I am a dental nurse and I feel that our management are using us for tasks outside of our job description.
They have created these long check lists for every room, with daily tasks including cleaning skirting boards, scrubbing staff and patient toilets, wiping every surface in the entire building. They tell us that patients are priority, but have no problem forcing us to stay late to finish the list of cleaning if we don't get it all done through the day. Our days are usually around 10 hours.
We've brought it up in a work meeting and also pointed out that we are currently very understaffed and overworked, so everyone is feeling overwhelmed. No one is happy. What more can we do? It's genuinely to a ridiculous point. Other than making nurses do the cleaning, they have someone come in to vacuum 3 time per week. That's it. The management argued and tried to say “but the surgery has to be clean” as if we are saying the cleaning shouldn't be allowed. I agree it should be cleaned, just not necessarily by us.