Done with LTC, or maybe just this facility but it is making me sick. Mentally and physically sick. I have so much internal anger... and I am never able to express it at work, so it gets vented out on my poor family.
Our facility is WAY WAY overbudget for staffing. Mostly because they were so understaffed that they kept hiring agency to fill in the gaps (which costs more, of course).
Now their new cost-saving policy is that if somebody calls in sick, you just deal. Other people pick up the slack. Nobody is allowed overtime, and you can forget about picking up those extra non-staffed shifts.
This sounds like a good idea in theory, but not in practice. Today, my fellow nurse had to fill a lower, yet absolutely essential position, so I was the sole nurse for almost 60 patients. And we had 2 admits. In fact, I was so busy that 1 of the admits arrived, and I was not even notified (somebody else must have signed with the EMS). At the end of my shift, the night nurse said that the patient was in their bed... I was certain they had not arrived yet, since I did not know. Turns out, I walked down the hall, and there they were! Now, how is that safe nursing care?
I am so exhausted. I cant even talk about my day with my husband when I come home, because the expletives and cursing are not appropriate in front of my children.
