You'll be assigned NINE patients every shift; but, to keep it "legal", they'll also assign you an LVN and a CNA. These are mostly total care patients who are either flat or uncooperative for the most part. There's no medication scanning, no automatic medication dispenser, no open stock fluids, no supplies in the supply room. They're paranoid about cost containment - every single thing has to come out of purchasing, and most of the time you need to get the nurse supervisor to approve every supply request. It is impossible to easily navigate through a chart via their charting system and most of the physicians still write orders and progress notes in their illegible handwriting. Most of the nursing supervisors will yell at you, accuse you of things, jump to conclusions, publicly embarrass you at the nurse's station. This place has a bad reputation and some major hospitals will not accept your time at Kindred in your salary calculation. The facility is run down and dirty. You would not want your loved one to be in this place. This place has a lot of trouble keeping people. Every process is RN-driven, all processes are too paper-intensive, and all of this paper has to go to one person who you can't even find half the time. They complain about "junk overtime" when you're 15 minutes late getting out; but even at 5 minutes per patient, that is (9x5=) 45 minutes of report that they want you to give in 30 minutes. Administration does not have your back. Demanding family members can have their way with you, and all you'll get is a little speech about how you should just smile and not take it personally. The employees who have been there for a while have been so beaten down by this atmosphere that they may be there, physically, but they are not there mentally or in spirit. It's classic mismanagement and penny-pinching taken to its extreme.
