Picking The Right Hospital To Work At
Summary
TLDRIn this video, the speaker emphasizes empowering nurses to make informed career choices, focusing on recognizing red flags in nursing environments. They discuss the importance of not being swayed by a hospital's reputation and caution against working in facilities that don't value nurses. The speaker highlights signs of a toxic work environment, such as coldness from colleagues and unreasonable expectations, and advises new nurses to trust their intuition and prioritize their well-being. They also touch on the broader issues of nursing shortages and the need for better pay and conditions, encouraging nurses to consider entrepreneurship and personal growth within the profession.
Takeaways
- 💡 The speaker emphasizes empowering nurses to make independent choices and fostering a philosophy of self-improvement and entrepreneurship within the nursing profession.
- 🏥 The speaker advises against seeking employment at hospitals solely based on their reputation, as big-name hospitals may not offer the best compensation or working conditions.
- 🚫 Red flags in nursing environments include unwelcoming attitudes, lack of support from nurse managers, and a toxic work culture that can negatively impact new nurses.
- 💼 The speaker suggests that nurses should be aware of the power dynamics within the healthcare industry and understand that hospitals often hold the power, especially in non-union states.
- 💰 The importance of considering pay and benefits is highlighted, with the speaker noting that nurses should be vigilant about their financial worth, especially in the context of inflation.
- 🤔 Nurses are encouraged to use their intuition when assessing their work environment and to trust their instincts if they feel a situation is not right for them.
- 📈 The speaker points out that nursing school does not typically teach entrepreneurship or investing, suggesting that these topics should be considered part of a nurse's education.
- 🤝 The video script mentions the importance of having a good nurse preceptor who is supportive and willing to help, rather than one who contributes to a negative work environment.
- 🚫 The speaker warns against hospitals that are overly harsh on their nursing staff, suggesting that such an environment can be a red flag for potential employees.
- 🌟 The speaker encourages nurses to consider their personal responsibility and self-assessment, ensuring they are not contributing to a negative work environment and are striving for improvement.
Q & A
What is the main philosophy behind the speaker's videos on nursing?
-The main philosophy behind the speaker's videos is to empower nurses by providing them with knowledge and tools to be independent and make their own choices in the nursing profession.
Why does the speaker emphasize the importance of understanding power structures in nursing?
-The speaker emphasizes understanding power structures in nursing to help nurses recognize where the power lies, which is often with the hospitals and facilities, and to encourage them to seek more autonomy and control over their careers.
What does the speaker suggest as the first red flag to look for in nursing hospitals?
-The first red flag suggested by the speaker is working in big name hospitals that don't necessarily value or need the individual nurse, often leading to lower pay and less appreciation.
How does the speaker define 'specialty toxicity' in nursing?
-The speaker defines 'specialty toxicity' as a negative and potentially harmful work environment within a specific nursing specialty, often characterized by coldness, unfriendliness, and a lack of support from colleagues or managers.
What advice does the speaker give to new nurses experiencing a toxic environment?
-The speaker advises new nurses to trust their intuition and not waste time in a toxic environment. They should consider leaving if they consistently feel unappreciated or unsupported.
What is the significance of the nurse manager's attitude according to the speaker?
-The speaker highlights that a nurse manager's attitude can significantly impact the work environment. A cold or unsupportive manager can contribute to a toxic work culture.
Why does the speaker suggest that nurses should be cautious about working in hospitals with a 'pick of the litter'?
-The speaker suggests that nurses should be cautious because such hospitals often do not need to offer competitive pay or conditions to attract nurses, which can lead to lower compensation and less job security.
What role does personal responsibility play in the nursing profession according to the speaker?
-The speaker believes personal responsibility is crucial. Nurses should assess their own performance and suitability for their chosen specialty, and strive to improve, even if the environment is not ideal.
What is the speaker's stance on nurses being entrepreneurs?
-The speaker encourages nurses to consider entrepreneurship as a way to gain more control over their careers and to create a niche for themselves within the nursing profession.
How does the speaker feel about the current state of nursing pay in relation to inflation?
-The speaker expresses concern that nursing pay is not keeping up with inflation, suggesting that nurses should receive pay raises to match the rising cost of living.
What is the speaker's advice for dealing with difficult or toxic nurses?
-The speaker advises to stay under the radar and avoid direct confrontation unless necessary. They also emphasize the importance of using one's intuition and not tolerating a consistently negative work environment.
