How to make management happy!!!!!!!

[mina123]

Since last week nurses on my floor, me and other nurses work surgical floor are so unhappy with our management. We have wonderful group of nurses and aids on our floors. All of them very compassionate to our pt's and families. Great care from everyone day and night. Inspite of all this our manager who micromanages the unit is very unhappy with our jobs. We all feel like such failures and its not just me this is throughout the floor. We have got together and have talked to our director and unit manager we all are trying our best but the management still wants more and more. We work on a very busy hospital surgical unit. NO positive reinforcement, no apprecation for hard work done not that most nurses wants been appreciated everyday but by end of the day a simple thank you is all we need. We are out of our wits at this point any advice from anyone would be helpful!

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Sometimes we have to adjust oursevlves to our management's style whether we like it or not. Since you've gone to them with your concerns, perhaps it's time to just go home knowing you've given 110% and find satisfaction elsewhere away from management.

However, I would continue to let the manager know that it's demoralizing to work in a thankless job.

[psalm, RN]

As long as YOU know you gave your best to your patients and your co-workers, that can help you thru the times that management and/or supervisers don't seem to care. I feel sometimes that our excellent skills and care are never enuff for some management, patients and/or their families...but *I* know I did my best.

Eventually you will have recognition from someone...when you least expect it.

[mina123]

Thank you both very much. I am also a pediatric critcal care nurse. Just yesterday i got recognized in front of 300 people in a great ceremony for being one of the best pediatric nurse and being thanked by numerous families for taking care of there sick child as one of mine. I was in tears; only wished this other hospital can see our hard work and dedication but as you say good deeds always comes back in some way or another. Thank you !

[Freedom42]

If my manager asked me to do more than was possible, I would put the burden back on the manager: Ask him or her to prioritize. That way, when you're asked about why something isn't done, you can list the manager's priorities.

I would also include complaints about poor service -- e.g., "I had to wait for 45 minutes for someone to help me" -- on the supervisor's report. That reminds the manager that patients are complaining because you have too much to do and not enough people to do it. Over time, the manager will be forced to recognize the trend.

[madwife2002, BSN, RN]

I shall make management very happy soon because I show my unhappiness with them by using my feet and walk away

[*ac*]

I honestly don't give a rat's you-know-what about management. I do my best, my very best, and I have cards and letters and positive surveys from patients that prove it. I try to do what they ask and that has to be enough.