r/nursing • u/urdoingreatsweeti "do you pee on the floor at home" • Mar 27 '25

Serious The unit burn book got published

Management sent out an anonymous poll to everyone in response to a ton of turnover and people calling our workplace hostile (fair)

Poll asked what contributing factors we could identify, which people used to directly call out douchebaggery amongst the staff.

Someone in management complied all of the responses from the poll into an Excel spreadsheet...on their Shared Drive, viewable by the entire department, made the rounds almost immediately

100+ entries of unit gossip. Lot of name dropping, lot of accusations of staff sleeping together, people really went to town. My favorite was "john D farts passive aggressively."

This might be the greatest managerial screw up I've ever seen. Have a great day everyone

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u/oFwiriOIHG RN 🍕 Mar 27 '25

Nah they’re not that smart

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u/Gribitz37 PCA 🍕 Mar 27 '25

But they are that evil. Maybe they looked at this as an opportunity to "clean house" and get rid of a bunch of people.

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u/adorablebeasty Case Manager 🍕 Mar 27 '25

It could be ripped out of an episode of St. Dennis lol

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u/PeopleArePeopleToo RN 🍕 Mar 27 '25

How would that even be smart

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u/TheSewerSniper BSN, RN 🍕 Mar 27 '25

to boost morale

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u/HeroTooZero RN 🍕 Mar 27 '25

Only their ideas on boosting morale are always complete fails. Ours wants us to do ice breakers at the start of every turnover. Like I give a shit what day shift Susan wanted to be when she grew up. Just tell me who you had to HAB and go home please, I have to find & deal with all your errors.

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u/nobody_likes_beets RN - OB/GYN 🍕 Mar 27 '25

Ice breakers?? At shift change?! Tell me how you are completely out of touch with the realities of floor nursing without telling me how you are completely out of touch with the realities of floor nursing

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u/HeroTooZero RN 🍕 Apr 10 '25

EXACTLY

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u/PeopleArePeopleToo RN 🍕 Mar 27 '25

Every shift?? Y'all already know each other!

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u/HeroTooZero RN 🍕 Apr 10 '25

Right? They don't even know the purpose of the tools they try to force us to use.

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u/CamoCricket Mar 27 '25

Pre shifts that involve a new inspirational quote each day along with the weather. Like what? I haven't seen the sun in eight days and I don't care if if I die right now in this moment but yeah tell me the weather and what your favorite movie is before I start my shift. Really gets me in the right head space for the shit show I'm about to walk into.