Umbrellacorpnurse

This only works with the not needy or entitled patients. With that crowd it just encourages them to act like they're at the Ritz. This is a hospital not a 5 star resort. I'm here to save your ass not kiss it. Here are your meds and fresh ice water and a fresh blanket. No I'm not doing foot rubs, back rubs or ick...happy endings so don't ask. No I will not give your walkie walkie behind a sponge bath. No...there is not going to be a mint or you pillow but if you behave there might be a mint mouthwash with your 9am meds. Too much pampering is what turned our current generation into whiny little kittens who can't function without constant stimulation (and before you flame me I am in that generation so I see the idiocy first hand)

Nursing now is turning into how factory jobs were in the 1900s. Unsafe conditions, long hours without breaks, and NO RESPECT! We are treated like worse than slaves. Even as a cashier in RETAIL I got more respect! Now instead of being a medical professional I am no more than a **** wiping watress in my blue slave uniform. I'm not a person, I'm just a tool. I'm not an intelegent prefessional with advanced learning and years of experience, I'm just another faceless drone to answer yet another inane call light to fluff a pillow or shove a "failure to thrive" who shouldn't have been admited anyway, back into bed for the 100th time in a night while trying to take care of 7 acute patients in a 12 hour shift with no breaks. We're yelled at for taking breaks but written up if we don't. We get in trouble for coming into work sick but are punished if we call off. Heaven forbid we ACTUALLY take that legal 20 minute break because if we're off the floor for more than 5 minutes all hell breaks loose. If I wanted to be treated this badly I'm sure I could have gotten a job at Foxcon. At least then it would be clean...