The conditions we are working in in the health care system now are no where near good enough. It’s not good enough for the staff, not good enough for the patients, not good enough for patients families.
It is as though we are expected to go & go & go until we literally drop dead & even then it is an inconvenience to management or the executives in my hospital. I have never felt so expendable in my life.
The amount of experienced nurses we have lost ( & not replaced ) over the last 2 years has only placed even more responsibility on the rest of us. This has become as expectation in my hospital. I completely understand why each of them left. They received Very little if any appreciation or recognition for all the years they gave to nursing & it all became too much.
At the end of all of this I feel worse because not only am I broken, traumatised, exhausted, unmotivated, struggling, overworked, we continue to be silenced over & over.
It’s as though the people above us think if they ignore us for long enough we will go away or just get on with it but they are wrong.