Nurses General Nursing
Published May 19, 2011
Nurse Mentor Nancy, MSN, RN, NP
44 Posts
What are the major issues you have struggled with as a nurse?
Mine:
Unrealistic demands from patients and families
Doctors and nurses who treat you poorly
Unsupportive nursing management and facility administration
Not enough time and staff to provide the best nursing care
sharpeimom
2,452 Posts
i worked almost exclusively psych.
1. families thinking i looked "too young to have learned enough to really help."
2. families (and sometimes the pt.) expecting a quick fix that would last forever.
3. families who took the attitude that the entire "problem" was the pt. and saw
absolutely no reason why they should be in therapy to help resolve some issues.
4. lack of community program funding or inadequate funding for exsisting programs.
5. the very very real stigma attached to any type of mental illness. mental illnesses
are every bit as real as diabetes or heart disease.
off my soapbox! great topic!!
SweettartRN
661 Posts
Ethical issues related to unethical employers and co-workers.
This is the most major issue that I have found.
Medicine is a fickle field.
AgentBeast, BSN, RN
1,974 Posts
It's hard being a 6'2" man working in an area and with equipment designed with 5'4" women in mind.
Flo., BSN, RN
571 Posts
For profit hospitals
unrealistic staffing
unrealistic expectations
ShifraPuah
73 Posts
For profit hospitalsunrealistic staffingunrealistic expectations
I believe this can apply to any place that employs RNs.
For me, it is management and higher-ups that fail to understand that nursing doesn't fit into a tidy 36- or 40-hour workweek.
NamasteNurse, BSN, RN
680 Posts
Administration ignoring 'real life' on the floors
gossip, backstabbing, unprofessional-ism on the part of co-workers
too much work/ too little time
jmqphd
212 Posts
Fatigue! Disordered sleep.
imintrouble, BSN, RN
2,406 Posts
End of life care.
I'm appalled at what people do to family in the name of love.
Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP
4 Articles; 5,259 Posts
Screwed up sleep from working nights
Taking care of people whose life choices I really really disagree with
Decisions about how I do my job made by people who haven't done it in decades, if ever
Not being listened to when I have a crumping patient
llg, PhD, RN
13,469 Posts
Nurses not supporting each other.
NurseLoveJoy88, ASN, RN
3,959 Posts
-Delegation, especially to some of the lazy CNA's I work with. I rather just do it myself
-Confidence
-Nurses not standing together.