Job Story: Job Abuse - That's Nursing!....Nursing Residence

[jammer]

You have a really BAD attitude. Attitude is what it's all about in any job. I hope you're out of the profession, because I'd be concerned for patients being cared for by someone with your mindset.

[Unregistered]

I have read a few of the comments left and it is always the same thing - "Nusing is not for me," "Nursing sucks." I LOVE nursing, I love caring for my patients.

What I DO NOT love is the abuse we nurses are told we have to endure from these doctors. It is illegal to bring hostility to the working environment, although there are some doctors who are nothing but hostile. Nursing is a large profession. There are alot of nurses in every state in this country. Unless we stand up together and stand strong against this type of abuse in the workplace, these doctors will continue to believe it is their RIGHT to talk to us in abusive ways. Start documentation on your units today with regards to physicians and their unprofessional conduct. Pass it on and keep it going. When the time is right, submit it to your Board of Directors, CEOs, and Corporate Compliance. Let's start letting these doctors know who is really in control. We need to take back our profession and remold it to demand the respect and professionism we deserve.

Nursing in Florida

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Unregistered
I have read a few of the comments left and it is always the same thing - "Nusing is not for me," "Nursing sucks." I LOVE nursing, I love caring for my patients.

What I DO NOT love is the abuse we nurses are told we have to endure from these doctors. It is illegal to bring hostility to the working environment, although there are some doctors who are nothing but hostile. Nursing is a large profession. There are alot of nurses in every state in this country. Unless we stand up together and stand strong against this type of abuse in the workplace, these doctors will continue to believe it is their RIGHT to talk to us in abusive ways. Start documentation on your units today with regards to physicians and their unprofessional conduct. Pass it on and keep it going. When the time is right, submit it to your Board of Directors, CEOs, and Corporate Compliance. Let's start letting these doctors know who is really in control. We need to take back our profession and remold it to demand the respect and professionism we deserve.

Nursing in Florida

[Unregistered]

It's so easy to generalize and say the previous poster has a bad attitude, but remember how many years she has put up with abuse. She is absolutely correct in stating that nurses have been taught to accept abuse as a normal part of the job. Everyone in the profession that I have met will tell you it started in nursing school with instructors that were witches, or definitely worse than drill instructors. Anyone with common sense can tell you there is no need for all that crap that instructors give students. Yes, the weak and lazy need to be weeded out during school, but the nurses start eating their young in school and it gets worse after that. I'm sure this poster is a good nurse with 35 years of experience. She's frustrated like so many of us and is using this forum as a means to vent. Please allow her to do this without assuming she is a bad nurse.

[Unregistered]

Nursing is not what I thought it was. It's not really
as simple as hands on care anymore. One doesn't know what really goes on until you are actually on the job.

I understand now why the public have no respect for nurses. Because I have seen how nurses themselves do not give and show each other the respect that they deserve.

Instead of focusing on our patients and collaborating on their care, we tend to focus more on one-upping, upstaging, &
cutting each other down. From who is a better/real
nurse (LPN,ADN, BSN, MSN) to who doesn't know what they are doing. Nurses have so much to do as it is, why waste your energy on this? Why did we really go into nursing in the first place?

All the patient really care about is how attentive, considerate, respectful, and genuine your care and service is to them.

I have been both a patient and a nurse. I am dreading the day that someday my care will be under a nurse who only became a nurse because of the money.

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Nursing is not what I thought it was. It's not really
as simple as hands on care anymore. One doesn't know what really goes on until you are actually on the job.

I understand now why the public have no respect for nurses. Because I have seen how nurses themselves do not give and show each other the respect that they deserve.

Instead of focusing on our patients and collaborating on their care, we tend to focus more on one-upping, upstaging, &
cutting each other down. From who is a better/real
nurse (LPN,ADN, BSN, MSN) to who doesn't know what they are doing. Nurses have so much to do as it is, why waste your energy on this? Why did we really go into nursing in the first place?

All the patient really care about is how attentive, considerate, respectful, and genuine your care and service is to them.

I have been both a patient and a nurse. I am dreading the day that someday my care will be under a nurse who only became a nurse because of the money.

