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Dream time!

I read a great deal about dissatifaction in the healthcare field, i see it all levels where i work...pretty much at all levels.

Almost universally it seems to be that one enters this profession usually for good reasons and in good faith ie:

1. Be of use helping others

2. Being of service while making a living

3. A secure job

what seems to often end up happening is:

1. Assembly line healthcare

2.Not enough time to enjoy being a caring worker/care giver

3.defensive healthcare practices( aka "cover yr butt", and / or "its not in my backyard")

4.Money is the ultimate bottom line

5.long hours/stressful work/sleep deprivation

6.Too much paperwork, too little care

7.family life negatively impacted

8.sometimes shady ethics

prob many more

What I am building upto here is trying to get a sense of what in an ideal world would be an ideal RN (or LPN/NA etc) 's job be like

1.Ideal patient/caregiver ratio

2.Ideal work hours (tradeoff between work and pay is a given)

3.Ideal work setting..ie home health, NH,hosp etc etc

Would love to hear from all old and new nurses,LPNs, CNA and everyone reading this..

Why?

I want us to dream up a perfect job, then go out there to demand it/fight for it, and if necessary create it for ourselves..

If we dont imagine it first how will we ever know what a perfect job looks like?

hope to hear from some of you!

Dolly

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I see there were no replies to this topic, I wondered why nurses don't fight for more things like ideal work situations. I am a new grad lpn and I am kind of scared to start working because of the horror stories. More than likely I will be in ltc with like 40 to 60 patients. I thought was crazy, but the more I read from this site the more it seems like it is the norm for nurses to be over worked!!

A lot of nurses do not fight to better things for nurses because they end up fighting alone, then are labled a "troublemaker." A lot of nurses complain about how they are treated, but when push comes to shove, they back down.

Much to our detriment, nursing is just not a cohesive profession.

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