Well, that's a very nice thought and I wish I could say I think that nurses
uniting would happen but I don't. We haven't been able up to this point to make
our profession a better one for ourselves. Most treat it as a job and not a
career and are just not invested fully in improving things.
And how about the nursing shortage being created by nurses who treat each
other like crap, and who don't support and mentor each other? The nurses who
have inferiority complexes talk down to other nurses so that they can make
themselves feel better about who they are, and in the process they are forcing
the good nurses who want to make a difference but who can't stand the BS to go
elsewhere.
As an educator, it is very difficult and frustrating to invest a lot of time
and effort into orienting new people only to stand by and watch my orientees get
eaten alive by the seasoned RNs. Instead of mentoring, they make them feel
stupid and small. So why should a nurse subject herself/himself to the torture
and the horizontal violence of their colleagues, when they can sit behind a
telemonitor somewhere or make a home visit or work in an insurance company doing
chart reviews in a little cubicle in piece and quiet?
So you're right. We do it to ourselves and for various reasons! I don't know
when everyone is going to realize this!!


LED521@... wrote:
Nurses have allow this shortage to occur. We allow the hospitals and
society to think that nurses are as replaceable as paper charting. Nurses need
to
unite and demand the respect that the profession deserves. We are put down
(and definitely not backed up) by the CEOs, Directors and MDs. Society and most
administration see nurses as those who put Band-Aids and bedpans on patients.
They don't realize that the simple process of wiping butts and bathing are
important for determining skin assessment and detecting bed sores. We as
Nurses need to let society know that it may require a doctor to admit a patient
in
the hospital, but it requires a nurse to get out of one.

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