MediCenter Kenai and Soldotna nurse satisfaction results
Hello Alaskan’s,
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Are any Internet bloggers reading this article today? Many bloggers read other bloggers and in healthcare, it’s no different.
This past week, we came across a blog of a blog on another blog (did I lose you?) originating from LeeAnn Thieman called “nurse job satisfaction higher-nurse retention needs attention”.
While the article had merit, it’s the large following of comment from the multiple other blogs that drew our attention.
Take a look at the article:
https://www.leannthieman.com/blog/nurse-job-satisfaction-higher-nurse-retention-needs-attention/?goback=%2Egmp_4410640%2Egde_4410640_member_225082860
While nurses are a major part of our healthcare system, medical assistants, front office, billing staff are also supporting those hard working nurses. We like to include them into our conversation but we understand many of the blogs spoke mainly to nurses.
The major discussion formed from a survey completed with 969 nurses had results that 76% were satisfied or very satisfied in their job in caring for the sick and 5% of the nursed were extremely dissatisfied.
What the statistics found was that out of the 5%, a large portion were the newer nurses from ages 25-34.
The feedback the blogs spoke mainly to these 3 key items:
- Many providers spoke to the extreme power a good team can influence better patient care.
- Those nurses who had put time into their career felt greater satisfaction.
- A larger range of participants would most likely have changes or influences the numbers.
It can take time for individuals to find a career that combine their passion with an equal degree of income. The impressions from the bloggers was that those who were dissatisfied came from the fact the newer nurses were not making what they felt they were valued.
This was one of the two main points that struck many readers was not healthcare centered but individual centered: what is the real value we bring to our career and are we undervalued or do we overvalue ourselves?
The second point being sometimes those who feel undervalued, also undervalue others without knowing.
At MediCenter, our entire staff is running at an urgent care mixed with a multispecialty family practice pace. We like to share in the success of the team and remove the “I” statements. The success we live with is mainly due to the success of the entire clinic. Healthcare has the same stress that every other career provides like long hours, continuous training, humbling experiences, success, those crazy bosses, failure, and the list grows.
A few strong points made by the mass of bloggers was that “we could use more is that when we think we are so valued, we need to take the time to look around and see if we are undervaluing others who are part of our team”.
What are your thoughts Alaskans?