What I Hate About Nursing In 2021

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Specializes in ER.

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  1. Masks
  2. Hyper regulatory nonsense 
  3. Useless, blanket, time consuming screenings. The list grows longer every year 
  4. Mind numbing charting 
  5. Increasingly entitled public 
  6. Disjointed healthcare system 
  7. Moral distress to me, caused by things such as Covid limitations of visitors policies, ridiculous extension of natural life, pouring precious common resources towards people who make zero effort to take care of themselves. 
  8. Disregard of safety and sanity of frontline healthcare workers 
  9. Billions diverted to corporate salaries
  10. Masks
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Specializes in Oncology (Prior: Ortho-Neuro, Metabolic Surgery).

Unsafe staffing levels

Lack of experienced nurses

Exhausted PAs/NPs/Physicians that don't hear what we are telling them

No/minimal vacation due to lack of staff

Most CNAs pulled from floor to sit

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Agree 110%.   Sadly however, in the absence of Universal Healthcare, the commoditization and profiteering by corporate interests will continue unabated and likely result in more of the same.  There's little question that the US healthcare system is desperately broken and it pains me to say that I'm that I'm not hopeful that it will change for the better anytime soon!

 

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Specializes in CMSRN, hospice.

Lack of provision for real meal and hydration breaks, normalization of being so busy there's no time to use the bathroom

Calls at least once a week asking you to come in extra

Constantly running out of needed supplies

Getting assigned more and more online modules and extra training sessions that are mandatory and must be done in an unrealistically short timeframe

Tossing new grads off orientation and into charge too early

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Specializes in ER.
On 7/17/2021 at 9:20 PM, NightNerd said:

Getting assigned more and more online modules and extra training sessions that are mandatory and must be done in an unrealistically short timeframe

OMG, that extra, mostly meaningless online education is killing me.

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Specializes in Oncology (Prior: Ortho-Neuro, Metabolic Surgery).
25 minutes ago, NightNerd said:

Calls at least once a week asking you to come in extra

Only once a week? I get them every day, promptly at 430 AM.

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4 hours ago, Ioreth said:

I get them every day, promptly at 430 AM.

I hope these are not waking you. Do Not Disturb. Select the people you want to be able to ring through.

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Specializes in CMSRN, hospice.
6 hours ago, Ioreth said:

Only once a week? I get them every day, promptly at 430 AM.

Oh geez, that's ridiculous! It can definitely be more often for me, but I think after the first dozen, "No thanks!" from me, my manager decided to stop wasting her time. ? I'm definitely not an overtime junkie.

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Specializes in ED, med-surg, peri op.
7 hours ago, Ioreth said:

Only once a week? I get them every day, promptly at 430 AM.

Once a day? Try dozen of times every single day. And if your already on shift they are constantly in your face to stay late. 

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Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.

Nursing had been defunded for quite some time and admin is still challenging themselves to see how low they can go.

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Specializes in Emergency Department.
12 hours ago, Emergent said:

1) Masks

2) Hyper regulatory nonsense 

3) Useless, blanket, time consuming screenings. The list grows longer every year 

4) Mind numbing charting 

5) Increasingly entitled public 

6) Disjointed healthcare system 

7) Moral distress to me, caused by things such as Covid limitations of visitors policies, ridiculous extension of natural life, pouring precious common resources towards people who make zero effort to take care of themselves. 

8‐ Disregard of safety and sanity of frontline healthcare workers 

9- Billions diverted to corporate salaries

10- Masks

 

Agree with you 70%. 

Number 9 not a problem in the UK.

1 and 10, disagree with you completely on that, but we already know we are on opposite sides of the argument on this so not making a big thing of it here.

 

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Specializes in Public Health, TB.

I understand the effectiveness of masks, and do wear them, but I still hate them!

And I hate that they are still necessary. 

On a personal note, I hate that the first question when seeking health care is "what is your insurance?" I hate that the whole focus is reimbursement, to the point that I suspect tests are ordered just to boost revenue. 

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