The idea of "the grind" amongst the younger generation also has become detrimental to some of them where they see the pay but not the bigger picture. It happens in every industry and career field and it's crazy trying to break some of these young guys of the idea that by putting up with shit they'll get noticed by management.
It's worse than that: imagine a workforce almost entirely made up of codependents. All the officially-printed signs about how you're responsible for your own "self-care," and then they guilt staff into more shifts and more workload because if you don't,
who will care for the patients? (And if that doesn't work,
letting your coworkers down.)
This crap is why I'll never work in a hospital again. Not from the shit I've been seeing in /r/nursing.
"I graduated three months ago and now I'm precepting and also I'm charge with a full patient load" like what the fuck is going ON. They just running these nurses until their wheels fall off? Working in the ED was always a shitshow at the best of times but if you told me this was going to be the current state of health care I would have never believed it.
1. Yes
2. It's so hard to find anything but anecdotes, because everything gets bogged down in COVID partisanship and the official info sources are corporations.
One huge problem here is that the SNFs have no staff, moreso than usual for SNFs. SNFs (LTC etc.) can barely take any discharges, and pick and choose so they don't end up with patients with tough behavioral issues. So med/surg is backed up with patients who were ready to discharge literally six months ago, and ED is holding med/surg patients for their entire 2-3 day admissions, and more people keep walking in the door. If ED staff wanted to work inpatient, they'd have signed up for that, and now they're turning, pottying and Ensuring Satisfaction at the same time they're trying to stabilize ED patients.
Obviously the thing to do is to send out sanctimonious form emails about how you touched the chart of a patient who later developed a pressure injury, so since you're a lazy idiot would you like to go to a class about how to treat and prevent pressure injuries?
What do you mean morale problem; heroes work here.
Dropping in to say this is a great idea for a thread and I'm glad it's been done. NPs are often the worse people you knew in high school now lecturing you on social media on "public health" when half of them crush pills and change pisspans for old people.
This thread has developed wicked subject drift; sounds like you're talking about regular nurses (and lowest-paid nurses) being full of themselves. This is nominally a thread for the hubris of midlevels; NPs have gotten their credentials to get away from bedpans.
Unless there are NP imposters out there. There probably are; I've met an
LPN imposter. (It turned out she was a dental receptionist.) I didn't ask why she picked LPN to claim; probably like changing the D on your report card to a B instead of shooting for the suspicious A.
