Do you feel valued in your current nursing position?

Depends on by whom-I feel valued by my fellow nurses, my immediate supervisors and some of my patients and/or their families (not alway both together). However, Corporate views us pretty much in terms of maximizing the bucks we can bring in. As for the public in general, we're pretty much invisible unless Mom is in the hospital and actually needs a nurse, and even then they are pretty clueless as to how much and exactly what it is that we actually do.

I feel valued about 99% of the time.

Patients, management, and the majority of co-workers make me feel valued, however there are a couple of people at work that feel that LPNs do not have a place in the O.R., and take any and every oppportunity to express this.

Ironically those are also the ones that whine about the lack of teamwork they're involved in. Oh, i'm sure that has nothing to do with the bitter attitudes they have towards some of their co-workers. Who wants to work with that kind of negativity?

It's things like that, that can bring people down, possibly make them feel as though they're not valuable. IF you let them.

I feel valued about 99% of the time.

Patients, management, and the majority of co-workers make me feel valued, however there are a couple of people at work that feel that LPNs do not have a place in the O.R., and take any and every oppportunity to express this.

Ironically those are also the ones that whine about the lack of teamwork they're involved in. Oh, i'm sure that has nothing to do with the bitter attitudes they have towards some of their co-workers. Who wants to work with that kind of negativity?

It's things like that, that can bring people down, possibly make them feel as though they're not valuable. IF you let them.

Wow, there is always an exception....right. You seem to brush things off your shoulder and keep moving. Awsome attitude Marie

Hey Y'all

The bad news: It might be nice that you're appreciated by your peers but in the big picture, it doesn't amount to a pitcher of spit. The place that appreciation COUNTS is in administration and their agenda and values are NOT the same as mine.

I want my Pts to have extradinary levels of care--skin flawless, drsgs and lines spotless and tight. I want to be in the room with my pts where all the monitors and pumps that are my tools are located.

The Admin wants the chart and paper to be flawless--plan of care updated qshift, nurse's notes in just a perfect format, useless forms that document nonsense filled in. The want me at the nurses station where I can answer the phone before the 4th ring.

Grumble Grumble Grumble

Papaw John

I feel very respected, appreciated, valued in my current position, and I never thought I'd be able to say that as a nurse. :)

No. Our director just mandated that we have to be 110% productive. Which is obsene when 95 to 100% is hard work. Which means my ratio is 8:1 on a lot of days just to balance some bean counters budget and make our director look good on paper.

I feel valued by MOST of my patients, SOME of my coworkers, and NONE of the administration.

The answer is NOOOOOOOOOO---that's why I'm looking for a new job after 13 years. I work in surgery now, but don't even care if I find another OR job. Sad day for me because I love surgery, but can't take the ABUSE anymore!

I want my Pts to have extradinary levels of care--skin flawless, drsgs and lines spotless and tight. I want to be in the room with my pts where all the monitors and pumps that are my tools are located.

The Admin wants the chart and paper to be flawless--plan of care updated qshift, nurse's notes in just a perfect format, useless forms that document nonsense filled in. The want me at the nurses station where I can answer the phone before the 4th ring.

In the military, we used to call this kind of management philosophy 'screw the mission, clean your position' management.

In nursing, I call it status quo.

~faith,

Timothy.