Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. ~Author Unknown
We've got just about the average number of baby boomer nurses who are eligible to retire soon, and since Manglement is being so kind, a couple have taken them up on their offers. Two so far have announced they're retiring, and those two alone have 75 years of combined experience in a variety of bedside settings, including the last 10 in rehab.
It also helps that Manglement is threatening to upend the Hotel and send all the specialty nurses floating here, there and everywhere since they're saving money by not hiring anyone. This is sending morale into the crapper, even in the units that traditionally have been extremely happy. Many are just sick and tired of all the idiocy of nurses in Manglement who haven't seen a live patient in a floor setting in years coming out of the woodwork and saying, "Just do more with less."
Less is certainly what they're getting out of some of the folks who work at our satellite hospitals. It is just sad.
Maybe one day, the nurse execs will lose their bonuses over it for all the turnover, but I'm not holding my breath.
It's getting pretty unsafe in these here parts...can't wait to move to the new office, if and when they can get all the construction done. Stay tuned.
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