[Unregistered]

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[gojack10]

Thank you for wishing the rest of us luck. And I hope that all is not lost after so much time put in in the pits. It is clear that the hostility of 'jammer' is from ignorance of how nursing 35 years has hurt your health. I hope that you can salvage some happiness yet in your life. Best wishes,

The Drug Pusher
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<<My advice? If you're thinking of becoming a nurse - read these stories and RUN. If you are a nurse, I'm sure you deserve BETTER and I wish you luck. >>

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Unregistered
It's so easy to generalize and say the previous poster has a bad attitude, but remember how many years she has put up with abuse. She is absolutely correct in stating that nurses have been taught to accept abuse as a normal part of the job. Everyone in the profession that I have met will tell you it started in nursing school with instructors that were witches, or definitely worse than drill instructors. Anyone with common sense can tell you there is no need for all that crap that instructors give students. Yes, the weak and lazy need to be weeded out during school, but the nurses start eating their young in school and it gets worse after that. I'm sure this poster is a good nurse with 35 years of experience. She's frustrated like so many of us and is using this forum as a means to vent. Please allow her to do this without assuming she is a bad nurse.

I agree! Just because you're unhappy DOESN'T mean you are 'bad' at what you do NOR does it imply that you have a 'bad attitude.'

ALL behavior has meaning.

There is such a 'trend' in nursing to vilify the person who 'complains' ... it's just another example of ABUSE! It's a tactic employed by middle and upper level management to keep 'the girls' in 'line.' IT's DISGUSTING! Perhaps the 'bad attitude' poster is management .... hmmmm???? Can't handle a little truth???

People complain because something is WRONG -- and when their concerns fall upon deaf ears, then they become bitter! I'm sure this woman has endured much in 35 years of nursing! She DESERVES her VENT TIME!

[gojack10]

Here is the reality being commented on again. Amen.

Many of the people posting who are hostile to other nurses venting are one of two types. They are either low level management, or they are management wannabes. In nursing school, this was taught us, in fact. As students, we were told that it is the goal to aspire to be management and not to 'limit' ourselves to floor nursing. OK, for a year, then get out we were told.

The teachers saw floor work as a dead end for dead enders. And they held up the ideal of the ANA as organization to join, which itself has the same attitude about nursing. The ANA has been pushing the idea that they are 'professionals', unlike the grunts who do most of the work. The ANA nurse is working hand in hand with administrators and government, to better nursing and medical care they say. That is the line they push and pushed in the majority of states. God forbid that they be seen as a labor union! That was never their goal.

But isn't that a management apporoach itself. It is not an approach that represents the nurse most involved in patient care. Sure, these folk have RN on their name tag, but they are more like administrative hacks inside their heads. And in their actions, too. They cheerlead no matter how destructive the policies are. They are paragons of so-called positive thinking, when a tad of cynicism is more often the attitude needed.

They are often workaholics who get angry at others for not leaping head first into the grind with a big stupid smile on their faces. But strangely, their workaholism is often away from where the work actually is! They are workaholics when it comes to seeing themselves as being part of the management team and doing management 'work'.

Often of course, this leads to a brutal crash later. But even when they go out the door entirely from nursing, these types will still be talking about how much they were doing in a wonderful field. In short, they often don't have much honesty even with themselves. They still hold onto the 'Love a Nurse" brand imagery that makes nurses seen as trustworthy folk, and sparkling White. Of course, the sparkling White nurse image, is that of a lower level professional administrator (and/or advertising con), and not the grumpy, overworked bedside nurse actually keeping people alive in bad settings.

The Drug Pusher

[Unregistered]

I don't mean to sound rude but this phrase: "nurses eat their young", is used too frequently by nurses. It sounds like a cliche it becomes boring to the reader. Your post would have a greater impact if you left out the cliches. I hope I haven't offended anyone.

[Unregistered]

I don't mean to sound rude but this phrase: "nurses eat their young", is used too frequently by nurses. It sounds like a cliche and it becomes boring to the reader. Your post would have a greater impact if you left out the cliches. I hope I haven't offended anyone.