Specialties Ob/Gyn
Published Oct 15, 2003
mother/babyRN, RN
3 Articles; 1,587 Posts
Just for fun to those of you who can certainly relate...
One Good Night!
Sanity and lightening speed
are precious commodities indeed.
Delivery suite abounds with noise,
AND little girls, AND little boys,
Staffing is in disarray,
and spiraling downward
night to day.
Those remaining try their best,
but staffing is a nightly test.
Supplies, at best, are out of sight,
(as WE discover, night to night)
How much more can one nurse do,
already saddled with the work of two?
All my nights run into days,
less rare sleep; fatiguing haze.
Lately it's been hard to know
if days will come so I can go.
I'm tired of this crazy pace
and fairly sick of the no win race-
I REALLY want to be a nurse,
but I think delivery might kill me first...
My health is shot; my spirit too,
paralleling staffing, ooooo.........
I see no anectdote in sight,
and all I want is ONE GOOD NIGHT!
written on a VERY busy CRAZY night shift
October 22, 1996
by: Martha Crownishield O'Brien RN
acuteobrn
231 Posts
Sounds like my last week!!!!! To say the least the Full moon myth is very true....
Ahh, but I am off tonight...
Very nice, I enjoyed it thanks for the post!~
Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN
2 Articles; 3,563 Posts
I have never worked LD, but I have worked many nights!
Great poem, thanks for sharing it!