Outlines
🚩 Understanding Red Flags in Nursing Environments
The speaker begins by addressing a request to discuss red flags in nursing hospitals. They emphasize their philosophy of empowering nurses to make independent choices. The video aims to educate about the potential toxicity in nursing environments and how to navigate it. The speaker clarifies that they do not intend to discourage nurses from working in hospitals but rather to provide insights into the power dynamics and how nurses can leverage their skills and knowledge to improve their professional lives. They also touch on the idea that nursing education could benefit from including some elements of entrepreneurship and investment knowledge.
🏥 Red Flags in Hospital Selection for Nurses
The speaker discusses the red flags to look for when choosing a hospital to work in. They advise against prioritizing big-name hospitals just for their reputation, as these institutions may not offer the best compensation or working conditions. They highlight that the quality of care and patient experience can be similar across different hospitals, regardless of their name. The speaker also warns about the potential for a toxic work environment, especially for new nurses, and suggests that nurses should trust their intuition when they sense a negative shift in the workplace. They emphasize the importance of looking beyond just the hospital's name and consider factors like pay, work culture, and personal fit.
💼 Personal Responsibility and Intuition in Nursing
In the final paragraph, the speaker talks about the personal responsibility of nurses in recognizing and addressing toxic work environments. They suggest that while not all nursing experiences are negative, it's crucial for nurses to be honest with themselves about their performance and suitability for a particular specialty. The speaker encourages nurses to use their intuition and be proactive in seeking out better opportunities if they find themselves in a negative or toxic environment. They also mention the broader economic context, such as inflation, and its impact on nurses' salaries, advocating for pay raises for nurses. The speaker concludes by encouraging viewers to engage with the content, like, subscribe, and comment on the video.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Red Flags
💡Nurse Entrepreneurship
💡Toxicity
💡Power to the Nurses
💡Independence
💡Hospital Policies
💡Probationary Period
💡Nurse Preceptor
💡Intuition
💡Personal Responsibility
Highlights
The speaker emphasizes empowering nurses to make independent choices in their careers.
The video discusses red flags in nursing hospitals to avoid toxic work environments.
The importance of understanding the power dynamics in nursing and hospital systems is highlighted.
The speaker advocates for nurses to have a philosophy of independence and entrepreneurship.
The video aims to educate on how to better oneself in the nursing profession.
The speaker discusses the red flags of working in big-name hospitals that may not value their nurses.
The issue of hospitals having a 'pick of the litter' for nurses and not needing to offer competitive pay is raised.
The speaker warns about the potential for a toxic work environment in nursing specialties.
The video advises new nurses to trust their intuition when feeling a negative shift in workplace dynamics.
The importance of considering hospital policies and how they treat nurses is discussed.
The speaker suggests that nurses should be aware of their own personal responsibility and performance.
The video addresses the issue of hospitals not offering competitive pay despite the nursing shortage.
The speaker encourages nurses to look for signs of a toxic environment and to act on their intuition.
The video concludes with advice on how to handle toxic situations and the importance of entrepreneurship in nursing.
Transcripts
what's up everyone so i got a request to
do a video on red flags in my last video
down
uh that i did the other day about red
flags of
nursing hospitals like trying to avoid
the toxicity of hospitals
toxicity of nursing environments and
things like that
and i've done you know we've talked
about things like that before but i've
never actually done
okay what to look for like i'm doing in
this video but what i want to say
i want to say something so you can kind
of understand my philosophy of where i'm
coming from when i do these videos
first of all my philosophy is always
power to the nurses
right i want to give nurses and future
nurses and upcoming nurses
the power to be independent and to have
their own choices
and to make their own moves out here so
when i talk about
negative aspects of nursing i don't talk
about it in the sense that like hey
if you're not an entrepreneur you're not
going to make it you know if you're
not a nurse entrepreneur making your own
money you know
i look down on you no no no i understand
what nursing is
i understand that we all have to be in
those hospitals at times we all have to
do that
i'm also trying to educate and and kind
of shape your own philosophy through my
philosophy
of how you can get more out of nursing
entrepreneurship
how to better yourself in the long run
so that also got me thinking okay this
is a good time to talk about this
these red flags and these uh hospitals
the one thing that i
also want to say is that every video
that i do
every single video at some level besides
some of the other silly ones but the
most of them
is that it's always about giving power
to you guys
through through education or power to
you guys through my experiences
whether it's in the er whatever it is
it's all about
giving you guys knowledge that you're
not going to get
from just a regular old you know nurse
dancing nursing
nurse on tick tock for instance you know
i always want to give the power back to
the nurses
to the future nurses coming up to the
