Overbearing manager means somebody for whom relaxing after doing your job or reading on downtime means lazying around.
is this why nurses are always just disappearing and leaving patients to suffer?
Wouldn’t you? That job seems to be low pay with tons of hours. If you want to fix that, raise salaries and reduce hours so nurses can feel like human beings.
Yeah the hours the medical field demands seems ridiculous. I have a friend working 18 hour shifts as a transport driver. Why is that considered a good idea?
No, that’s because of the crushing weight of the charting and these places being chronically understaffed due to corporate greed. I worked as a CNA in a hospital, and we were doing our best to help everyone every second of our shift. It probably seemed like we were just disappearing because we never knew when we went into a room if we’d encounter a few seconds of questions, or if it would be an hour of assistance due to an emergency.
But I’ve also worked overnight at a nursing home, and there was definitely some downtime there, including for nurses.
You still have times when there is nothing to do?
I haven’t seen that… in decades.
If there is no patient care there is documentation. If there is no documentation there is administration/supplies. If that is done there is something to clean.
And if that is done there might be a paper/medical book to read.Or discuss a case with someone.
…Okay, you got me…I am a former manager…
But tbf, we have sacred break times here, but when you work you work. (And well, we have less hours than people in other countries)
Stop being lazy???
Where in your job description does it say you can “relax after doing your job or reading on downtime”?
I’m sure there is something for you to do?
