1) Do you under staff?2) Do you have a one-month Preceptor program?3) Do you list the pay scale up front?4) Are the doctors respectful to the nurses?5). No one is interested in your hospital unless you rate A+ in these items. Skill giving interviews does not equate top rate skilled RN's.
Idle speech is a genuine ethical concern, as well as locations where it proliferates. It is true that if each person overheard their own suffering, they would wish they had never entrusted. It's genuinely heart-wrenching to witness the "unknowing" that causes suffering. One's intentions are important. To prevent more suffering? To ridicule? It comes around.