Changeover- Worst Night of my life (vent long)!!!!

Mermaid,

I actually had a nurse recruiter say this to me last week. No kidding. She was the one that was impressed with my resume, skills, education, certifications and references. She walked my resume to the Nurse manager who was the one that turned me down because "LPN in sub-acute care is not real nursing. She is only a new grad RN" That is a direct quote. This was not a Boston teaching hospital either. It was a local community hospital desperate for nurses.

I have other anecdotal stories along the same lines but this one was striking in its stupidity.

Every now and then our local hospital has a Bridges Program. They try to get nurses who work in other parts of the business come to the hospital. ONLY the nurses who work on the sub acute floor have ever made it to the hospital.
I was a visitor in an ICU...arrived in my scrubs. The nurse there offered me a job. I said.."Oh no..I work sub acute, I couldn't do what you do.' She laughed and told me that she had tried to work on a sub acute floor but it was too hard....too many patients..one lady is coding and a family is complaining that mom didn't get her hair done. And then she told me all the other nurses laughed at her because she couldn't remember all the different places there were to document this or that.
People are learning more and more every day what we do in LTC...

OHHH do I hate changeovers! They are always a mess. One of our night nurses usually comes in and starts on them the 27th of each month and what I do to help her is separate them all and put them in order by hall and room number for her before she comes in (if Im there when they arrive) I make all new blood sugar sheets for her also and put them with the appropriate mar. I paperclip each persons mar to keep them all straight. If I get a chance I work on what I can and then she picks up. This past time I didnt get to really help her do them other than separating them. We had tons of admissions on my shift etc etc. So I was good to get them separated for her. Then if I work the last day of the month I take off the old mars, staple them in order and then put on the new ones so that whoever comes in on third has one less thing to worry about with it. Im the only one that bothers to try and help out with this which gets frustrating but if it were me Id want some help too.