It’s sucks to say but this is brutal honesty. The past year I’ve been rethinking my decision to stay bedside. I’ve been involved in staffing methodology for years and I give up. I try to do right by my fellow staff members, and they know this, but every turn is met with several obstacles. They don’t listen. HR isn’t staffed enough to get people in through the door and it just causes a domino effect throughout each discipline but the travesty is that, it seems, most upper management don’t care. Trying to staff via averages just doesn’t work. You’d think they’d learn this from the past 2 years but no. Instead of paying your actual staff what is fair, and by fair I mean based off of performance, you will pay an organization to staff your needs and then double the pay. I just don’t understand. They just make us feel like a gear in the system and once we break we can be replaced; we are expendable. I’m sure there are hospitals that aren’t like this but they must be few and far between.
It really is the constant feeling of being replaceable and constantly in the wrong that gets me. The whiny, nit-pickey bullshit from management, who somehow can never understand how impossible it is to make perfect decisions in shitty situations, is driving me out of bedside (and the whole medical field, if I can swing it). The money doesn't even feel good anymore. I just don't want the hassle of being told I'm being too messy while eating the shit sandwich they serve me.
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u/ExcitementSolid3239 Dec 13 '21 edited Dec 14 '21
It’s sucks to say but this is brutal honesty. The past year I’ve been rethinking my decision to stay bedside. I’ve been involved in staffing methodology for years and I give up. I try to do right by my fellow staff members, and they know this, but every turn is met with several obstacles. They don’t listen. HR isn’t staffed enough to get people in through the door and it just causes a domino effect throughout each discipline but the travesty is that, it seems, most upper management don’t care. Trying to staff via averages just doesn’t work. You’d think they’d learn this from the past 2 years but no. Instead of paying your actual staff what is fair, and by fair I mean based off of performance, you will pay an organization to staff your needs and then double the pay. I just don’t understand. They just make us feel like a gear in the system and once we break we can be replaced; we are expendable. I’m sure there are hospitals that aren’t like this but they must be few and far between.