Luckily, our nurses call patients over the phone and offer general education, so there’s no one suffering if they can’t make a call for some reason.

Our nurses took the job because they want to teach people and help them live with their illnesses. Now they’re treated like telemarketers, and they hate it. I don’t think the company gets it that nurses have other options in employment. We’ve had eight quit in the past two weeks so far (out of 130).

@Rusty: The Q person is mad because I got so frustrated that I finally broke down and told the class how to defend themselves against QMs who don’t know what they’re talking about. This is not providing a “united front” and I was wrong to let that show. But I’m sorry - I’m on the nurses’ side!

My Pop was in a nursing home before he died. I know that the demands on nurses are horrible, but when h’ed buzz them; wait an hour for them to change his soiled garments and then have to endure their comments that his mess made them want to puke?

The funny thing was that after he died, the nursing home realized that Pop paid in cash for his care and never. EVER complained about the benign neglect absolutely shitty care he got.

I’m too fucking worked up about this even remembering it.

What kills me is that your students obviously know the care they should be offering, but are forced to ration their attention according to some corporate plan, regardless of their patient’s needs.