Think about how you define a successful day. My definition is when I am driving home that I can say to myself, "I did a good job today, I am a good nurse!!" And I feel good about my work, my job, and my career choice.
Now think about what it takes to make you feel that way and ask yourself what you did to help make someone else feel that way.
My favorite quote is from Zig Zigler:
" You can get everything in life that you want if you help enough other people get what they want."
Tearing other people down, criticizing others, talking negativey, having a complaining spirit, whining about administration, watching your coworkers drown and not lifting a finger to help them--why do nurses do this to each other?
A positive attitude will not let you do anything but it will help you do everything better--another Zig quote.
What you may be reading is a frustration because we hear some pretty typical lines from our administrators...and we hear it year after year after year...and it is NOT a nurse friendly line of
communication generally.
It is frustrating because (for me and undoubtedly many of us here) it is a well worn line of rhetoric from our administration...usually boiling down to 'its the nurses' fault'.
Keep posting. There are two sides to everything, and nurses definitely need to hear from managers who are honest and can help us do better in communication with our administrators.
Yes! This is how I feel too. I am not flaming you either. Just am really interested in what you have to say - how should we communicate with management to have ourselves be heard?? Is there an effective way? I was just stating my opinion on the topic earlier. I can't help it but my mood changes drastically when I walk into work, and my load is 3 or 4 in ICU. And the charge nurse flat out refuses to take any patients. Just my opinion.
SmilingBluEyes said it best when she asks you to tell us the "hows" of communication so that we can be heard and the "what" to say so that it is effective. The same stuff keeps getting bantered around and no one suggests concretly how we can move beyond this stage. I know you mean well and it sounds like you are sensitive and caring. So.......I am also waiting. I want to see nursing unified before I die.
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we want our piece of the pie....who does not? we ARE the hospital, those of us doing acute care. And, we are NOT oblivious...we see how money changes hands and what things cost.....nursing is at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to increaasing budgets but no one says a word when the "eye candy" budget is upped all the time, to ridiculous proportions. I for, one, am sick of this!!!!!! So, I keep asking, is it unfair to make such demands? Hey, obviously, we need to learn the language to make it happen...that is why I SAY:
Ainz, yours is a unique position...you see both sides.
please tell us what works, or would. i really am sincere here. I ask in all due respect.
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Yes! This is how I feel too. I am not flaming you either. Just am really interested in what you have to say - how should we communicate with management to have ourselves be heard?? Is there an effective way? I was just stating my opinion on the topic earlier. I can't help it but my mood changes drastically when I walk into work, and my load is 3 or 4 in ICU. And the charge nurse flat out refuses to take any patients. Just my opinion.