WILTW 2/19: The Seven Stages of Grievance (Part II)

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

Hi everyone!

As the past week has taught me, being a Grievance is about soft skills and empowering people to focus of unification and how to relearn the aspects of advocacy while learning how to empower through working with management to improve working conditions.

The beginning of last week was a huge learning curve as I still learn how to manage my strong personality along with soft skills when it comes to management, especially when they feel cornered when questioned about their management techniques.

Management likes to state CBA agreement while ignoring just cause is a reason to discipline, not just what's in the agreement per labor board standards.

Sometimes executive members and bargaining members get in the way of personal feelings without looking at how meeting with management will give us a better advantage, especially when bargaining about safe staffing, and economics come next year, especially when we are still about 10-20 dollars less that what we really should be making, and how I must strive to help get that mindset changed, for the betterment to retaining and attracting the best nurses to give patient care.

More to come on my evolution next week!

What have you learned this week?

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

I have another OB appointment today. One more next week then the week after that my baby will be here, finally!

It's been a long & sickly 9 months. It's bittersweet that it's almost over. I'm so ready to be done being so sick & pregnant but at the same time this is my last pregnancy so it's sad knowing it's almost over.

On the rare days I feel good I don't want it to end or I want to be pregnant again. But for the majority of the time I am so ready to be done & never want to be pregnant again. Lol.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

So much has happened but I don't wanna post it twice.

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Hello again everyone. As I now seem to have an abundance of spare time I thought I'd pop in.

It's been nearly a month (29 days but who's counting?) since management made it clear that I was not going to be able to attain the goals they set out for me. Partly because those goals seemed to change from one day to the next.

I was told that they would support me as I interviewed for other units in the hope that I would be able to transfer internally. That did not happen.

I am now back to resumes and applications. And in the tricky spot of being a newer grad, with a few months of experience, that I don't think I should put on my resume.

I've learned that ulcers suck.

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I'm on track to graduate from my LPN-ASN program this May. I've already secured a job (yey!) in an area I never expected, but am terrified and thrilled at the same time.

I quit the job I was miserable with so I have a sense of calm right now. I'm co-hosting an event through my college. I've never done anything like this before and neither has my co-host. Our Dean decided to do this last minute so it's stressful, but yet fun.

My family is happy to finally see a few hours of me, but I of course am worried about not blowing through all of our savings.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

New post is up!

https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/wiltw-3-11-1094267.html

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