Reconsidering my job
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I’m a mid-career RN whose experience and knowledge should be valuable, but I’m ready to walk away from the bedside. If nursing ratios aren’t implemented, I will be reconsidering my job.
The squeeze from my employer is constant, and the gains that we have fought for using the workload language in our collective agreement have to be fought for even harder to implement and maintain, despite the proven improvements to patient safety and care!
I see senior “leadership,” management and administration continue to grow and bloat while direct bedside nursing care is cut to balance budgets. It makes no sense, and at the end of the day patients suffer and we suffer with them.
We don’t need to have more management in more meetings that could have been an email to know that what matters is patient care, and that the people who provide that care are becoming fewer and far between.
I’m tired of the working conditions, of being expected to constantly do more with less, of the violence and disrespect. I’m tired of the years of education I paid for being dismissed and devalued in the name of austerity.
Shame on the Ford government! Shame on the Ontario Hospital Association! SHAME ON EVERY HEALTH-CARE ADMINISTRATOR TRYING TO PRIVATIZE OUR PUBLIC HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE MORE MONEY OFF THE BACKS OF SICK PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITIES! You all disgust me endlessly.
I will fight for my patients. I will fight for our public health-care system and I will fight for the workers providing care to patients.
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