I hired on with the hospital. Not as a doctor, but as medical staff. The one thing I have noticed is the overwelming negative attitude from the employees. Its not like they are strong unionists, its more like they are soured towards their employer.
Let me fill you in on something that is not exactly a secret. You bitches are working for one of the best employers in NS, yet you are all a bunch of ungrateful lazy wastes of skin. Where is your desire to do a good job? You don’t have it. And, don’t tell me that it is your employer’s fault. I have worked for employers 10 times shittier and I always found a reason to come to work, and work at a level that says ‘I care’.
I care about my work. I care about the patients that I support. I care about my profession.
And, I’m not about to let that all go to hell just because I’ve worked too long at 1 hospital to remember what it is like at other hospitals. If you remember, then you would realize how lucky we are to be here, and not there. —I Care
This article appears in Dec 15-21, 2011.
I like this post. It’s about time someone called them out….I agree with you OP 🙂
Be careful, someone will report you to NSGEU, then you’ll be in a pickle. Its the job of unions to make sure there are no happy employees in them or they would be of little use. It’s funny, you pay them 3.00/hour and they guarantee you unhappiness and contempt. Pretty food deal huh?
Fuck sakes… That’s “good” deal.
As a consumer of healthcare services, I find it a severe drag (and a Food Deal- if you manging poop sammiches) when employees gripe on the job or tell me to complain if I feel dehumanized, as if I’m being purposefully made to complain to do their dirty work.
Techs, nurses, etc: it’s not our fault we need to deal with the hospital. Please don’t punish the patients or their families.
Generally, service is professional though.
Wpaul
Nicely said OB.
Perhaps its time to implement work place changes. You know this week you work at this Hospital, next month your over at another one in Dartmouth.
Mix it up as much as possible.
The really good part is, they would actually have a decent reason to gripe & growl about that.
My last time in the Hospital, all the damn Nurses wanted to do was shoot you up & watch you nod off, until the next injection !
I had to threaten a nurse with physical harm to keep her from shooting another syringe of morphine into me…pretty bad when someone who’s all banged up & in jeopardy of losing a limb has to make the call,to so called experts on the over medicating that was being done to me ! ! !
I thought it was a prerequisite for medical staff to complain, of course lately it could be caused by the rumble that some may lose their jobs do to budget cuts, not sure if this affects Union staff or not
the grass is always greener on the other side. If you’ve been on both sides recently, then it is easier to be grateful.
You only confirmed what my sister, the nurse, has been telling me for the last ten years. She retired because of her lazy-arsed co-workers who, as far as she was concerned, were more into cash than compassion. Are they really worth $70,000 (plus overtime/double time) a year?
I have seen far too many examples of the type of staff OP is talking about in my many trips to the QEII over the last ten years – the unprofessionalism and neglect was and is still appalling.
OB, if you hear patients complaining about the service from a particular staff member, inform the patient to contact the hospital and file a complaint. It would be great if the complaint resulted in disciplinary action against the useless twat.
If you don’t like your job, go find another. I’m so sick of these bitchy old burnt out nurses who treat patients like crap because they’re too lazy to get off their asses and do their job. Like 30 bucks an hour isn’t enough for ya?