Pathway to (UGH) Excellence?

[LeeniesMomRN]

Our hospital is promoting this Pathway to Excellence thing. Every week it's another long-winded spiel about leadership, nursing cohesion, great place to work, yada yada yada yada! I looked it up online and I see it's another credential the hospital is trying to add to show how wonderful we are, but I feel like this is just dreck being force fed to already overwhelmed and busy floor nurses. As a matter of fact, the only ones I see who are enthusiastic about this thing, are some of the managers and, those nurses in the Masters programs. To the rest of us it appears as nonsense that has little to do with doing our jobs.

Am I wrong? Is it me? Am I suffering burnout? Should I embrace this thing and happily share it with my coworkers?

[Chaya, ASN, RN]

I suspect that you come from a younger generation more suspicious of hype.

Anything that sounds like hype, BS or an insincere "taking one for the team" falls flat.

The teamwork talk would have worked with "company men" way back when, but anything that sounds like a reheorificed pep talk will not be regarded anymore.

Well I'm no sweet young thing and I feel like I've seen the same stale stuff trotted out every few years. Been there, done that. A lot. The hype/ insincere part is what makes it fall flat with me now and I felt the same when I was a SYT. If it looks, like poop and smells like poo-for cryin' out loud, why would you want to swallow it!