The CEO said WHAT!!!!

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I was in a public meeting the other day where the CEO of my 860 bed hospital said, "My hospital would be better off without nurses."

I threw up in my mouth.

Now why would he say such a thing?

Since then, every single Nurse Manager has resigned.

Should I start looking for another job? What is the health care world coming to?:mad:

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
i can not help but wonder why oh why no one seems to respect the job that we do now men do not get upset but i am wondering is it because nursing is pretty much female dominated field and since women were treated as second class citizens for so long is this mentality accepted be seen and not heard and remember in fn day nursing was a dirty word and their was much disdain for nursing. consider this if this was a predominately male field as doctors. has been look at the prestige they have had in the community for forever would our profession be well respected as well does make you think or is that just me

huh?????

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A doctor once told me that I was his eyes and ears when he couldn't be directly at the bedside. I passed that comment onto many people, CNA's, LPN's. We are needed. Often someone goes sour gradually, it's the little things that add up to the whole. No algorhythm can replace clinical judgement, intuition and knowing what to do when.

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I was in a public meeting the other day where the CEO of my 860 bed hospital said, "My hospital would be better off without nurses."

I threw up in my mouth.

Now why would he say such a thing?

Since then, every single Nurse Manager has resigned.

Should I start looking for another job? What is the health care world coming to?:mad:

Been there heard that. My situation was a small family owned rehabilitation and nsg home. He said "nurses are a dime a dozen, if you don't like it here we can replace you just like that. Just like that several nurses resigned and it took a long time to replace them. Meanwhile guess who suffered while trying to care for the patients we cared about? I left as soon as I could find a better job, glad to have my Nsg lsc. intact. The place closed down about 5 years later.

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Been there heard that. My situation was a small family owned rehabilitation and nsg home. He said "nurses are a dime a dozen, if you don't like it here we can replace you just like that. Just like that several nurses resigned and it took a long time to replace them. Meanwhile guess who suffered while trying to care for the patients we cared about? I left as soon as I could find a better job, glad to have my Nsg lsc. intact. The place closed down about 5 years later.

Now that's what I call solidarity! Good for you and your former co-workers! :up:

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Surely there was more to the statement than just that. I cannot imagine a ceo saying this in a place where the largest service is nursing. I think the poster is from Canada though so I am not sure how it works up there.

No, there was NOT any more to the statement than that. Wake UP, people, this is EXACTLY what your management thinks of you!

You are nothing more than an expensive pain in the butt to people in power who would LOVE to see you replaced by droids who would do tasks under absurd conditions and take the blame when those conditions led to harm.

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OP, tell us the details so we can intelligently discuss this. You are teasing us, so far. Not saying you mean to, just how can we say anything without the background, updates, etc. C'mon, play fair.

Also, who is running the show without any managers? Who's making the schedules, assignments, etc. Believe it or not, we do need some managers.

Actually, with a good core team, you don't.

I worked in an ICU which had 3 interim managers in 1 year, all of whom came in with big ideas as to how they would "transform" our ICU. They soon learned that this group of highly skilled professionals neither wanted or needed thier help to develop and update policies to accord to JCHAO and AACN standards. We did it ourselves as professionals who WANTED to be exemplary.

We were lauded by JCHAO; and told the newbie manager to go find a problem.

And BTW, we do our own schedules and assignments.

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Specializes in M/S, Travel Nursing, Pulmonary.

You know, if you were really upset about this:

Call a local news show or the local newspaper and tell them about the comment. They'll let you do it anonymously. Imagine his face when he gets the call from the news channel asking "Sir, you've been quoted by one of our sources as saying [this]. Can you elaborate?".

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Specializes in M/S, Travel Nursing, Pulmonary.
No, there was NOT any more to the statement than that. Wake UP, people, this is EXACTLY what your management thinks of you!

You are nothing more than an expensive pain in the butt to people in power who would LOVE to see you replaced by droids who would do tasks under absurd conditions and take the blame when those conditions led to harm.

You can blame Star Trek for this.

Which one was it? I forget, I'm not a Treky. I do know one had, as its primary medical officer, an android that required no sleep, had prepared statements for every complaint, could multi-task duties by the thousands and.................when not in use went to a broom closet and shut down.

Yep, thats what they want. Wonder how many millions of hospital/medical dollars have gone to robotics engineering studies? Hmmmmm........................

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Specializes in M/S, Travel Nursing, Pulmonary.
huh?????

lmao.............omg funny.

you see:

what they were sayingwas ifthere were moremen in nursing, nursingwould by default bemorerespected because you havetoconsider thatdoctors don't gettreatedthisway and one must certainlyunderstand being as thatwhich the situation is may apply to but sometimes not always discrimination.

get it now?

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Specializes in cardiology/oncology/MICU.
No, there was NOT any more to the statement than that. Wake UP, people, this is EXACTLY what your management thinks of you!

You are nothing more than an expensive pain in the butt to people in power who would LOVE to see you replaced by droids who would do tasks under absurd conditions and take the blame when those conditions led to harm.

Well I will agree with the pain in the butt part anyway, lol.

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Specializes in cardiology/oncology/MICU.
No, there was NOT any more to the statement than that. Wake UP, people, this is EXACTLY what your management thinks of you!

You are nothing more than an expensive pain in the butt to people in power who would LOVE to see you replaced by droids who would do tasks under absurd conditions and take the blame when those conditions led to harm.

Well there is one good thing about working nightshift, it turns my relationship with management into something that resembles a poor choice for a one night stand-I only have to see them for a minute in the morning!:lol2:

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Well there is one good thing about working nightshift, it turns my relationship with management into something that resembles a poor choice for a one night stand-I only have to see them for a minute in the morning!:lol2:

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! too true!!!

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