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Some horrific experiences, I’m shocked and saddened.
my niece was a devoted nurse and was promoted to a ‘junior’ sister age 28. She was so keen and hardworking, praised by doctors, thanked by patients and their families.
what let her down were her nurses. Some older who resented her rank, younger who didn’t take the job seriously. Bank staff who were ineffective because they wouldn’t get to grips with the ward if only there for a few shifts.
Worst of all she wasn’t supported by her managers (of which there seemed to be an infinite hierarchy). Nurses who didn’t like her management, training, delegation & disciplinary styles would just go over her head and complain. Because these ‘managers’ had no management training, skills or experience they took the line of least resistance and sided with the nurses.
My brother and I coached her but it was too big a task. In the end she resigned because she worried that it was only a matter of time before a patient was harmed or worse by staff (in)actions.
she now works happily for a private clinic, doing hospital bank shifts to maintain her professional requirements.
my niece was a devoted nurse and was promoted to a ‘junior’ sister age 28. She was so keen and hardworking, praised by doctors, thanked by patients and their families.
what let her down were her nurses. Some older who resented her rank, younger who didn’t take the job seriously. Bank staff who were ineffective because they wouldn’t get to grips with the ward if only there for a few shifts.
Worst of all she wasn’t supported by her managers (of which there seemed to be an infinite hierarchy). Nurses who didn’t like her management, training, delegation & disciplinary styles would just go over her head and complain. Because these ‘managers’ had no management training, skills or experience they took the line of least resistance and sided with the nurses.
My brother and I coached her but it was too big a task. In the end she resigned because she worried that it was only a matter of time before a patient was harmed or worse by staff (in)actions.
she now works happily for a private clinic, doing hospital bank shifts to maintain her professional requirements.