I got floated to another unit last night. I am not familiar with their type of patients and I am not chemo certified. At one point, while already drowning and getting an admission (which gave me 6 patients while all other nurses on the floor had only 5) a patient came out into the hallway vomiting everywhere. I did not know what was wrong with her, but I helped her back to bed and called her nurse. The nurse told me to give her something and hung up. I called back and asked what the patient was in for and what can she have. She said she was busy and hung up on me again. I looked up the patients chart (even though I had NO TIME FOR THIS), she had a bowel obstruction and she had already maxed out her nausea meds and it was 6 hours too early to have anymore. I called the nurse and told her it was too soon. She told me to give it anyway and chart it as "condition warrants". I was not comfortable with that and told her so, but she hung up again. I called the Charge Nurse who told me to call the Dr, I explained that I had my admission and still was very behind with all of my own patients. I had 2 patients getting blood and i getting platelets. She screamed at me told me to call the dr. So I did. I tried to answer the Doctors questions the best I could with the chart in front of me, he ordered an NG tube. I wrote the order, called the nurse and told her she would need to do it I did not have time. I later found out that she was just giving her routine meds, so she was not busy with anything emergent.
Anyway I got an email this morning that the Charge Nurse from that floor emailed my boss to say I was not being a team player and that I refused to put in the NG tube. I ended up staying an hour late trying to get MY OWN patient stuff done. That other nurse left on time. I literally spent an hour dealing with this other patient which was NOT MINE. I feel like I did as much as I could and never even got a thank you from the rude nurse I was helping. I asked to meet with my manager to tell her how I was treated on that floor and the mess I was left. I have also told her I will not under any circumstances go back to that floor.
I really felt like they dumped the worst assignment on me to begin with. Should one nurse have all the patients getting blood and platelets? And then get the first admission? It was hard enough having to find where they keep everything and look up every single med since there were a lot I was not familiar with.
