> They just want more pay for less work. <
Or maybe a more reasonable work load. These days many nurses are assigned too many patients. Then everyone suffers.
“Or maybe a more reasonable work load. These days many nurses are assigned too many patients. Then everyone suffers.”
You must be a RN because you sound just like them. Just about every nurse I worked with for over 25 years used to make the same complaint. Truth was they were just lazy.
I get that, but they also want more pay as well.
I worked in a hospital. One of my jobs was to map the discharge cycle. I had to collect data on every step from an admission to a discharge. In essence, I was to see how we could move patents out of the hospital and get another patient in the bed. This had nothing to do with length of stay—but how we moved someone who was discharged, out of the hospital.
This biggest problem? Nurses would delay calling the housekeeping staff as long as they could so they wouldn’t have to take an “intake.” I found we could cut that time down by “checking out” patients at the front door, rather than waiting for the nurses.
The most egregious example was when patients died. I found the bed would be unfilled for almost a day. And no…it didn’t take a day to remove the body.
When I started asking those questions, I was thanked for my data. Then I was moved to a consolidation project that did not “touch” the nurses.
As individuals, I love nurses. As a group they can be a nasty herd of beasties.