“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.
> You must be a RN because you sound just like them. <
Ha, no. But I have a few in the family. And yes, sometimes a complaint is just a complaint. But sometimes it’s valid. From what I hear, it’s a pure numbers thing. The amount of patients each RN is responsible for is increasing.
Were the numbers too low before? Or are they too high now?
I am not an RN, but last year I had a medical condition that required going to the hospital every day for a couple of months. So I got to know a few working nurses. I didn’t get the impression that the nurses were lazy, but rather that they were overwhelmed by all they were expected to do. In particular, none seemed happy with hospital administration.
Here’s the odd thing. Nurses who were ‘travelers’ could make a lot more money than nurses who held steady jobs at hospitals. The logic of it escaped me. Take a stranger to a hospital, all of which are like mazes, and expect equal efficiency to someone who works there, knows the doctors, patients, etc., but there you are. That’s how it apparently is.
This is anecdotal, so take it with as many grains of salt as you wish. I have no doubt there are lazy nurses and I fell sorry for anyone who falls into their care, because in my opinion, the nurse who tends you when you are ill can make all of the difference.
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