It’s moral distress. It’s moral injury. Those words you never hear on the floor, only in research articles. Because they don’t want us to know that’s what it is. Instead it’s all about “burnout” as a consequence of “lack of self-care”.
Yes, I’m still bitter.
And still powerless.
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It’s not even wages.
Its workload. Ever increasing workload.
It’s safety.
It’s liability.
It’s endless BS charting that nobody reads but is required anyway. Charting that takes us away from patients who need our attention and care and time - who need US.
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How can you have social contact without interaction? Is just being around other people without talking to them considered social contact?