A Safer Work Place

Management has said that if we are injured on the job, we will be disciplined. I am not making this up. This is not a joke. Their reasoning is that if we are injured, then it must be because we didn't follow the safety protocol. Not following protocol is grounds for discipline.

The most recent nurse who was injured slipped in some urine, fell and suffered a concussion. (Who knew pee was so dangerous?) The nurse before that got her fingers caught in a door during a code blue. (People do nothing but rush, rush, rush during codes.) Before that a tiny nurse was walking a big patient who fell. They both landed on the floor and were injured. (She should have known to step out of the way, she was later told.)

The nerve of these nurses to injure themselves. Forget disciplining them, they should be criminally prosecuted. The only way these kind of injuries are going to stop is to make an example of people. On second thought, that's not enough. The three strikes law should apply to people injured on the job. Or, better yet, how about public hangings? That should get nurses attention to make them stop injuring themselves. Something, anything, no matter how stupid, must be done about this problem.