mentality and was being abused by almost everyone I came in contact with.
Sorry but that is the truth.
I love Nursing I hate those evil backstabbing RN's
You bitches know who you are!!!

DAvid Nemeth of IL 7:32PM March 01, 2010