Sick of Management

Aim of management - To get something for nothing

Aim of nursing staff - To give the best with nothing

From my first days as a new graduate nurse to many years later, all I've ever seen is senior management making life miserable for those that do the caring.

A classic example: Happened in my first ten months working. The ward was very short staffed and bed numbers increased from 25 to 30 beds. The charge nurse wanted to recruit this student nurse who had been working her electives there for the past four weeks. She was a great student who worked well and the staff liked. When the charge nurse wanted to employ her, the big bosses said no. The charge nurse (best I've ever worked under) quit as she was sick of not being able to do what was not just right, but safe, for the ward staffing level.

Within one month of her resigning, the student nurse (now a graduate nurse) was getting work on a 'on call' basis, all the time. This happened because the understaffed and overworked nurses in the ward kept calling in sick. The big management types realised that the extra workload with those five extra beds was too much for the already overworked nurses. They eventually employed the newly qualified nurse that the now resigned charge nurse wanted to.

Result - One great charge nurse lost. More anger/frustration at management.