You are part of the problem with healthcare today if...

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Specializes in ER.

If, in your "healthcare job" you never touch anything but paper, or smell anything but coffee, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTHCARE TODAY!

If your job description DOESN'T have an annual requirement to be on your knees, geting freaky with Resusci® Annie, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTHCARE TODAY!

If your hospital department is closed on Christmas Day, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTHCARE TODAY!

If the "alphabet soup" after your name on your employee badge is LONGER than your actual name, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTHCARE TODAY!

If you have an assigned parking spot for your 9-5 job, while the 24/7 clinical staff walks from their assigned parking 1/2 mile away, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTHCARE TODAY!

If, from your primary work area, you couldn't see an actual patient with binoculars, but earn twice as much as those who do, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTHCARE TODAY!

If there is an "RN" after your name, and you NEVER, EVER wear anything but business clothes to work, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTHCARE TODAY!

If "every other weekend" is NOT in your job description, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTHCARE TODAY!

If you've ever written a memo that had the words "mandatory in-service", "self-education module" and "during employee's spare time" and distributed it via company-wide email, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTHCARE TODAY!

If the trunk of your car is full of pens, post-it pads, pen holders (and other trinkets with a brand name drug on them) that you hand out by the thousands so you can bribe your way into spending 5 minutes shmoozing a physician, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTHCARE TODAY!

If you have NO IDEA why the blue thermometer tastes better than the red one, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTHCARE TODAY!

-- :uhoh3: 360Joules

(with kudos to Jeff Foxworthy)

Specializes in Geriatrics, Med- Surg.

Well said. LOL! This made me smile for sure.:yeah:

Specializes in mental health, military nursing.

If you are a short-sighted, education-phobic ninny who thinks that floor nursing is the ONLY thing that contributes to the health of individuals and communities, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTHCARE TODAY!

~ infection control nurse who spends most of her time working on research and tracking data, in business casual, thank you very much

If the trunk of your car is full of pens, post-it pads, pen holders (and other trinkets with a brand name drug on them) that you hand out by the thousands so you can bribe your way into spending 5 minutes (essentially) fellating a physician, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTHCARE TODAY!

This sort of thing came to a stop in December 2008, although drug reps are still allowed to buy meals for us.

If you believe that anyone whose role differs from yours is the enemy, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTHCARE TODAY!

~bedside nurse with some sense of perspective, thank you very much

Specializes in Trauma, Critical Care, QI.

While probably written in jest this type of attitude is encountered on a nearly daily basis. Most of us in our 9-5 (7-7 five or six days a week) dressed in our pressed business suits spent a some years in ICUS/Floors/EDs before this.

We may not be direct patient care anymore. I may not get down and dirty every day but, I am doing my damndest to make sure this department runs safely efficiently and doesn't pile on more stupid paperwork and forms that take my surgeons/residents/nurses away from the patients.

Specializes in criticalcare, nursing administration.

If you spent 41 years working full-time in every imaginable capacity to better patient care, you are part of the solution

If you came in to work on countless holidays while others took the day off, you are part of the solution

If you always put patient safety first you are part of the solution

If you took risks to improve the status quo even when it was scary you are part of the solution

If you got yelled at by a physician while advocating for a patient or for other staff you are part of the solution

If you ensured new nurses got the education and support they needed you are part of the solution

If you spent many unpaid hours reasearching best practices to promote better care you are part of the solution

If continuing education was not a chore but an expected way of life you are part of the solution

If you promote a healthy work environment by example you are part of the solution

There's too many more of these to write, but it's a great thread!! come on folks, this is one to contribute to :D

Specializes in ER.

We have crossed a threshold where there are more people making rules, and monitoring compliance, than are actually treating patients.

The primary product of hospitals has become "paper", not medical care.

With my apologies to the "business casual" infection control nurse above (who does not recognize satire for what it is), healthcare is in a state of transition right now.

All we hear is "OMG THE GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO "TAKE OVER HEALTHCARE"!!!"

Anyone who thinks government doesn't ALREADY run healthcare has never dealt with the myriad agencies that a hospital must interact with, and the rules they must comply with, to operate. The bureaucratic intertia in hospitals these days is stunning when compared to other "technical" and "mission critical" industries.

The only "FREE MARKET" in this system is how many armies of non-clinical people get fed before the first dollar reaches the hand of a direct patient care provider.

Yes, there are valuable non-clinical functions, and ANY organization needs administrative and financial structure to be viable, but my satire reflects on how far out of whack these ratios have become.

If nurses spent more time laughing instead of cutting each other's throats, this would be a much more attractive profession

Specializes in Emergency, CCU, SNF.

"If you have NO IDEA why the blue thermometer tastes better than the red one, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTHCARE TODAY!"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!:lol2:

If you have NO IDEA why the blue thermometer tastes better than the red one, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTHCARE TODAY!

:lol2::yeah: YUMMY!!!!!

Guess I'm the culprit then......

Specializes in ER.

Not to be insulting, I'm sure the floor nurses are not surfing the internet at 1:00pm on a Monday.

It is satire, not a personal attack. Chill.

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