Nursing is 24 hours....

[EmerNurse]

We've all heard this when we come into get report... and it's absolutely true.. to a point.

I'd be interested to hear stories from those who feel they were left with stuff to "clean up" that they feel should absolutely have been done on the previous shift.

Had a nurse once (on my own shift) got an order to change a foley around 5pm (shifts ends at 7). His comment... "I could leave that for the next shift right?" Lol told him GO CHANGE THE FOLEY!

Does anyone see one shift over the other doing this? (lol NOT looking for flames!) but more than once, I've heard the comment "XXX shift ALWAYS has to spend the first 2 hours of our shift cleaning up after YYY shift!"

Any other stories? Thoughts? When does nursing stop being 24 hours and start being just laziness?

[eccentricRN]

i think the only thing that this thread teaches us is that every shift is darned sure they are the most worked, and most put-upon. and that every other shift is less conscientious, and more demanding, lol.

i'm a night-shifter, and have found that the "24 hour day" seems to end with our shift...if anything is left over for days, it turns into a huge "but days does everything!!" whine. and evenings complains that days complained about their load, and left over a ton of stuff for them....which in turn gets left over for nights.

bingo, every shift is guilty or innocent!

exactly what i was trying to say!!!