Yeah lots of people are quitting but there is a nationwide recruitment freeze and no where for them to go and work as nurses. Management know this and want to see them go. Quitting doesn't stop the...
Just imagine that you could have a few minutes or hours or however long you need inside a room with hospital administrators/managers. Imagine that you could say anything you wanted to them and...
Our managers have refused to come to the ward and speak with us. We have been making frequent requests for months. The only message that has come down from them is this "tough" "deal with it" and...
I was supposed to be out of there months ago but our house buyers pulled out of the sale so I am stuck until we get another buyer. I have been looking at waitressing in the meantime but if it takes...
It's not a bad mistake at all considering some of the stuff that is happening on our ward. I'm not losing sleep over it really. I am just so sick of the doctors and their attitudes. It's like they...
I posted this in the UK forum because many of you know the situation with targets, short staffing, recruitment freezes etc. The Americans might not realise that medicine and surgery are so divided...
I totally agree. Nursing has more bad points than good IMHO. It's a shame too because it doesn't need to be that way. If nurses had decent management, support, a safe number of patients, authority...
Martinette replied to marie-francoise's topic in General Nursing
It is not LESS education. It is a different kind of education. My 3 year diploma program was a lot tougher than your average Bachelors degree in other fields. I was attending nursing school while...
I'll come in from a different angle here because I have a strong stomach. I cannot handle anything sad involving young mums and their babies /children. We have a very young single mother with young...
Martinette replied to marie-francoise's topic in General Nursing
It seems to be the same all over. Most of my friends colleagues are nurses from the Phillipines, India, and Singapore. In India it is 1 nurse to 60 patients yet their hospitals are really modern and...