Last may, i took a new job in my facility to open up a new unit. We were promised wonderful staffing, good nurse-patient ratio and only chf patients. We were all handpicked by the new manager who i respected deeply. Well instead of having a 26 bed unit, were forced to care for 38 patients with only minimal staffing. My manager did her best she went to bat for us consistently, but the idiots that run the damn place have no idea what safe staffing is. On night shift we could have anywhere from 10-15 patients a piece. Most are med-surg overflow,only 10% might be chf.
I was originally picked to be head charge nurse and was told i would have a small assignment of maximum four patients, but take care of the patients going bad plus take care of the charge duties, calling doctors, making the doctors lists doing all admissions and other charge paper work for the daytime charge.
Well nothing promised was given, other then i still have all my other duties plus taking care of 10-15 patients on nights. To make matters worse, i'm the only nurse with at least 1 year experience(most of the nurses are new grads from last june)
Last night we had two codes, one made it, one didn't and two people were sent to ccu, of course i ended doing it all. To top it off the day time charge nurse was ticked because i was not ready to give her report at 630am( i was dealing with the family of the patient who died) and the nurse is per diem, works only one day month with 1 year experience.
Last week my manager also resigned, she can't take it anymore and has to leave this facility, i told her i'm right behind her.
Thankyou, needed to vent