If you speak your mind will you get a bad assignment? Come on..come clean!

[Airbrushguy]

My girlfriend seems to be afraid to speak her mind because of the fact that the management system can always send her to the lesser or busier hospitals as a float pool thing shes in.

[Jules A, MSN]

I don't complain because I figure it evens out over time and sometimes what I think is going to be a rough assignment isn't. Why don't you let her handle it the way she feels is best? :)

[classicdame, MSN, EdD]

there is a difference between speaking your mind and being a complainer. Maybe the difference is in the perceptions of the speaker/hearer.

[loriangel14, RN]

Everyone gets a tough assignment on occassion. I never complain because I know it comes around to everyone. The floor I work on is all about team work so if you are swamped you get help anyways.

[Airbrushguy]

Very interesting how you guys call it "Complaining". Wow

Indeed some of us do not even CONSIDER that we have been conditioned to blind adherence to many systems of indoctrination.. thus LIMITING our own reservations to a CONTROLLED system. EH?

[roser13, ASN, RN]

Eh? Airbrushguy, your posts usually strike me as coming from someone who likes to stir the pot, so to speak. Nothing wrong with that I guess, if you like controversy.

[loriangel14, RN]

It's not blind adherence,it's called doing your job. There will always be hard work involved with being a nurse and whining about being expected to do some of that work will get you no sympathy.

[mustlovepoodles, RN]

My answer is yes, it is possible that if your girlfriend decides to speak up for herself she may experience some retaliation. That is the way of the world, unfortunately. I depends highly on what SHE means by speaking her mind. Is she whining or does she have a solution for her complaint? Management hates it when people just start venting with no thought toward possible resolutions. It's very easy to just move a complainer to another location or another shift, just to get them out of the way. When you're a mature adult you learn how to speak up appropriately. Perhaps she needs to study on that before she lets fly.

[Blue Crab Lover]

I don't complain because I figure it evens out over time and sometimes what I think is going to be a rough assignment isn't. Why don't you let her handle it the way she feels is best? :)

I agree with the above statement totally. No one is that special they will not get a bad assignment. We all must share the bad assignments. I am frequently charge nurse on my unit and there is this one nurse who always comes in early to look at the assignment. She often asks to change because "this is too hard " or she will put in request for this and that patient. She has lost her mind if she thinks I am going to change everyone's assignment the previous day to accomodate her the next day because she thinks it is too hard. Yes, some patients we can only tolerate for 1 day and rotate them. And the whole unit knows who they are. However, request just because you don't want to do the work will be ignored. Also, I've learned to go with the flow. Like the other poster said, sometimes you think it will be bad and it turns out better than you even thought.

[kristiel6]

I agree with all the replies, I have been an Lpn for 18 years, I have never complained because I want the experience...if I don't know how to do something, or am afraid of something I have not done, I eat the fear and do it anyway and ALWAYS ask QueStIonS if I don't know...just sayin' just accepted into an LPN-RN bridge program here in Tucson....

[Airbrushguy]

The codependent nature of the RN persona seems to lend itself to blind adherence, and a certain degree of submission and overt tolerance that is VERY evident in questioning authority or contrived labor systems that in my opinion are exceptionally ambiguous and primitive. Nurses ( In a SANE world ) would have 70% less patients which would enable them to retain their core purpose in the field which is to nurture and help. I am smelling lemmings left and right it seems?

[nursemike, ASN, RN]

The codependent nature of the RN persona seems to lend itself to blind adherence, and a certain degree of submission and overt tolerance that is VERY evident in questioning authority or contrived labor systems that in my opinion are exceptionally ambiguous and primitive. Nurses ( In a SANE world ) would have 70% less patients which would enable them to retain their core purpose in the field which is to nurture and help. I am smelling lemmings left and right it seems?

Arise! Ye prisoners of starvation...

I am not a lemming. I take my assignment and do my job.