A survey of 95,449 nurses found that 24% of those in hospitals and 27% of those in nursing homes were dissatisfied with their jobs, compared with 13% of nurses at pharmaceutical companies and other settings. The study in Health Affairs also found that 34% of hospital nurses and 37% of nursing home nurses experienced burnout, compared with 22% of nurses in other settings. Nurse.com (2/14)
Is the situation getting any better?
Right now in today's economy so many places seem to be cutting back on hours, staffing, even how they pay you or how they let you use you honestly earned PL time.
Is patient care the place to cut back? When study after study shows that staffing ratios and work stresses effect patient falls, pressure sore development, and medication errors to name just a few.
Many nurses rely on a specific number of hours and cutting back effects satisfaction and morale. Also cutting back on nurses hours generally just sends them looking for other jobs, limiting their availability when the time comes again (and it always does) that they are needed for overtime. Most nurses are interested in being loyal to one place but they also want consistency and paychecks they can count on. Not being able to get all the time they want one month, then cut back on this month's whim.
Too many facilities play this yo-yo situation with their nurses and essentially make it impossible to stay loyal to one place. Then they complain when nurses divide said loyalty.
When will they learn to stop cutting off their noses to spite their faces...This is just one example...More to follow... :-)
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