Comments on: Healing the Nursing Shortage
By Roark on 09-21-07
Note to ALL future nurses; DO NOT WORK AT KRMC! It is run by a bunch of politically correct fools. You will get no respect there, either.
By pardon me? on 09-22-07
Can you elaborate on ‘politically correct fools’?
By Roark on 09-22-07
POLITICALLY CORRECT: 1. Of, relating to, or supporting broad social, political, and educational change, especially to redress historical injustices in matters such as race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.
FOOL: 1. One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding.
2. One who acts unwisely on a given occasion
(thefreedictionary.com)
The turnover rate for personnel at KRMC is amazingly high because of the management’s lack of respect for its employees. Their sense of judgment is retarded at best.
By Nick on 09-24-07
This, coming from Roark, is “retarded… at best…”
I think maybe they were looking for a better backing to your statement than a turnover rate with no evidence to support it.
How about this. In a 2005 study conducted in MT by region (Northwest, southwest, north-central, south-central, and eastern) the turnover rate for RNs in the northwest region was a little more than 10%, which was about par with 3 other regions. The best was the southwest with a turnover rate of less than 5%, and the next best was about 8%. So, I’d say that we actually are doing alright considering Roark’s statement that “the turnover rate for personnel at KRMC is amazingly high.” I guess if “average” is amazingly high, then most of the nation’s men should be porn stars!
Oh, and the vacancy rates for RNs in the region is the best at just over 6%... so it looks to me like we’re doing pretty darn good in comparison to the entire state.
In 2006, the state turnover rate jumped from about 15% to about 20%... no breakout by region though. So this means that as a state we definitely have a turnover issue, but considering our state’s wages in general, it’s no surprise that we’re probably losing a lot of nurses to out of state hospitals.
To simply single out KRMC (with no evidence for support by Roark) is so petty and illogical. If you took half of passion you have for (or against apparently) so many issues and did something productive instead of whining on message boards, some of us on here might actually consider your statements rather than casting them off as “rants” by an unstable, and obviously upset individual.
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