Not me!

OMG. Last night at work was the worst night I've had there since I started.
From twelve midnight until five am, I was THE ONLY NURSE IN THE PLACE.
Not even a MED TECH.

OMG, I got so mad.
I called a nursing agency, but of course who's going to come out at midnight?

They overstaff the dayshift and leave nothing at night. This was the FIRST time I have ever been there without another nurse and it's going to be the LAST.

It isn't safe.
There are at LEAST sixty residents.

I told them this morning that, if they didn't get or find SOMEBODY (another nurse, be it LPN or RN) to work third shift w/me, that I WOULD NOT BE IN.

Then at 2:30 pm, this smarmy LPN called here and said I needed to make up my mind "because a no-call, no-show" wouldn't look good ON MY LICENSE!

How DARE she threaten me like that!
In the first damned place, that has nothing to do with your nursing license.
I could walk off jobs from here to eternity and it wouldn't affect my license.
But the very idea.
Instead of waiting to work with me tonight, when she already KNEW we would be short, she works today, then calls me and runs out of the bldg. before I could return her call!
As soon as I got it (on Callwave), I called work and the woman had already left, so I called her house and left a message FOR HER.

Then I called work AGAIN and told them what she had done, and they said "well, we still haven't found anybody."
They had 3 nurses on days and at least 3 med techs; then expect ME to do the whole house by myself after midnight ~ I DON'T THINK SO!
So I said, "Okay, then if and or until you all find somebody to work with me tonight, I AM DEATHLY ILL AND WILL NOT BE IN."

They don't EVEN need to think they are going to pull that stuff on me ~ not for one second.
They just recently dropped all the insurance ~ I was planning to get THAT, except now you can't even get insurance there!
Sometimes I wonder if I wouldn't be better off NOT working! HAHAHAHA!
My fiance is supposed to work this week, though, and I get my check Friday.

I am going to start looking around elsewhere if they are going to try to make me work alone; I won't do it. It isn't safe ~ not to mention fair.
I mean, putting "fairness" aside; it isn't safe for the residents.
They need at least an RN and an LPN there, around the clock, and hopefully a med tech.

They don't even need to start that stuff with me; I've been a nurse too long to take it. I WON'T.

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