To all the nurse lovelies and studlies who shared your thoughts about what you hate most about your job -- thank you!!!
After reading everyone's responses, I would have guessed Inadequate Staffing†to have been in first place. However, after tallying?
Issues related to Management†easily took the gold.
As of 6/16/16, 93 people responded to the question.
(Drumroll….)
Here are the results regarding what you hate most about your job:
First place: Management (28) (inaccessible, poor communication, out of touch, lack of support, don't care, lack of planning, unrealistic expectations, trying to catch you doing something wrong, lying, not following through with what s/he says)
Second place: Scheduling expectations (23) (mandatory overtime, pressure to pick up extra shifts, meetings at inconvenient times, taking vacation time, being told what one can and can't take vacation time for, no break, shift duration, not being able to pick up an extra shift)
Third place: People stuff (20) (bad attitudes, lazy, negative attitudes, gossip, punitive environ, lack of communication, expecting nurses to know everything about patient, co-workers threatening to tell on you, low morale, CNAs that mouth off, favoritism)
Fourth: Inadequate staffing (16) (unsafe nurse to patient ratios)
(short staffed)
Fifth: (Computer) charting / documentation (13) (redundant charting, electronic medical records)
Sixth: Customer service attitude (10) (customer is always right, patients seen as customers)
Seventh: Unrealistic productivity expectations (7) (having to rush b/c of too much to do, risk of errors)
Eighth: Personal impact (7) (sleep during daytime, not being able to sit down to eat, PTSD, burned out, stress, emotional toll, feeling powerless, overwhelmed, no autonomy)
Ninth: Inadequate equipment/facility (6)
Tenth: Patients and families (6) (think they're special, rules don't apply to them, ordering nurses around)
Eleventh: Inadequate training (5)
Twelfth: Being undervalued (4)
Thirteenth: Inadequate compensation (4)
Fourteenth: Lack of safety (3)
Fifteenth: Poop and LICE! (3)
I'll be posting another question in the next couple of days. Keep your eyes open if you're interested in sharing your opinion for that one.
