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10 Things You Should Stop Complaining About in Nursing
Adam Starr | NursingLink
Shift Supervisor/Manager
You may not love your boss. You may not even like your boss. As important as this fact is to you, it doesn’t mean that the entire hospital wants to hear about it. In a perfect world, you would harmonize with all of your fellow nurses. In this world, you don’t need to be friends with your shift supervisor to work together professionally. Minimize the personal distractions and focus on the larger issues of achieving quality patient care.
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If you don’t want to have a boss, why not explore your other options like working as a consulting nurse? Or virtual nursing? Ever considered starting your own business? If things pan out, perhaps you can quit your old job and work for yourself. Who knows, maybe one day you will become the boss and have the opportunity to see what it’s like to have your subordinates complain about you and your management style.
nuttmeg
over 2 years ago
6 comments
Ok, my last comment had to do with talking about private lives at work. Now that I'm reading NOT to complain about workload? Who wrote this??? The hospital managers??
nuttmeg
over 2 years ago
6 comments
This is what is known as a "boundary" issue. Nurses are notorious for lousy boundaries. Take it from one who knows.
nuttmeg
over 2 years ago
6 comments
Not required? Maybe. But breaks are mandatory by law and we are not staffed well enough for one of us to leave the unit and go get dinner. THAT'S why they used to provide it. We frequently get no break at all, so the bottom line of the hospitals' profit margin doesn't interest me as much as it used to. I make my contribution daily.
debrafan53
over 2 years ago
2 comments
As a recent grad nurse who can't find a job, even when I try every day, I feel employed nurses should stop complaining period. You knew what you were getting into. If you just went into nursing for the money, then that's a shame. Working in my current CNA job, I know that most nurses make 2-4 times what I make.
Inara
over 2 years ago
64 comments
Well these are things you could complain about with any job! It's not just for nursing.
ChrisSMN
over 2 years ago
6 comments
#11: This article. LOL.
I think that the point of this was to say what you can do instead of complaining, like "instead of complaining, do this to fix it." Complaining is pretty pointless isn't it?
only1dna
over 2 years ago
4 comments
IF YOU HAVE A JOB YOU SHOULDNT BE COMPLAINING AT ALL!!!
FOR ALL YOU WEINERS OUT THERE< SUCK IT UP AND DO YOUR JOB AND BE THANKFUL EVERYDAY THAT YOU HAVE ONE!!
sammytalk
over 2 years ago
2 comments
I thought at one point in time that this nursing-link was written by nurses but it is clearly not. Many of the things written were just purely disrespectful and with out understanding. Things such as work load are not just to complain but for patient safety. Try running a ICU that has six patients with only two nurses. Two patients code simultaneously then what happens to the other four patients. Yes this happens and its all to save a buck. As this article mentions many things get cut back but its not the benefits I'de worry about, try patient safety. Why don't you guys write an article on how hospital budget cuts effect patient safety and how employee fatigue leads to medical errors.
marywang46
over 2 years ago
8 comments
I am a recent nursing school grad with NO job in sight and I think if you have a job right now you're lucky. I like this article as a reminder of that.
tranurse
over 2 years ago
8 comments
did the hospitals get together and write this article???????
elisa7
over 2 years ago
2 comments
Wow, this might be one of the least sensitive articles written for nurses. I'm graduating in two weeks and if this is how it really is, we'll see how long this profession will last, I went into it because I have huge compassion for ill patients but I'm not sure if I'm able to put up with everything else it comes with. It is not about the money at all since I had a previous job with lot less stress making damn close to the nursing salary.
wbkiehl
over 2 years ago
196 comments
as long as we're considered "angels of mercy" at best and "cost centers" or "expendable" at worst, they'll pay us with what they can get away with.
traumaliz
over 2 years ago
2 comments
I got to the delicate snowflake comment and stopped reading---what kind of BS is this? We're working harder, getting less respect, and this is what is written?
rondodondo
over 2 years ago
14 comments
Holy crap this article must have been written by some nursing school instructor. To put SALARY as the number one thing NOT to complain about is the same garbage they brainwash you with in school. Hello, the job isnt long on satisfaction and if the money is crappy why would'nt you complain about it. Nurses need to make money. There I said it. It's not so bad is it? Im surprised that the writer didn't suggest that we could help the hospitals hold down cost by taking some linen home and night and washing them in our own machines. After all a team player would do that wouldn' they?