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Hospitals are laying off nurses and merging job duties/responsibilities to improve their bottom line. What do you think about these moves? Is this happening in your area? Do you think it will improve "customer" satisfaction?

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The concept "the customer is always right" has not worked well in any area. One of the greatest business concept mistakes ever crafted.

Amen to that! It lets greedy and mean people walk all over employees in lots of sectors, and it's the very reason why retail is the worst. And instead of teaching people that if they can't be decent human beings they won't be tolerated in a social setting, they teach them that if they've got the money, they can walk all over whomever they want for whatever reason or even none at all. You can't fix people being people, but you shouldn't have to tolerate it, either. It'd be great to see corporations who back their employees instead of backing rude people with money.

Oh, and as long as I'm on a corporate rant, I obviously don't mean all employees -- we all know how incompetent many retail managers seem to be. As long as I worked in retail and fast food (from 16 up til 20 continually, then off and on from then up until just a month or so ago), I never once had a manager whom I could say, "Oh, I know why they put her in charge! She's very competent and good with customers!" The closest I got was a couple of head cashiers at the retail chain I worked at, and only about 2 out of the 10 of them were any good with people or fair at all.

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Specializes in ED, ICU, PSYCH, PP, CEN.

You forgot to add "Is there anything else I can do for you. I have the time". Robots gotta be able to say that

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Specializes in neuro/ortho med surge 4.

It is all about greed. That is the bottom line. All the hospitals say they care about the patients but we all know they care about the penny more.

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Specializes in PICU, NICU, L&D, Public Health, Hospice.

The robots should replace the administrators...that would be easy...cheaper too.

No big bonuses, long vacations, big salaries...the robot can do the figurin at low cost, works 24/7, doesn't need a bonus, and the $$ can be used for bedside care.

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no you should be saying: 01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01101110 01110101 01110010 01110011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 01100100 01100001 01111001

(Use a binary translator to read)

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I just want to get my RN degree!

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The robots should replace the administrators...that would be easy...cheaper too.

No big bonuses, long vacations, big salaries...the robot can do the figurin at low cost, works 24/7, doesn't need a bonus, and the $$ can be used for bedside care.

This this THIS!

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Tele, PCU.

I completely agree with your post. But isn't that why the Affordable Care Act of 2010 passed? To reform the health care system by reconceptualizing the role of nurses? Some facilities have started to do that with successful patient outcomes while reducing cost - by giving more authority to RN's & APRN's. The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report by the IOM is an excellent read of what the nursing profession has to do to participate in reforming health care instead of leaving it up to physicians & other non-nursing staff ;).

[h=1]The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health - Institute of Medicine[/h]

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Didn't you see the movie 'Short Circuit'?

"Johnny 5 is alive!"

haha yieh yieh early 90s i think

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