[SuesquatchRN]

The scary part is how other nurses close ranks with management against the advocate.

[imenid37]

It is truly a shame that this individual has to suffer the consequences of doing the right thing. Still, think of the "free publicity" this facilty got by firing this nurse and how much they will need to spend to counteract it. I never cease to be amazed by the stupidity of some hopsital administrators. They can scare the employees who work there with their powerplay and scare away potential employees from considering their facilty.

[truthtutor]

patients are suffering along with the coworkers and not to mention the nurse who is trying to make a change for the better, main goal if we will stay within this profession is to take care of our nursing responsibilities as best we can without being negligent and when the oven gets too hot we have to leave, but always in good standing. It is sad that there are hundreds of good seasoned nurses resistent to working in hospitals due to the politics of things. I didn't feel I could provide adequate care for patients so I had to find a different way of being an advocate instead of in patient hands on--home health is not too far from this crisis also.

[Diary/Dairy]

Originally Posted by soliant12

This is a prime example of how doing the right thing doesn't always turn out like we would like. People have this misconception that always doing the right thing will either bring rewards(in a general sense) or make evrything okay and far too often that is not the case. My best advice for nurses is you either put up with the working environment or you leave cause 99% of the time it ain't gonna change, and in the end you will just be frustrated and upset with the likely end results

THANK YOU - THIS IS SOOOOO TRUE!!!!