How Life Goes On Even With Change

The times of a nurse has changed over my 10 years of practice. Yes, learning advanced techniques and modern medicine have changed the way we live and practice for the better. We have treated diseases even 10 years ago were unthinkable. Reflecting on my career as a nurse, I began because I wanted to share love, to give kindness and compassion. Not for medicine, but for a goal of making you feel your best inside and out.

Now most hospitals focus is so keen on fixing the problem the fastest that we forget the essential part of being a nurse – compassion. Compassion for our patients, ourselves and each other. The times for compassion is here.

Run down and tired after the last year staff morale is at an all time low. Staffing has become frightening and most hospitals and the lack of nurses available is shocking. Most nurses have been forced floor in conditions unheard of while maintaining all the regulations that hospitals require. We are yelled at by managers and patients alike while fighting to find time to eat a granola bar. Something by a got to give and I’m not sure what will break first.

This is the time for nurses to unite as a group and work together. The only way we will survive this trail is to get through the fire together as a team. Help each other, lean on each other and so your best to stand tall. We are all aching, we are all sick of the lack of respect, of the emotional roller coaster, of the poor staffing and bad ratios. We are all tired.

what can nurses do during this time of trail? Let me know in the comments below. If you missed last weeks post check it out here.