Unit staff meetings...

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We have monthly unit staff meetings...a friend e-mailed me from work this morning and said the one today is an hour and a half long....:eek: We usually have 2 meetings, one in the AM and one in afternoon. I'm sorry, but after being at work full-time the last thing I want to do is go in on my day off, and sit there for an hour and a half and be told of all the things we do wrong and how much more paperwork we are going to be assigned....guess it just goes along with my negative attitude....:o

Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

most the meetings I have attended cease to be useful after about 30 minutes......too bad, most last over an hour to 90 minutes. It's crazy and a total waste of time, precious time. If you want to make ME happy( someone here asked) then make the meetings at MORE THAN ONE TIME and MAKE THEM SHORT AND USEFUL. Not on and on droning and complaining.......THAT would MAKE ME happy....

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These things are agonizingly painful to all involved. Make a news letter and sent it e-mail. All finished

Been there, done that, received the e-mails and it didn't work so well. While we were free to e-mail our comments or concerns, most of us felt like our concerns weren't being addressed as well. Now, we are back to the monthly "live" meetings.

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Specializes in Critical Care,Recovery, ED.

Staff meetings are part of your job, but they should be held during your regular working hours. If the hospital wants you to attend then it should add necessary staff to allow everyone to attend.

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Took the words.........;O)

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Specializes in peds, office nurse and long term care fa.

Where I work we have monthly staff meetings too, that we are expected to attend. With us working 10:45 p.m. to 7:15 a.m., I am in no mood to show up at 2:00 p.m. for a meeting. Why can't they understand that is like the middle of the night to us. We do the e-mails too but still have the meetings. That is my biggest gripe about working nights!

:o

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Originally posted by ratchit

I've never seen a meeting for day shifters held at 8pm after a 12 hour shift. An 8am meeting is just as rude to night shifters as that would be.

This is when the third shifters decided on for themselves....

Well spoke to some of my co-workers today and I didn't miss much. Same crap, different day. :rolleyes: Restraints (we are suppose to let the person fall and break a hip), documentation (the same stuff in 5 different places), chasing doctors for orders...(yeah, right. These people went to school for at LEAST 12 years, they should know what orders to write..)..glad I didn't waste my time. I will just read the minutes.....

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