That is a win-win situation. If the nurse is needed to work the unit, she is already there. If not, some charts have been audited and the nurse has kept a few hours of PTO. You will be paying that nurse for those hours anyway with PTO dollars. Let there be someone to gather extra supplies out of the rooms after each shift rather than seal off the cabinets making it impossible for all to have easy access to what is needed to serve the patient. You want to save money, evaluate the waste of time needed searching for supplies verses the cost of supply waste. Provide an admission packet of supplies so that there is only one trip to the supply room and everything that is needed is in one place, easily accessible, at the time of admission. This saves time and time is money, as they say. There are so many ways to meet and solve problems without making the staff experience hardship or creating frustration and anger. If someone habitually is late clocking out, have them get a note from their charge nurse, not make everyone do this. Many are clocking out and then completing their work on their own time. This could create a major problem should someone be injured and not on the clock. That sure wouldn’t save money! And that really is what all this is about. Saving money. Reality is, health care is a business and it can’t survive without making money. That is a given. There are many ways to spend the dollars we do have and not create an environment that festers belittlement and degradation. No one wins that way. Nor does anyone win when adults are treated as children and experience ongoing insults to their integrity and self-worth. It is an established fact that when a person feels good about themselves and what they are doing, they will accomplish a lot more in less time. And that saves money!

  All in all, I am not sorry about my resignation because I do not believe positive changes will occur at my former work place. An attitude has been set into motion by the management of this facility that will in time cause many other workers to leave for similar reasons as I did. People who enter nursing do so for a very specific reason. They will leave if they are unfulfilled and feel degraded. And that costs money also!

 
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