This is more of a vent post and I know some don't like to hear nurses "whining" but for those people...don't read this then. I need to vent and no one but nurses will understand me as others just don't understand the full scope of the sh*t we deal with.
At this moment, I have HAD it with nursing. Maybe that is too harsh and broad. I have HAD it with the politics of hospitals trying to be a customer service driven business. I have HAD it with arrogant doctors who think they can speak to nurses how they do and their huge EGOS. I have HAD it with the endless paper work that is meant to make our reality APPEAR better than it is.
I am a damn good nurse and I work VERY hard for each and every one of my patients, even the ones who verbally abuse me and in some cases physically hurt me. BUT this doesn't seem to be enough in todays hospital environments, especially MAGNET hospitals where paperwork and APPEARANCES are more important than REALITY.
Maybe I should say THANK YOU. Thank you for the compliment of thinking I am a super woman who can accomplish more in a 12 hour shift than most people could accomplish in a 40 hour work week. Thank you for thinking I can make every patient 100% happy and satisfied every hour of every shift. However, here is a newsflash for ya...I AM ALSO HUMAN.
I have HAD it being everyone's scapegoat and the go between for all doctors, case managers, dietary, respiratory therapists, and everyone else that unnecessarily puts the RN in the middle of crap then blames me the RN when ANYTHING doesn't go perfectly.
I have HAD it with finding mistakes made before I arrived and when trying to correct them, getting lectured for the mistake. HELLO, I did not make it, I am trying to make it better. And BTW, the nurse that did make the mistake, she is also HUMAN.
The faster I can get out of bedside nursing the better.
Oh and for anyone who is going to respond with a "Florence Nightingale" like comment, save it. I've HAD it.
