kari k

I thought of some more, control freaks, people who can't go with the flow and nurses and techs who feel every minutia of detail is performed better by themselves or they always tell you how to do it better (even if your competent) instead of doing it themselves. Also busy bodies who get involved in everyones business and cause trouble simply for the joy of messing up your day, usually because their some old bitty nurse, never been married, no kids, no life, no personally fullfilling hobbies, certainly not a Christain, and think their finger point and whistleblowing is doing some justice.

what annoys me most is nurses who talk about what annoys them to everyone but to the person who is causing the grief. Also political correctness, people who don't say what needs to be said to manipulative and lazy people for fear of retrobution or courtesy and because they believe it will do no good. It may not but when our coworkers are causing trouble I've found calling them a spade at least lets them know, I know it and I will tell anyone I feel like about it and their crap won't fly by me. And staff who see unpleasant changes coming and preemptively complain their way into a meeting with management and find themselves solving the problem to managements benefit, still upsetting themselves and simply didn't sit back and let management figure it out. For example with their schedule, when an established worker is forced or coerced into working someone elses hours because management can't keep help, we should stand firm that our personal time is just as important as this job.

I have been a nurse in Northern Indiana for 9 years. I went into nursing to do something more worthwhile than factory work. I also new my sister-in-law (a nurse) made over $20.00/hour. When I graduated in '94 I got a job starting at $12.25/hr. Not too bad I thought until I found out it took 25 years at least to get to the top of the pay scale that was about $25.00/hour then. The hospitals say nursing is their biggest expenditure, well we should be were the reason the patients are in the hospital to begin with. Starting wages are now about $16.50 with a top of about $27.25, so if you don't mind stress and you do get to use your brain and can live on this kind of money while the hospital continues to try to take money and benefits away then nursing might be for you. There is nothing else around here that pays this kind of money for me and I do love, love, love surgery