Another vent.

[Do-over]

I just need to vent, but I feel silly for even being p!$$ed about the actual situation. Because I know me, and I know my worth.

So I will just say this:

I am a hard-worker, I like to be busy because I am not someone that can sit still for very long. I am usually still in my rooms at 0700. DO NOT act like I am delegating toileting because I don't feel like doing it myself. I DO NOT sit around all night. I have worked as a nurse aide, I regularly toilet and bathe, and usually ask the aides to get me when THEY bathe patients so I can look at them and assist.

whew, I do feel a little better. Thanks.

At least I feel like the folks I regularly work with (including the aides) know this about me. The rest can just shove-off.

[MomRN0913]

and may I add, it is OK to sit down and have a aide do something that is within their scope of practice. If you were on your butt for a few hours doing it, not so nice. But if you, yourself have been running around for a few hours, not gettign to sit or pee, it's OK to park your butt down and have that aide get the med from pharmacy or take vitals or turn the patient.

[brandy1017, ASN, RN]

I'm sorry for what you went through. I hope you were not permanently injured. I hope you are pain free. How scary and painful.

I've been a nurse for close to twenty years and in that time I've witnessed freak accidents like you have been through and seen young and old nurses and CNA's injured, even permanently disabled on the job! It is truly a scary place to be working among the walking wounded and knowing it could happen to you, there but for the grace of God!

We lack the lifting equipment we badly need and are promised it, but nothing changes. I refuse to get patients out of bed if I have any question about there ability to walk. I remember a 500 pound patient demanding to get up to the Brp who came in for falling. I'm sorry but there's no way I'm going to take the chance of getting her up and becoming permanently injured! One time we got a 400+ patient up who fell onto the CNA and she fell backwards into the bed with this patient on top of her, who had a huge abdomen and we had to pull the patient off her. The CNA ended up with a broken cocyx but thank God was not permanently injured.

This is a dangerous job and it should be a federal law that hospitals provide a no lift environment with the equipment we need to do our job. Blue collar workers have more protection and equipment to lift and do their job then we do, alot of good being educated and a so called professional does for us nurses!

That said the truth is even if we had adequate lift equipment, freak accidents can and do happen. We have to try to protect ourselves as best we can and ask God and our guardian angel to keep us and our patients safe.