It seems like there are so many childish things around nursing and I just don't get it. The frumpy cartoonish uniform tops, the corny "angel" statues and dust catchers aimed at nurses. Our billboards at work speak of "Being on the Bus" and features a short yellow school bus and a "pledge" form that we are all supposed to sign that features lots of cartoon characters. The form is for us to say we agree with the hospital policies on working as a team, getting along with others etc. Seriously our bulletin board looks like something I would expect to see in a 4th or 5th grade classroom. Lots of big fat yellow smiley faces all over everything. IMHO it's demeaning, debasing and I hate having this nonsense aimed at me, a 58 yo nurse working since 1975!
There are rolls of bright cartoon stickers we are supposed to put on glasses of ice water to give to the patients with phrases like "I've been a good patient"!, "You are awesome"!, "You are someone special"!. You know, the sort of thing you would expect to see in pediatrics, NOT on a general med/surg floor. Needless to say I refuse to use them.
Our supervisor recently told us that if we hear someone say something "not nice" we are supposed to get one of those fat oily yellow face stickers and put it on the person upside down, so the smile will appear instead as a frown.
Does anyone else see this, I know the other nurses I work with also find it stupid and ridiculous.
i think i would handle this like the mature woman i am, and request a sit-down meeting with the ceo.
very discretely, i would place a whoopie cushion on my seat, and watch his/her face as a loud and long fart seeps out as i am sitting down.:rotfl::w00t::rotfl:
do you think they'd appreciate my 'youthful gesture' then?
Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.
i think i would handle this like the mature woman i am, and request a sit-down meeting with the ceo.
very discretely, i would place a whoopie cushion on my seat, and watch his/her face as a loud and long fart seeps out as i am sitting down.:rotfl::w00t::rotfl:
do you think they'd appreciate my 'youthful gesture' then?
leslie:saint:
Only if you break a vial of Keflex, pour it out on the floor while in stealth mode and then ask the CEO why his office smelled like cat urine. Then chuckle the whole way down the hall because you KNOW he will be sniffing around and wondering the same thing.
Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.
It sounds like your facility is infected with the cute disease a little more so than most, lol. The last thread I read here last night had me perusing a document that talked about how nurses in the 21st century need to increasingly move from task-based proficiencies to higher-level competencies and navigagte regulatory and access stipulations.
But I'm not allowed to figure out how to say hello to you or introduce your oncoming nurse and -- I got 7 happyface stickers this week!!
OH I know!!! Let's all come up with a disease-sounding name for cuteness infection. This should be good. Y'all are creative!
A FORMER manager I had offered us BUTTONS if she didn't like something we said. This behavior was encouraged, don't like what someone says? Give them a button and tell them to BUTTON THEIR LIPS!
Uh...that lasted a week, our director took the buttons after some brave soles went to HR about it all. The solution after that is now the Above the Line Below the line behavior board. The board is fixed up like a second grade class room board. When asked where the materials came from, the Associate Manager replied...OH! From this cute little school supply place! Yeah.....I totally get where you are coming from. I am sick of superstar gold stickers and candy bars for good behavior. We are adults for heaven's sake!
I am stunned .... that is so inappropriate DayOhioRn.
Here's hoping the recession clears soon and those of you who work in such ridiculous facilities can move to more professional environments. And the behaviour board and sticker facilities have to offer some humungous sign-on bonuses to get anyone to work there
Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
i think i would handle this like the mature woman i am, and request a sit-down meeting with the ceo.
very discretely, i would place a whoopie cushion on my seat, and watch his/her face as a loud and long fart seeps out as i am sitting down.:rotfl::w00t::rotfl:
do you think they'd appreciate my 'youthful gesture' then?
leslie:saint:
Those of us in the Baby Boomer Age group may recall the old "Trouble With Angels" movies with Hayley Mills . . . I can just imagine a multiplying effect if several of us got together -- and --- oops! I here Sister coming down the hall!!
We're subject to jargon overkill and juvenile edicts! Trying to reconcile them makes my head hurt.
Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself.
As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare.
It seems like there are so many childish things around nursing and I just don't get it. The frumpy cartoonish uniform tops, the corny "angel" statues and dust catchers aimed at nurses. Our billboards at work speak of "Being on the Bus" and features a short yellow school bus and a "pledge" form that we are all supposed to sign that features lots of cartoon characters. The form is for us to say we agree with the hospital policies on working as a team, getting along with others etc. Seriously our bulletin board looks like something I would expect to see in a 4th or 5th grade classroom. Lots of big fat yellow smiley faces all over everything. IMHO it's demeaning, debasing and I hate having this nonsense aimed at me, a 58 yo nurse working since 1975!
There are rolls of bright cartoon stickers we are supposed to put on glasses of ice water to give to the patients with phrases like "I've been a good patient"!, "You are awesome"!, "You are someone special"!. You know, the sort of thing you would expect to see in pediatrics, NOT on a general med/surg floor. Needless to say I refuse to use them.
Our supervisor recently told us that if we hear someone say something "not nice" we are supposed to get one of those fat oily yellow face stickers and put it on the person upside down, so the smile will appear instead as a frown.
Does anyone else see this, I know the other nurses I work with also find it stupid and ridiculous.
Wait until they start to count your frowning stickers vs. your smiling stickers and factor it into your yearly 10cent raise.
Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself.
As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare.
Also happens to describe pretty well a first date.
I know what you mean...I have also always wondered why we spell Kardex with a K instead of a C...for those still using this archaeic system. And if I am late, I am late...I was tardy in kindergarten and grade school!
I know what you mean...I have also always wondered why we spell Kardex with a K instead of a C...for those still using this archaeic system. And if I am late, I am late...I was tardy in kindergarten and grade school!
Probably a brand name, used as a generic, like we used to use "xerox" for "copy"
SharonH, RN
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OMG, this is specific to your workplace, it is a reflection of the "leadership" and it sounds like a nightmare.