Ok I know there have been like 1,000 threads on this topic.... But... I'm just so frustrated at work. Every single day 3rd shift is out the door at 7:05am... however no one from first shift ever leaves until after 7:30pm.. usually 7:45pm... We are always there.. tying up loose ends.. making sure our patients are squared away for when 3rd shift arrives...
But yet... I walk out of report (we tape report) at 7:05 this morning and the 3rd shift nurse hands me 6 labels for blood draws that were due at 6:30 and tells me that this patient needs pain meds... and this patient needs nausea meds..... and then I go down to see a different pt and their IV is BEYOND infiltrated!!!
Not a great way to start my shift.... However this evening as they dilly dally in report I medicate my patients at 7:20pm.... and suction a pt that isn't even mine at 7:40pm until they come strolling out of report.. Heaven forbid they do anything if it is after 7:00am... We come out of report every day to beeping IVs.... Bed alarms blaring... call light ringing off the hook...
All I'm saying is... If my patient needs to be medicated, or loses an IV at end of shift... I stay and do it while the next nurse is getting things ready for their shift. They never return the favor! I get sick of it! I'm not even going to go into the fact that I had 2 admissions at 1800. I make sure everything that I can possible do is done before the next shift is out of report. And they still find something to complain about!
I'm not trying to start another shift vs. shift war because it isn't about that... it is about lazy coworkers who don't give a crap about their patients or their fellow coworkers:angryfire