entrepreneurs
and even if you don't decide to be an
entrepreneur i think you can still
benefit from this
philosophy of looking about independence
and getting that power back to nurses
because right now the power structure is
always based
if you're not in a nursing union like in
california the power structure is based
on the individual uh
hospitals the uh the individual uh
facilities
they have all the power and i mean for
good reason i'm not negative on
capitalism at all i mean i love
capitalism
but we got to understand where those
power structures are and
and the dynamics of how all this works
having an understanding of all of that
before we go forward is just key to me
because i think
when you're trying to convey a
philosophy or
something sometimes it can't be done in
just a five or ten minute video it has
to be videos that you've watched over
and over and you kind of get that
understand where i'm coming from with
these videos in my last video when i was
talking about working with difficult
nurses
you know it's because of the toxicity
and the in that power structure
that i'm trying to break down at least
if i can break down
a little bit to see how to see how this
to show you guys how all of this works
that is really my goal and hopefully out
of that goal
we'll we'll end up having nurses with
knowledge and understanding so when they
even if they're not entrepreneurs
they can at least go and be great
managers and build something out from
that because right now
you know that that power structure is
only still with the facilities and the
hospitals
and and that's you know for to a degree
it needs to be but also
you know these these hospitals you have
to understand what you're getting into
when you go and work for them
because it's not like you know nursing
school doesn't teach you about
entrepreneurship it doesn't teach you
about investing
and and may and there's an argument that
it probably shouldn't there should be
some type of course in
in there at least thrown in there to say
hey think about this too
think about this direction you can go
into so now let's get into the video
so when i break this down i want to talk
about there's two aspects of it there's
specialty toxicity and then there's
facility or the hospital toxicity so
what what can we look for about working
with those hospitals and how can we
make sure that we don't go get signed up
with one of those hospitals so
so i'm going to talk about different
aspects of that number one we want to
always look at
what does the hospital offer where is it
located
do they have pick of the litter because
here's the thing
you got to ask yourself and a lot of
nurses do this when they get out of
nursing school
they say oh they see they they think
this hospital is a certain way in their
mind you know say
let's just use emory for example in
georgia you know emory's got a big name
supposedly you know it would look great
on a resume to say you worked at
you know i see you at emory right well
guess what
the icu at emory is going to have the
same exact patience for the most part
within reason as a hospital in
birmingham alabama
or in new orleans if it's the same size
the er there say that's a level two
trauma center
is gonna be the same at a level two
trauma center somewhere else you know
so there's not much difference i guess
what i'm trying to say is if you think
you you need to be in a in a hospital
that's a magnet hospital
with a certain name you know because you
want you need to really check your
expectations because
when you get into that working
environment you're going to find out
really quick at those
big name hospitals that they're not
going to pay the best
so i'd say number one you got to think
about okay what are some red flags to
look for i would say
big name hospitals i would say any of
the hospitals that
in name only are just so great because
first of all
usually like let's take a a hospital in
a university city let's say
uh nashville tennessee right
they have great hospitals they're
vanderbilt right it's a wonderful
hospital
well guess what vanderbilt they have as
many
they have plenty of nurses to choose
from constantly
you know how many people want to move to
nashville tennessee right now do you
have any
nurses are coming out of the university
system right there in nashville and in
knoxville
that just flood to that because of the
the name only
well guess what they're not going to pay
worth a damn because
they have all the resources all the
money the pick of the litter from the
nurses
so they're definitely not going to pay
nurses well so i would say red flag
number one
would be stay away from
stay away from hospitals that don't need
you okay
stay away from hospitals that don't need
you and those are the big name hospitals
think
emory think vanderbilt think think
hospitals like that university hospitals
they don't need you right so why would
you go somewhere where you're not needed
right now they may you know you may have
other nurses in the profession that
don't know what the hell they're talking
about i've never done
ever they'll say well that's just a
great hospital and i i want to work
there
why why would you want to work there
there
it doesn't matter about patients don't
go to a hospital that has pick of the
litter
that would be number one all right red
flag number two is i want to talk about
you know
maybe you're a new nurse and you just
you're in your probationary three to six
month period
you're working with something like a
progressive care unit right
and then you notice that like as you're
going a couple months in there and you
start to notice that you know
the nurses aren't quite as friendly as
when i first got here
or the nurse manager is just a little
colder than she was you know maybe
there's a bad attitude not necessarily
with you but amongst the other nurses
because this stuff can really kind of
