Mental health RN - Mental Health RN Oregon State Hospital Employee Review

Worst management I ever worked with. The entire staff demanded reassignment when the nurse manager was promoted to the unit I worked on. Rather than ask why, the upper management stuck with this woman. She yelled at staff and blamed us whenever she got caught not doing her duty. Staff and patient safety were constantly compromised by her decisions. Nurses had all our duties reduced to paperwork. Management doesn't trust the RNs to do their jobs, they just want us to write up reports and put our RN on the page as required by insurance/medicaid. One unit manager told the RNs and techs they were to stand all night and were not to talk to each other. I saw restraints used as punishment rather than as part of process to protect patients from themselves or harming others. When a floor staff consisted of all small women and we had a violent 6'2" male patient, the unit manager refused us extra staff or some larger men to help manage safety issues. There were multiple layers of management which rendered years of experience moot. For instance, if we thought patient had a UTI, normally you would do a quick UA and call the doctor if it were positive. The state doesn't think RNs can manage this elementary test. We had to call a designated person (not necessarily a nurse) and report our suspicions. We were allowed to collect a urine sample but someone in another department would call the doctor and collect and process the sample. It was ridiculous and insulting.There were all kinds of processes that were not in compliance with CDC recommendations to reduce infectious diseases. Advancement is determined by nepotism and favoritism. Managers were petty and vindictive. Salem State exists to give jobs to local residents. There is a lack of concern for quality over a blind view that employees, unless they are management's favorites, are interchangeable cogs.