San Pablo or San Pa-blow

Wow, just when you think you've been to the worst assignment ever...it gets worse. And it makes me wonder about the nurses that work at these hospitals..is it just that they have never worked anywhere else so they don't know how bad it is? Or is it that they can't move and this is the closest hospital? Anyway too bad for them to have to stay here. This place is just as bad as the floor I was on at Riverside Hospital in Columbus, only this seems to be a majority of the hospital. They have had several sentinel events in the past few months and don't seem to be dealing very well.A lot of the staff nurses are very resentful and angry because of the strike they went through a year ago and are not nice to travelers at all. The nursing assistants I have met so far all have an attitude. And not a good one. I was told by one particularly unfriendly NA that the nursing assistants on that floor don't do all the baths and proceeded to tell me which one of my five patients she was going to bathe for me. They don't do vitals because apparently they didn't know enough to inform a nurse about abnormal vitals and there was a bad outcome. They also are not allowed to do I&O because of another mishap. Their role seems to be to bathe people, answer call lights, pass out the food trays and feed people...although they aren't allowed to chart how much they ate. Frustrating. I see these things as a learning experience where maybe they nursing assistants need to be educated in the importance of their job but this particular facility sees it differently. If they can't do it right then we just won't have them do it...so now they do even less for the same pay and we do more. It's a scary place. The only place that I have been to that in my first 2 weeks the state and the joint commission have already been there. No wonder these people are so uptight.
I have to commend my travel company and my recruiter. They are standing by me and trying to find me a new assignment.
The city of San Pablo is also not so great. Yeah it's on the bay but you can't get to the bay...oh, there is one park ,but you have to pay to get in. We will be trying out the BART transit system to go over to San Francisco hopefully this week. I would like to see fisherman's wharf again...it was very fun last time we were here.
I guess the only good thing is we were not in Bakersfield for the earthquake. And we are not in Cleveland right now where it is snowing...I'll try to send my friends there a little sunshine....miss you guys.