reasons for poor morale within a ward:
- working early in the morning
- no control/sense of order in shift patterns
- getting talked down/patronised by night staff/early staff
- nurses scrawl and disappear for a good 30mins off the ward without telling anyone where they have gone
- having done a good shift, and the staff taking over slash out at you for not completing everything
- getting asked to fill in charts when you honestly have no idea what the patient had
- not getting a handover
- promises made by the matron not fulfilled
- when staff members such as doctors or physiotherapists blank a friendly greeting
- needy patient greedy patient attention seeking patient
- cleaning shit/getting faecal matter over your uniform
- the uniform colour -.-
- nurses telling you to 'communicate better' when the obvious is so obviously evident just by looking at the patients or from the distressed tone in your voice calling the nurse for help a while back
- repetition of work, inability to work with other members of staff such as doctors and therapists
- answering the dreaded phone calls D: is that just me?
- no weekly in-service training, being excluded from training sessions
- excluded from MDT meetings
- measuring urine output every hour
- when you have to 'get out' from patient bed-side because doctors want to finish their morning round
- getting told off by other HCAs for not leaving patient bedside when doctors come to check on patients >.> please explain to me why we have to do this because no-one could justify why we need to do this.
- matron being extra upbeat and demanding the same attitude from you
- matron demanding you to be more than 'fine'or 'ok' or 'doing well'
- asking the matron to escalate an issue and having her laugh in your face
- matron lying between her teeth
- asking other staff members about an issue and finding that its been prominent for a good 2 years...
- the sense of helplessness in other healthcare assistants
- back-biting taking place at the end of every shift
- when you end up with a lazy nurse / uncompliant member of staff on your shift
- when doctors use the 'doctor's voice' on you =_=;
enough gore for now, hope i didn't ruin anybody's day with this list.
if you have more reasons post in comments if you may.
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