Nurses Relations
Published May 27, 2012
You are reading page 2 of Blame the weekend staff! It's fun!
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loveu123
102 Posts
We do rotating shifts on my unit and there is therefore no blaming on any shifts. Only a few of our nurses who have been on the unit for so many years work a strict day or night schedule. My unit is a surgical with tele unit and it is equally busy on both shifts cuz patients come out of PACU at all times.
Nurse_Wretched
50 Posts
Been there, done that...we do staff parties and all of that crap. Corporate pep rally meetings too. Eeeeeeewwwww. LOL All of that is fine and well but we need to staff correctly because it is a matter of patient care and that is why we are there! It's great to "appreciate" staff in a myriad of ways but the ultimate boost to staff morale comes from proper staffing and accusation cessation... I stick up for the other staff because they are treated unfairly and it ****** me off.
imintrouble, BSN, RN
2,406 Posts
I once worked in a LTC on nights. There was a surprise state inspection. Everything that the inspector found wrong was the night nurses fault. Of course I was long gone. I found out all the nursing deficits were my fault through the grapevine.
It's always the nurse's fault... LOL Polio, the civil wars, Pompeii, Hurricane Katrina, sucky institutional food, rectal prolapse...blame the nurses! Muahahahahahahaha!
Andy Droid
71 Posts
Not in nursing, but I used to get the same song and dance where I work ( more jobs with less people overnight & weekends)
We finally got some balance by laying out exactly what is on agenda for each shift over the span of a month (barring unforseen issues of course), the time and bodies it takes to complete each task (if everything goes right) and the number of people actually at work during these shifts.
The main lady from management was walked through the comparison chart, shown that in theory we were 4 people shy overnight and 3 shy on the weekends to complete all the tasks ( even though we usually got everything done)... AND that the day shift seemed to have 3 extra people mon - fri.
3 days later the schedule was revamped and a few day folks were moved to nights / weekends.
(one of them who was apparently the night shifts biggest critic still whines about how she hates working nights as it kills her social life...)
Bortaz, MSN, RN
2,628 Posts
Best. Poll. EVER.
JenLPN001
38 Posts
I work for a small, family owned Alzheimer's/dementia facility. We have our little fights between shifts, but nothing major. I think that even if you counted kitchen and housekeeping staff, we don't even have 50 people total. Our Administrator is also a nurse and more often than not you'll see her on the floor with the rest of us, giving meds, feeding during the meals, helping with transfers, etc. For the most part, we're all willing to help out when we can but one thing that really bugs me is hearing one of the people on my weekends say "Why don't the others help us on our weekends? They never come in when we ask, even if we beg." My answer is this... "when was the last time any of you helped out on THEIR weekend???" It's amazing how fast people disappear!
I had a job like yours, JenLPN001... I loved it there! Everyone did everything. One day I made bkfst, lunch, and dinner for 50 people because the cook had gotten into a car accident. I charted, I passed meds, I talked to clients about anything and everything. Budget cuts took my job away and I miss it so much now! At my current job I am a very good nurse but I often feel that I am going through the motions trying to please this one and that one... So much useless staff and family drama and none of it is about anything medical. It is very busy there but it isn't very interesting at all. I long for a job that I am passionate about... I would take a 20% pay cut if the right job came along. I worked alot of extra hours there because I was happy with my job... I never dreaded going to work.
How does one get their employer to understand that the staffing problems are created by upper management and their unrealistic expectations???
amoLucia
7,736 Posts
Hehe, you want to REALLY find someone to blame? Weekend NIGHT shift! hehe!!
Holiday weekend noc staff... Haha. Ya'll really know how to up the ante on that one! LOL
Yeah. I worked a double on Christmas day 2011 + a double on New Year's Day 2012 + a double on my birthday 2012 after getting snowed in and stuck at work. After working a double on my b-day I got stranded at work and walked in the snow for an hour at 12am. Haha. No buses and no taxis anywhere. Kinda' sucked. LOL
Christmas 2011 was a clusterf**k. Some staff didn't show up for work that day. We were understaffed with family members everywhere... Not good. Lots of expectations with an exhausted staff trying to fulfill them all. Awesome! If I keep on working this schedule for a while, none of the holidays will be mine this year or next year. Holiday drama is not worth the extra pay.