08/15/2026
I love nursing. I don't love the system that manages Healthcare.
Despite the claims to abort workplace violence, encourage empathy amongst fellow human beings, enforce equality, human beings with all their flaws still exist and run the system.
I have loved my recent floor work, however I cannot tolerate the judgement of coworkers nor the need to pull each other down. I blame all of us in this.
As women, people, we are meant to teach, encourage and empower one another. It is a stressful workplace. Yet the stress eats at us and we turn against one another because the problems we face (staff shortages, multiple high acuity patients, budget cuts, and management who will not step up to help or advocate for us), we end up targeting one another, or sometimes, just one.
Management and "educators" on the floor spend more energy taking people down rather than teaching, encouraging, empowering, facilitating growth.
We are all beginners at some point in our lives. We learn languages, toilet train, feeding ourselves, etc. We are meant to use our skills to help one another, not to bring defeat to our peers.
We all come from various experiences and have so much wisdom to offer. Let's not neglect that in our future interactions with each other, our patients, other health professionals.
I do believe that as a RN, I deserve as much respect as a MD, PA, NP, etc. We all bring to the table different skills to facilitate healing of the patient. We are equal and need to work as such to deliver the best care possible.