Management talks a lot to make it sound like they care but nothing actually changes (what is the point of those Glint surveys, anyway?). Staffing ratios are terrible (although wouldn’t actually be too bad if they ACTUALLY stuck to the ratios they claim rather than browbeating the charge RNs). Multiple people in supervisory positions guilt people for taking care of themselves if they call off, shamed for taking approved FMLA. Work/life balance is very difficult when being contacted on every day off to ask you to come in to work (why do you THINK people are calling off all the time?? It is EXHAUSTING working short-staffed all the time. Beef up your float pool, please.) Patients are not first for this system—money is. Bedside nursing has gotten worse and worse, but even more so with COVID. “Heroes work here” signs aren’t enough—find more staff and treat them like the commodity they are! Huge signing bonuses for RNs from the outside?? And why are you cutting physician pay to give the nurses bonuses? How about cutting ENTERPRISE pay to give bonuses? Your nurses, CNAs, doctors, respiratory, imaging techs, EVS, lab staff, telemetry—these are what keep your hospital going. These are the people helping make those profits. Don’t rob Peter to pay Paul and then wonder why it’s so hard to keep quality staff.
