There I said it, I absolutely love to hate nursing. I have worked in a hospital with a bunch of menopausal, middle aged women, in their sixties that re-live high school everyday. You have the charge that refuses to take any assignment or admission because she is “the charge”. Her friends cannot take an admission because they are her friends and she is “the charge”. She will split up the patients and give you the worst techs because, again she is “the charge”. The first person and only person to alway be sitting at the nurse’s station and complains the loudest. Her lemming friends and her talk about how they have 30 plus years working on the floor and they can retire if they wanted to, but continue to work because they are bored. Bullshit! You have no idea what else to do, call it what you want; bullying, horizontal violence, its called “high school”.
Nursing sucks because 95% of the population in this field are women and we are bitches. We bitch and whine all the time, but nothing ever gets solved. We back stab, gossip, and get people fired. Why? Because we are jealous, evil, green monsters. We like to ask 20 questions during report, even though we had them the day before, just because we can. We love to irritate other nurses and pretend that everything is brand new, why? It’s a sickness we thrive off of. We are killing the profession!!!
If we actually band together and fought together maybe there would be progress. We cannot move forward until we swallow our pride and work together as a team.
Why do we run short staffed? First of all administration and corporations staff inadequately due to their budget cuts. They want nurses to take 8 patients not based on acuity, but on a silly non-sense grid. You want us to kiss ass because it is about “customer service” and those patient satisfaction scores. How can we satisfy customers if we run short staffed? You cannot have an acute patient that weighs over 300 pounds that is non-ambulatory and incontinent without adequate staffing. Obviously it will take 2 people to assist this one patient, what happens when the other call lights go off, but the 2 are with this patient for 20 minutes?
Secondly, nurses move on because we get tried of being treated like a second class citizen. I do not know doctor why the patient decided to spike a fever at 2 in the morning instead of at 4 in the afternoon. I will make sure next time they spike a fever at your connivence. I am sorry family member I did not offer you a diet coke or your father’s soup was not warm enough, while I was preforming CPR on another patient! I am sorry the guy next door is crying out in pain, I’ll kindly tell him to “shut the fuck up because your neighbor says you are being too loud” And finally let me tell you that when your family member complains that no one has seen the patient or the patient is being ignored, it means you dumbass needs to come in and visit! They are lonely and want attention from you, not me.
Frankly it is quite sad when management reprimand the good staff, and allow bad staff to get away with murder. I get you keep the complainer because not only do they not do their job, they snitch in return to keep their job. It is perfectly acceptable to talk on your cellphone while you are feeding your patients, because this way you keep a close eye on the hard working employee across the room. Again we allow the wrong people to run our career and burn us out. We are too busy worrying about what other people are doing and not focusing on what is happening right in front of our faces. If the younger generation nurses are furthering their education to get away from bedside nursing, who will take care of patients if everyone leaves? I am sorry if I offend anyone, but this is my person opinion.
