I've Had It! Nursing is NOT what it use to be!

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I am sooooooooo SICK AND TIRED of the CRAP being dealt with by us nurses! I am giving up nursing for good! Back to college for a new degree in a totally different career field where I can get the respect and appreciation for what I invest most of my time in these days. :(

I am TOTALLY disgusted with family members accusing me of doing wrong when I did NOT do anything wrong! I'm sick and tired of NOT getting any recognition for the GOOD things I do as a nurse! :o

I work three twelve hour shifts a week. In the process of working those 36 hours plus, I care for at least five to seven patients a shift (counting discharges and new admits before the shift is over). Mulitply those five (let's do the minimum here) times three days worked, and that's 15 patients a week...60 patients a month. Out of 60 patients, dealing with their family members complaints, the patients issues and sometimes complaints, the doctors and the other hospital staff involved with those 60 patients, a few strangers come along and make out like I'm the worse nurse they've ever laid eyes on. :rolleyes: Do I get credit for the 57 plus patients who happened to like the care received by them from me? Oh noooooooo....just let ONE irate family member complain about something I did NOT do, or let a doctor complain they didn't get what they wanted when they wanted it, let me come into work and be the nurse blasted by unhappy family or patients for the care they've received all week (not from me by the way cause I've not been at work all week), and I'm NOT a nice nurse. Whatever! :rolleyes:

I QUIT!!! Those people have walked on me for the last time! I am NOT their handmaiden. Heck, I'm not even respected as "the nurse", so why stay in nursing. Someone PLEEEEEEZZZZZ tell me WHY should I stay in this crappy disrespectful put the nurses down for everything that goes wrong field?

Specializes in Oncology/Haemetology/HIV.
Originally posted by SmilingBluEyes

No one said it's just nursing who feels the pain...

it IS universal, you are so right. The most- abused profession in my opinion is NOT the computer, telemarketing, fast-food service industries or even NURSING......IMO, It's the military.

Anyone vote for the police department in this category??

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Originally posted by caroladybelle

Anyone vote for the police department in this category??

You guys are really on to something. You are totally right.

Healthcare is a business and they are trying to milk everything out of their resources(that they have the most control over) ie. nursing staff.

On a side note, I was thinking Cheerfuldoer is going to have to change her custom now ;)

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Specializes in Oncology, Cardiology, ER, L/D.

I can totally relate to what you guys are talking about re: "customer service" in healthcare today. Although, I am still a nursing student, I have worked in healthcare for 12 years and I have definitely noticed a change! Even in nursing school, our freaking textbooks refer to "clients" NOT patients! This personally just frustrates the hell out of me, they are not our clients, they are our patients! We are not performing client care, we are performing PATIENT care! Obviously, the powers that be are trying to get us at the beginning to revamp our thinking not to care for PEOPLE but for customers and that justs burns me up!:( Renee, hang in there hon, you are a wonderful nurse and always will be no matter what career change you make!

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They want to take the human qualities out of human interaction and care and just make patients into customers and dealings with them will each be a transaction..

i can seeing the money flowing in with each transaction :chuckle

big business are bastards aren't they?

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Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.
Originally posted by cheerfuldoer

I am sooooooooo SICK AND TIRED of the CRAP being dealt with by us nurses! I am giving up nursing for good

Me, too, darlin'. I just finshed talking to my sister a few minutes ago. She is getting ready to open up a crafts store, and as soon as I am fiscally able, I am going to quit this business, start crocheting blankets and go into business with her. There's no sense in beating our brains out and being miserable and depressed, now, is there?

33 Years is long enough....too long.....:stone

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Awe, Renee. Hang in there sister. I feel you on the whole nursing bubble being busted and all. It's all about the bottom line. You do and do and all that is remembered, by yourself and others is what you could have done. You are a wonderful, compassionate human. You have so much to contribute to the proffession. ((HUGS))

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Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.
Originally posted by imenid37

Ya know, I think HIPPA does for us about what diarrhea does for Mexico!

