Nurses week is a disgrace to our profession. We are expendable and looked down as merely production bodies easily replaceable as necessary. Look at our salaries they are pathetic. Years of schooling and career experience and treated like a used doormat. Sales are treated like golden children but cause the most headache because they have no idea the real downstream impact of what is being sold which we know is mostly lies but get the trips, large bonuses and executive handshakes. This is the final straw for me. Elevance doesn’t deserve my loyalty and decades of knowledge and expertise.
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All of you being cut on 6/26 should have no problem getting a higher paid position elsewhere.
Our SVP in G&A thanked all nurses in our all associates call yesterday while trying to cut us behind the scenes. I find it so ironic that not one associate had sent a question to be answered in this meeting. No one cares about this place. Everyone is going to let it tank. She is such a hypocrite and fake. 6/26 is coming
Again, if you think you are being you are being underpaid at Anthem, then find a job that pays what you are worth. I get tired of people bi--hing about low pay and then do nothing about it.
You can always go back and work in the hospital setting... but you prob dont want to. Due to hours and holidays and germs and stress and whatever. You chose Anthem and lower pay to get away from all that probably? At least the anthem nurses i know did.
Not a nurse, just here to say I appreciate you all. Im sorry our company didnt do more to make you feel seen or cared about. Incredibly shameful.
Our SVP sent an email wishing nurses a happy nurses week while looking to lay off nurses. That’s the company we work for unfortunately.
I am a nurse and I respectfully ask that you not put all nurses into this negotiate light. I don't look at myself as any better than anyone else because I am a person first...and being a nurse is what I do for living but it does not define me. Nurses can not be successful without supporting team...and supporting team cannot be successful without nurses. We are all important...regardless of our education or title.
Well if nurses are in such high demand how come you don’t go and work at another company for more money. If EH pays do cr-ppy then go to another company.
cp+1jtmcveez This is for Elevance Nurse not travel nurse pay. This post is about Nurses who work specifically for Elevance.
Idk what you’re talking about being under paid as a nurse. My sister is does travel nursing and makes more than some family medicine docs.
uhm.....I think my early posts about nurses being over-rated caused some feeling to be hurt. To bad, get over it.
Not all nurses “save lives”. The self-importance is astounding. My last few ER nurse interactions have been nightmare. I actually think I might have been ki-led as they gave me the antibiotic I was allergic too. Good thing the doc came in and stopped it.
Response to poster who said - "Nurses week is over-rated. Go to a hospital and watch how they kiss the butts of the nurses during that one week. What about all the other members that work there?
If you actually worked in a hospital you would know it has been "Hospital Week" for a long time - used to have weeks for Pharmacy, RT's, Nurses, MD' etc.
Next time you make a snarky comment about nurses being overrated - you might want to think who actually shows up to save your life - disrespectful.
Nurses week is over-rated. Go to a hospital and watch how they kiss the butts of the nurses during that one week. What about all the other members that work there? Radiology techs, cleaning teams, administrative folks, transportors, Food staff....these are not front-line patient facing so they are pushed to the back.
I mean, it's not like they are doctors or something.....
I have years of experience, got hired here and got a SCORECARD on my work, my quality, the number of calls I made, the number of new members I enrolled since they only count once, the time I took to document it all and then got scolded, I mean counseled, I mean treated like I was a factory worker, by someone who has significantly less clinical experience than myself and some of my peers combined. I understand metrics are needed, but this level of micromanagement never happened to me when I was in the hospital saving lives, but here - all day everyday.
Had some recent experiences with hospitalizations and found the nurses making it about them. Bi--hing aboutvthier problems when I'm just hoping my husband survives. Sorry when you find out your husband has a serious illness, the last thing I need is his nurse making it about herself. Since COVID nurses started trying to glorify themselves. The leaders in healthcare don't give a cr-p about anyone who works for them, please stop making it about you. Every experience now seemscto be nurses making it know how much their life su-ks, seems like they forget how to do their jobs
Why don’t they have analyst week, or actuary week or compliance person week. Sorry why do you have to have a special week. You choose to be a nurse and now everyone has to kiss your a-s for a week?
We see you. Your fellow employees, nurses and not, see you. Nurses are 99% the healthcare experience. Don't let this org or anyone else make you feel less than you are. You are someone to celebrate during any week. Stay strong and know that you are valued beyond what the org shows. <3
They point out nurses week but in same sentence say it is everyone. Which it is, everyone has a job, but the way nurses are lumped into “team” sure takes away any recognition for nurses, dime a dozen I guess.
I am sorry thanks to all the nurses. We appreciate you!