Be honest: do you feel valued by your employer?

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Every company I have worked for since becoming an RN has made few to zero effort(s) to make their employees feel valued. I only have 5 years experience. Is this really what I have to look forward to for the rest of my 40+ year career? Are there any companies out there that still maintain their integrity? All I can say is thank God for outstanding coworkers.

Find me 2 more nurses WHO DO PATIENT CARE who will say the same thing who have done patient care more than 2 years.

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Why do you tolerate this???

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"Integrity"

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Specializes in LTC, Rehab.

Valued in some ways, yes, and in other ways, no - especially not by my employer (the corporation). My DON? - yeah. Director - don't get me started...

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).

I have to disagree - I work at a 96 bed locked Psych facility and we really are like a family. The management and bean counters have to do their thing but they do go out of the way in little things to make us feel valued. We just had a Thanksgiving breakfast yesterday where all staff were treated to pumpkin pancakes eggs and a choice of breakfast meats. There was even a gluten free option.

I have been with this facility off and on for 15 years and was asked to participate in bettering our adolescent department. This included hand picking my staff and being in charge of their training.

I am paid slightly less than I should be - but the trade off of being a highly valued employee is worth it.

I am truly happy there and doubt I'll ever leave.

Hppy

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
Find me 2 more nurses WHO DO PATIENT CARE who will say the same thing who have done patient care more than 2 years.

After forty years at the bedside (except for the 3 months I taught, after which I couldn't WAIT to get back to the bedside), I feel as though my employer values me. My manager, her boss, her boss's boss - maybe everyone except the CEO who still harbors a grudge because I told him he needed to wear isolation gear to visit a patient in isolation . . . . Just like everyone else who visits (or cares for) a patient in isolation.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.

A couple of weeks ago our employer sent out a press release announcing they'd been named one of the top 100 employers in Canada. I'd sure love to know who the Globe and Mail surveyed to arrive at this conclusion. Looking at the criteria used and the explanations for selection it appears the assessors looked only at ONE site - the newest and most ballyhooed - of a province-wide enterprise with hundreds of sites. 90% of what's stated in the story doesn't apply to other sites. Christmas parties? Where?? Music in the workplace? Right. A defined-benefit pension plan boasted about, with no mention of their attempts to change it to a defined-contribution plan. Annual performance reviews? I had my last one in December, 2013. Tuition subsidies? Maybe for administration and management, but not for the grunts. Generous vacations.... well, those are negotiated via collective agreement. The employer has little option but to meet their terms. I hope our CEO doesn't break her arm patting herself on the back.

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Specializes in Case manager, float pool, and more.

I feel valued by my amazing co-workers. I love them and we are more like family. Otherwise, nope, I don't think any of the staff are valued by some of our management but some mangers do care. I think it just depends on the person.

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NotReady4Prime's post reminds me of a comment I made about my one employer being named "one of the 99 best employers" in the particular area. I commented that there were only about 99 employers in the area!

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Yup. Co-workers make you you feel valued; the corporations, not so much.

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