5. Somebody asking how things are going—somebody who’s not a coworker or an immediate manager—and then listening to the answer. I couldn’t tell you the last time I saw the director of nursing for my facility, or the Vice President of Patient Services or the Occupational Health people. They don’t come around. They’re busy as heck, I understand that, but somebody somewhere needs to realize that we, along with the cleaning folks and the secretaries and the maintenance guys, are the ones who make their world go ’round.
Will it all happen? I don’t know. In the aftermath of Nurses Week 2011, I’m not optimistic.
Stay tuned for part 2: five systemic changes that would make Nurses Week obsolete.
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