Is Competition Among Co-Workers a Good Thing?

Dear Ritika:

In reference to your article I had a thought.

Nursing, my profession, is in the process of solving the problem of hostility in the workplace. Psychiatric Nurses were among the first ones to be trained in this matter for obvious reasons. Until one day when we find ourselves working among very difficult co-workers.

The economy of Human Resources is as incomplete as the economy of Capitalism. They are both incomplete in the sense that: it addresses humans as a specific force. Whereas, humans have the need to realize the totality of forces.

What do I mean by this?

Managers that would start to treat human resources as an expense instead of as a generator of evolution inside the companies. Would use formulas to wrench every single minute out of any procedure. As a result, the first shortcut that an individual will take will be, inevitably, bedside manners, nobody pays for that, in this culture.

Workers become machinery and needless to say,cold, unhappy, desperate people.

We get fulfillment when we can realize the value of nourishment. If this core value in our careers is eliminated from the equation, the erosion of our core as a human being, equals turnover.

I submit to you the theory of your Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who says: the key to every man's success is to start with a pure heart and a pure mind. Production will be satisfied with skill in action but the remainder of efficiency and efficacy will be time to speak to our patients and their support system creation and education.

To make them exceedingly happy and comfortable.

To be aware about the importance of our Nursing Process in the executive state of mind and out of the computer system, another piece of paper work to comply with in order to get the work done and be paid for.

My perspective goes beyond having been a nurse for more than a decade, my holistic perspective came into completeness when I became a very sick patient, less than a year ago.

Looking back I could have died so many a hospitalizations ago.

In such a cold, cold place and out of the eighty nurses and medical personnel that treated me I can sadly say that I only remember two nurses that carried me to a place of hope. Unique to me was their expensive bliss. One, that would constantly checked on me. Hospital-to-hospital. The second and most humanly one, a CNA who would sing to me the blues brushing my hair while laying down in bed unconscious.

Thank you.

Laura Veale R.N. of TX 7:42PM May 19, 2012