Good One! :roll :roll :roll

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

Navynurse29,

You're right on gal. I am currently considered to be a client, and my caregiver is my employee. DUH! She's a CNA, with a Bachelor's degree in speech therapy.

I consider her to be my friend, and I've told her I have adopted her as my youngest daughter. I just love her, and I let her know it.

In fact, I filled out a survey sent to me today by the parent agency, asking me, and not my caregiver.

So they got my written response. On one question about satisfaction, I put, "I'm so satisfied, I couldn't get a better caregiver. I did however respond with a big NO to the question about when calling the agency, did I get a satisfactory answer. THEY DIDN'T EVEN CALL BACK!

So, I hope they open their eyebally very wide when they read my answers, because I meant every word I wrote, and I have absolutely NO REGRETS.;)

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Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.
Originally posted by eldernurse

Speaking of hotel, last night someone came to our ER via ambulance for (get this) DRY MOUTH!

Let's see...let me look in my ICD-9 bookand find out which category that comes under.....how about crockofcrapitis?

:(

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Specializes in Community Health Nurse.

I just signed on a little while ago, came straight to my thread to catch up on all the comments posted, and am sooooooo BLOWN AWAY WITH GRATITUDE for all the wonderful responses! I thought I'd NEVER catch up! :)

I had to work the past two days, then it took me most of today to clear my mind enough with rest and relaxation (watching soaps, listening to Handel's 'Messiah', etc.) before I could sign on and read emails from the past couple of days, then come "home to allnurses" where I truly feel embraced. Here's a big :kiss for all of you! :)

I'm writing Dr. Phil to ask him to have a series of shows with a nursing audience on one side, and non-healthcare workers on the other so we can discuss "today's nursing issues and how they affect EVERYone involved in the healthcare realm.

I intend to become politically active with making changes for nurses.........all the way to the White House.

I believe in being part of the solution and not part of the problem. If I can't be a part of the solution to change healthcare for the better, then I do not belong in this field. I feel the same about life in general. If all I do is take up space and don't make effective change during my life, then why bother to be alive. I...like all of you...am on this earth for a reason, and I do believe that I can make a difference by becoming a voice for nurses and patients alike in the political realm.

It just so happened that another nurse got the patient and her miserable family yesterday when the nurse mgr. was there. Nothing anyone did or said kept that family at bay. They complained about EVERYTHING. It isn't the patient who is the problem, but the patient's family (grown kids with issues no doubt). :rolleyes: I'm glad it wasn't just me they let loose on, but so many others from what I learned yesterday. It IS the family and not the staff. Thank God for that.

As for referring to "patients" as "clients", I say PHOOEY on that terminology. In my dictionary, CLIENTS pay for their services. So, if they are going to be referred to as "clients", then we are owed boo-koo back-pay for all the "clients" we have cared for, and I don't mean out of the hospital's pocketbook. Doctors collect money for taking on "clients", so nurses are due the same respect. I expect every "client" I care for to be billed with my name as the receiving agent on that bill.......so, where the heck is my backpay? :rolleyes:

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Cheerfuldoer-

I empathize with you totally. I've been there. I keep trying to leave nursing, but I just can't seem to break away.

Smilingblueyes-

That is outrageous that mgmt wanted the nurses to clean flies out of the light fixtures. They are out of their freaking minds. Good for all of you for saying NO to that one.

When I worked inpt hospice, pts were allowed to have their animals with them. Sounds great, but guess who got stuck with pooper-scooping duties? The Nurses, of course.

At the time, I was an LPN. I was at the bottom of the food-chain at that facility and did not have the guts to say no. I did the pooper scooping.

Now, I know better, and I say NO all the time.

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That's unbelieveable, (I do believe you), that nurses have to clean up after animals. I think that would have been the last straw for me.

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