snowball into those situations where you
just have a whole
toxic work environment it is not
matter of fact i would say it's very
common that that happens
because of the stress of nursing too
that even you know you're dealing with
with real life situations so you're
throwing all of that into the mix
for just a terrible stressful situation
if a nurse manager
does not know how to handle that so i'd
say the red flags are looking for
coldness
uh look you know no matter what you do
you can't do anything
right like you go in there and you give
meds and something happens and
they're just frustrated with you because
you just can't do anything right
you know that's a big red flag for me
and
that should never happen to be real
honest with you a nurse a good nurse
preceptor
should always be willing to help you it
and i've seen some
bad bad nurse preceptors and i don't
know why a lot of them it's kind of like
the people that that go into law
enforcement not negative law enforcement
there's always that bad apple like this
guy was a nerd in high school like
of course he went to law enforcement
kind of like that with people who go
into preceptorship some of them like
just having that status and that extra
money while they're precepting
uh so you got to keep that in mind too
like no matter nothing you can do can be
perfect right
um those are the two number of things
you just start you that that gut and
that
intuition if you start to get that and
say you're a new nurse
you need to get out of that specialty
right away do not waste time do not put
in
months and months of of of just you
trying too hard and never doing anything
right that's gaslighting that's a
negative toxic nursing environment so
let's go back to number
let's go back to the hospital set up and
talk about policies and things like that
you know maybe you notice that the
hospital you're in or
or something they're just extremely hard
on the nurses
that's not uncommon either you know
they're extremely extremely hard on the
nurse and you just get the feeling that
you're not wanted there
right from the from the facility aspect
not necessarily the nursing specialty
from the facility aspect
that's another red flag you always have
to use your intuition
on all of these cases so overall i would
say it's all about
using your intuition in these cases guys
listen
nursing school i mean nursing profession
is not
supposed to be like this you don't get
this in other professions
if they treated people like this in
other professions they would be sued
i mean it just doesn't happen and the
reason is
is because they know that they can just
get nurses in there's a whole bunch of
nurses even with the nursing shortage
there's some hospitals that just
don't care and because they know they
can hire somebody else
for a lower cost even in some cases
you know and the other thing is think
about look at the pay
you know look at the pay that would be
the other red flag if they're not paying
nurses good why
even go there i don't care about the
name especially now with inflation
i mean have you guys seen the inflation
numbers the cpi numbers that came out
inflation's going through the roof in
the next at least three to four months
nurses should get pay bumps i don't see
anybody talking about that
i don't see any of that stuff going on
so always be aware of this stuff always
go on your intuition
always be looking at you know what's
going on in your environment paying
attention how are the nurses
now let's also talk about your own
personal responsibility in this
um there's that aspect too you know just
because
not all nursing is negative you know we
have to look and say hey
am i doing something bad if you're
really doing something wrong though
and you're honest with yourself and i'm
talking about this if you're honest with
yourself about about how you are
then you should still strive to be
better if you think you're out of your
level like i've seen people come into
the er and can't make it
but that doesn't necessarily mean
they're bad nurses it's just not a good
environment for everybody
you know i worked at er for so many
years and after a while
it was just like man i was just stressed
out all the time
and so i understood i mean i understand
that um
so you got to keep that in in your mind
too i'm not i'm not
putting all the blame on the hospitals
and the nurse managers there are there
may be some personal blame there you
just have to do a
a real inventory of yourself and see how
you're you know see how you're coming
off or you're not you're not fit for
that particular specialty
however just be very very careful and
always go on your intuition if you're
working hard
if you're doing what you have to do then
you know that you're on the right
path and you shouldn't veer away from
that so if you're doing things good
you're going to run into a lot of toxic
nurses
you got to remember that you there's so
many nurses out there so much toxicity
out there
that you're going to run into it the
best thing i can say to do
in those situations is kind of stay
under the radar for a little bit if you
have to
you know i don't i don't tell you to be
like me now i'm not the best example
because
i will go out there and just tell a
nurse manager to off i don't give a
you know i'm here to help
i did it in montana the nurse manager
didn't like the way i was doing i was
like
off and i quit uh i can do that
but a lot of people can't do that right
so i'm not telling you to take that
that action necessarily but also you
need to look at your entrepreneurship
you need to look at how you can start
creating and carving out a niche for you
and how you can do that
all right guys i'm just kind of rambling
now but anyways
don't forget to like subscribe comment
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alright guys peace out
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