Hey VP of Nursing, here's an idea. Show Med Surg nurses the same consideration you give the ER, PACU and ICU instead of dumping on us without consideration that we're human beings, haven't had a break, stay late and are stressed to the max.. ER gets "well there's a trauma coming in and they are busy and they don't get to tell ambulances not to come:". PACU gets "but the OR is getting backed up", "ICU gets, there's a a critical patient".
We get: you're HCAPS scores are bad, your white board isn't done, here's a train wreck that's full of poop, that can't breathe, and needs pain medication, consults to be called, and whose daughter is a doctor and isn't happy....and another one and another one and another one.
It's just a vent. Don't tell me: why don't you quit, why do you put up with it, where's your union?
Depends on why you are leaving. I put up with it because I knew I was protecting my retirement and I didn't know how do do anything else that would bring enough salary to do that. AND, I made the best I could of it. I was a teacher previously. Some people just don't pick easy jobs:(
Sounds pretty adult to me:)
Yes. Sounds pretty adult to me. There can be more than one adult in the room.
Tweety, BSN, RN
36,330 Posts
Yes. Sounds pretty adult to me. There can be more than one adult in the room.