Last night, I was reading postings about rude families. I had just had an episode with a 15 yr old patient that had been in a gang-related shooting. He was cussing me out, blaming me for everything that was wrong, threatening to leave. We had security and house supervisor on the floor as I called the P.A. on call to get discharge orders, then called mom to give her discharge instructions. I discharged that lovely child at 1:00a.m. to his uncle. As I was reading about the rude families, a co-worker said I should share my story. So there ya go.
Anyway, I work the "clean" pediatric floor at a hospital in Oklahoma. "Clean" means anything noninfectious - primarily peds oncology, cardiology, surgery. My love is peds oncology. I'm here because I feel and have been told I make a difference in the lives of families going through life-shattering experiences. I have been at this job long enough that it is no longer about the money. My base pay is higher than the PRN nurses make (the ones who get no benefits, but instead get a flat rate of pay supposedly higher than the average nurse) and I experience enough ongoing burnout that no amount of incentive pay would get me to work an extra shift. I've told them I would work for extra PTO, but they say that is not workable. So I only put in my 36 hrs and try not to laugh at them when they call for me to work extra. I once came home from working a night shift and they called me to work at 8:30a.m. I politely refused and they called back 12 hrs later with the same request. I laughed and said, "No, but I'll take PTO for the hours I can't work tonight." They hung up on me. I was later told that it was the house supervisor I was rude to. I told that person I didn't know it was the house supervisor, and she hung up on me.
So you can see, I have a lot to vent. I'll try to not always be this wordy.
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