oh Sooo True,

I agree I left direct nursing care due to a lot of what was said I love patient care but the politics and added responsibilities to RN when we worked with LPN and CNA on our team overwhelming .

Absolutely agree. This is the best description of the virus called Magnet
Our hospital in Denton is overrun with pseudo management positions and committees

I don't know who composed this,but Well Done!

Food as a reward for a good survey outcome does not do it for me. I am a nurse because I love my patients( most)I am actually considering leaving because of burnout.

I am a nurse with a CCRN behind my name and 30 years experience and I am exhausted with all the surveys I must lie about just to make administration look good. What is my reward you ask, food!

Important...some of the best nurses I have ever worked with had just those two letters

Theresa I am not suggesting anyone lower their standards, I just don't think lots of letters after your name makes you a better nurse than someone with"just" RN...those two letters are the most import

Erica pls finish your comment...

Amen! You forgot one thing (I'm sure we could all think of more) We are nurses to the families too. This means more calls more time talking to the family (the side conference in the hall). 💜

Gr8 article! imho. RNs who care about good care are awesome. Let's continue to support each other in the face of all the nonsense.

Dead On ! I can be a GREAT NURSE ANYWHERE BUT...Times and methodologies are changing my love for the "sport". Shame on PROGRESS for taking the LOVE out of the work place and my Career!

If this isn't enough then maybe nursing is not for you. You did not give any ideas for changing the system just a lot of bitching. How does affordable health care "Obama care" hurt nursing?

have been a nurse in peds for 36 years..not liking the direction nursing is going..ditto to Jill..work with great nurses who don't have their BSN...very sad...

I am so glad I only have 10 years left. I have been on magnet committees and No one knew what their job was.

I too work in a magnet hospital. I have 20 yrs critical care experience, I am being forced to get my bachelors degree if I want to keep my job. The committees, OMG, such a waste of time, $.

It's like you're living in my head!

All administrative BS! So glad I am at the end of my career! So sad!

I have been working Bedside almost 10 years. I graduated from a diploma nursing program none of my bsn courses have made me a better nurse. But Bsn was forced on us.

WOW!, nailed it!! many "New Grads" and most of them were moving on to NP right out of Nusing School With no floor experience?! 12 years of Critical Care!! I moved to Information Services. Good luck!

My experience as a Registered nurse was greatly decreased when my hospital became a magnet hospital. Gone was the satisfaction I had from giving good care to my patients.

I retired from nursing at the age of 55. You couldn't pay me enough to be a nurse today. I spent my entire career at the hospital bedside. My sympathy for those of you I left behind.

This article is right on What happened to the Associate Degree nurses who were also known as technical bedside caregivers. It would be insane to think everyone is a boss.

Amen to this article! Nursing is not what it used to be when I graduated from a very good Hospital based program. Little has to do with caring for the pt at bedside

That is why I retired two years ago at age 62. They were pushing older nurses out the door because we remembered what real nursing was about. I loved my patients but had no time to spend with them.

Spot on. I could go on a rant but will not. It's all about WEALTHCARE not Healthcare. Look around. So sad for the layperson that is not affected until admission.

excellent article

Wow preach it! This is exactly what I have felt for years, but was told I was wrong. You have hit the nail squarely on the head.

Have been in nursing for 42 yrs you are spot on

Those who want to know what Obama care has to do with this ? Bad surveys = less paid by Medicare. No matter what the pt outcome is !!

I wish there was more room to comment. Nursing is very discouraging if you are a 'baby boomer' The work ethic of younger nurses is not the same. The theory that BSN nurses are better prepared is crap.

Exactly !! Not every nurse wants to be an administrator or an NP! If all nurses wanted to do this who would be left at the bedside actually caring for the sick ???

I feel like I could have written this article! I am 60yrs old and a Diploma grad. For Various reasons I didn't go back to school. I would not be hired at a 'magnet' hospital.

Patients that are elderly and are expecting to be treated as they were in the past will not get the time or the service as they once had. The nurses today are being discouraged so sorry nurses.

This is precisely the reason I retired. Nursing is no longer nursing, it's paperwork, committees, career ladders. It's a business, no longer a calling or a privilege to serve

What should change is the nurse to patient ratio. Insurance or ability to pay shouldn't have anything to do with the quality of care we deliver. If ur an older nurse, forget u.

I completely agree with others that have stated the whole Magnet thing has gotten way out of hand...RNs must have a BS, no LPNs (which are great to have on a med/surg floor or post partum floor).

Magnet empowers RN's to do one thing only ... to do the work of management for management all the while attempting to do bedside care. Once I drank the koolaid then I woke up...

Its such a bunch of crap magnet.we have an EGO problem in nursing. Lets get back to basics get rid of Obama care government out of medicine its worse now notbetter. Run 20 yrs in a magnet hospital.

MAGNET is a big fat expensive purple feather in the administrator's hat! I've have not seen one good thing it has done for nursing in our facility!

This is exactly why my days as a nurse are numbered. I didn't get into nursing for all this crazy stuff. 20 years ago, bedside actually mattered.

I have been a Type 1 Diabetic since the age of 4 (I'm now 49). Thru all my years of hospitilazation, I miss the time when I use to matter!!! Our Nurses are our lifeline, let them!!!

I think I wrote this article ( in my head) like a thousand times .... 23 years and still another 23 at least to go.... Labor and delivery.....

What, exactly, is the "looming threat of Obamacare"?

Amen! I wish the government and the ANA would understand this but know! It is all about the money!!

With 30 total cares...the loudest squeak gets the oil! So sad....paperwork hogs my time....LPN
25 years...Alzheimers...

Patients continue to report that they most appreciate the kind of bedside nursing, as simple as a back rub, (what's that!). Let's get back to basics. What would you want as a patient?

This is happening in many occupations. Take for another example the new standards for teaching. They seem to leave out the individual student. Too many hands involved in setting standards they know no

I am retired now, but I remember when my hospital became magnet designated. We were required to coach the patient to put excellent for their surveys on care received. Any other word not acceptable

Ok so when your CNO codes just let all the new grad BSN run her code!!! LOL