10 Things You Should Stop Complaining About in Nursing

Adam Starr needs to spend two weeks in the role of a professional nurse, and then see how he feels about nurse-patient ratios and acuity vs numbers because in the for-profit world it is all about numbers, not acuity and the patients are the ones who suffer no matter what the mantra is "Oh patient care is our number one priority". Yeah, right! if patient care was the number one priority, nursing assignments would be handled much differently as would staffing. One would see many more nurses and techs on the floor to care for the patients, not the "pocketbook"

i dont like this article.

I am sure you would not wish the same thing if you come to the hospital and the nurse could not attend to your family member because she had too many patients an your love on is dead because of work overload. then you would want the system to change wouldn't you? it is so different when relatives are involved isn't it?

This article is demeaning towards nurses. I have worked 13.5 hours at a time with NO break and then have been charged for the "break" that I didn't get. I've been denied pay even though I was made to stay anywhere from a half hour to 1.5 hours late (FORCED TO due to a patient with a medical emergency at change of shift, etc).
The author of this article should be fired, Nursing Link should be ashamed. And new grads without a job, WELL YOU DO N-O-T KNOW so mind your manners until you have some actual experience and some vague idea of what you are talking about.
I have 20 years nursing experiece. I am a professional who takes pride in my work. However; even I can have been given so many patients that it has been detrimental to the safe and effective care of the patients. We are supposed to give safe, effective professional nursing care. It's not about the $$$, it's about not having a patient die because a nurse had 5 blood transfusions, TPN, and cardiac drips all running on the ELEVEN patients that she had as a patinet load. And, yes that HAS happened to me. And I had a patient go bad. I pulled in a cardiologist in and BEGGED him to move his patient to ICU from Telemetry. And he said, "Why can't you spend more time with him, you only get 6 patinets on this floor". And, yes the hospital had told him that. I clarified my workload to him and he had the patinet moved to the ICU. He also complained to the hospital management. And I got called onto the carpet for letting him know that I had ELEVEN HIGH ACUITY PATIENTS on my workload. Sadly, this is common.
So, miss or mr new grad who knows it all already, come back when you actually know something. And Mr Starr (the author) slink back into your delusional world. And "Nursing Link", try actually asking some real floor working nurses to write your articles. And quit insulting nurses.

Here is some "perspective", how about being taken care of by a nurse that just got into the field because of job security and does the minimum for a paycheck and puts up with unsafe work environments?

oh and stop docking my pay for "breaks" that i "get" and i'll be happy to not take them.

Please flag Adam Starr's article as inappropriate.

This article is insulting and disrespectful to every good, hardworking, dedicated nurse out there- NursingLink should be downright ashamed and apologize to all its members for posting it. And for all you new grads out there who still live in your world of the ideal- talk to me in 6 months after you start working. I guarantee you won't feel the same.