Sometimes at work, upper management makes decisions that astound us. Like the decision to have a department that has EX-ICU nurses come and give the ICU re-education on our charting pitfalls. It is even more insulting the moment you realize the information being taught is incorrect and against protocol.
It just opened my eyes AGAIN to how nurses are treated as things and not people.
It is hard I think, because a VAST number of nurses in the field today are single parents, working to keep the family alive, and there is fear there. Fear to point out unfair treatment, fear of retaliation, fear of losing a much-needed job.
Where does the change begin? Who advocates for nurses in their own workplace? There does not seem to be any sort of advocacy in place to address such contempt for those who work to be all they can be for themselves, their patients, their employers.
Incivility and bullying does not just come from peers on the floor, but many times from management above. Who advocates for whom?
The Nurses' Lounge 