Poll on job satisfaction

askater11 · Aug 31, 2003

1) happy

2)people are very friendly (dr., ancillary, R.N. etc.)

Best nurse pt. ratio out of previous 2 employers

Flexiblity--I work the days I want to. (though most of that's my contigency status--I don't know how flexible they are for FT or PT nurses)

3)I'm not sure. I could come up with assumptions but that's about it.

nesje30 · Aug 31, 2003

1. Happy

2. nice team, hard work, time for care (work on icu)

3. don't really know

ahill1000 · Sep 2, 2003

1) I am extremely happy, I love my job.

2) I work what we call at our hospital, in house pool. So, I make twice as much, I rotate all over the same hospital (thereby ruling out stagnation), and I make my own schedule. No benefits though, but this works for me considering my husband's is much better anyway. And it doesn't hurt that co-workers are very nice. I would have to exclude a few CNAs which on certain days make me rethink just how much I do like my job. But the feeling passes.

3) I really couldn't tell you. Sounds to me like they are hard headed. For how many years now has research shown that by decreasing the nurse-patient ratio, you get a happier nurse? Sounds easy huh? Then explain to me why even in this day of this severe nursing shortage, hospital administrations continue to lay off nurses and have mandatory retirements? Yeah, our hospital did that just a year ago. I think their priorities are now and always have been aimed at the wrong things! Money and pleasing the MDs. Yeah, you need the MDs to send you their patients, but what are they going to do when there's noone to care for them? I don't think they look far enough ahead into the future.

Fbgtexas · Sep 3, 2003

I am pleased to see that so far 3 out of 3 are generally happy in their jobs.

Ahill1000 thank you for your comments on why we continue with more of the same. I think that about sums up my feelings also.

live4today, RN · Sep 3, 2003

Originally posted by Fbgtexas
My questions are- 1.Are you happy or unhappy in your job?
2.Why do you think you are happy or unhappy in your job?
3. Why do you think employers continue the status quo when they could read from the research how to improve your job?

1. unhappy

2. bs on the job...poor mgmt...too much UNnecessary paperwork...level of patient care to high for one nurse to safely manage the patient assignment of 5 or 6 pts., their family members, and be able to relay necessary information to the docs regarding patient hx. Not enough time to truly know the patients we care for anymore.

3. Employers don't have to sweat and pound the cement of the unit hallways like we do. They earn their fat checks, wear their nice clothes to work, eat for an hour at lunch, arrive at work later and go home ON TIME, and never work holidays or weekends.

So much more to say, but............. :rolleyes: ........what's the point?

t-11 · Sep 4, 2003

1. extremely unhappy.

2.the company i work for has only one goal-profit. it does not matter how long you have worked for them or how good a nurse you are. once you are at market, they want you to leave, and they will find any reason to write you up. moral at our facility is as low as it can get, short of people jumping out of windows. i would still be working at the hospital where i was if it hadn't closed. i am 52 and never thought i would be in such a position. this place has absolutey no loyalty to their employees.

3. they do not care.

asil · Sep 5, 2003

1. unhappy

2. short staff/ not enough respect

3. I think the reason the current nursing situation has not been fixed is because hospital administrators do not focus on nursing. They focus on the doctors and on money.

live4today, RN · Sep 5, 2003

Originally posted by asil
1. unhappy
2. short staff/ not enough respect
3. I think the reason the current nursing situation has not been fixed is because hospital administrators do not focus on nursing. They focus on the doctors and on money.

Amen! Especially about hospital admin focusing on doctors and money and not on the nursing staff. We are slaves for them....nothing more. It's obvious by the way we are ignored, treated, disrespected, and written up for reasons that nurses use to have autonomy over.

sloveladyg · Sep 5, 2003

1. Unhappy

2. Mainly because my manager doesn't manage, she allows anyone to act as mgrs, thus creating animosity by staff mbrs. These is no team-work, it's every man for himself.

3. Because it's too much trouble. It's easier to keep things the way they've always been

webbiedebbie · Sep 5, 2003

1) Unhappy

2) Short staffing

3) Administration only want warm bodies. My hospital is staffed with a ratio of 6-8 patients regardless of what their needs are. Not to mention the patient's families involved.

Sometimes, the warm body is a CNA. "You have 3 people working...that should be enough". Sometimes we get as many as 4-6 admits/shift, but that doesn't matter. By the end of the shift, we could have as many as 8-10 patients each! Not to mention getting patients ready for surgery that are admitted at 5 a.m. and taking them to surgery at the end of our shift.

We also are responsible for the babies who stay with their moms. We don't do the assessments and blood tests, but we do a lot of teaching (if we have time).

Fbgtexas · Sep 5, 2003

Thanks Debbie for the input. I hope you can find a spot somewhere you can enjoy nursing better than this. I can certainly see why you would be unhappy with what you have.