Just want to throw an incident out there to get some feedback on whether or not I am over reacting...
This hospital I am working at staffs 1 L&D nurse, 1 nursery nurse and 1 PP nurse on nights. Days has 3 L&D nurses and the rest of the staff the same. They have one dayshift nurse that comes in at 0530, I thought to help get the inductions ready. Here is the situation... I had one patient all night, then at 0430 primip comes in huffing and a blowing, doing great! 0500 I am trying to get IV, table, ya know, all the goodies ready for her. The day shift nurse comes in at 0500, and two inductions start rolling in the door at 0530. Prior to them getting there I had pulled all the papers, prenatal, filled out as much as I could with the info on the prenatal, started the delivery papers, etc and put them all inside a chart (not in the brackets) I had also pulled all the things for each ones IV, catheter, fluid, etc and had the rooms set and ready. SSSOOOO>>> I am kinda busy with this one that walked in in labor and the day nurse is sitting right in the middle of the nurses station and says to me...you know...you should have had these IV's spiked and primed, Pit mixed and spiked and primed and everything hanging in the room so all I had to do was go in ans start the IV." Later I found out that she had said to the PP nurse that the admission papers should have been more completely filled out with all the papers in their respective dividers. When she made the comment to me I could feel my blood start to boil. All I could say to her was "I'll do what I can" I felt like the NERVE of her, here I am trying to get things ready for this delivery and she says something like that. I told her I didn't routinely mix up meds for a pt. that wasn't here yet and I walked off. She had also said to the PP nurse "I wonder what {the director} would think...two agency nurses here all night doing nothing" (the PP nurse is also agency) I had pretty much done all I felt I could do for these patients seeing that they weren't even here yet. She routinely gets a pat on the back for being so quick in getting the inductions started. Now I know how she does it. She has the other nurses so afraid of her rath that they fill out all the papers and I mean everything on the admission down to "lungs clear to auscultation bilatarelly"!!!! before the patient even arrives! I have a real problem with that. My dileema is now Do I confront her about it now that my blood is only simmering? Also, her comments have made me not want to do a gosh darn thing before the pt gets there. SO... do I continue and do the things that I can do or do I go above and beyond and do what SHE expects? I don't have a problem doing what I am able to do but if I have someone in labor they do take precedence over an elective induction. Part of me thinks ya know, I am not gonna do s%#t for her, then the other part says, you really need this contract don't blow it suck it up and do it
PLEASE HELP
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