Is anybody out there?

[frann]

I don't know where to begin. I've been in IR for 1 1/2 years, and its been great, until recently. Its been horrible. Too many patients, not enough nurses or techs. Pts having horrible wait times. One port waited 4 hours to get back to the room for procedure. I'm constantly appoligizing for the wait times. Fri was just horrible. I was in a case from 1030 until 1630. no break no one could relieve us. no one got lunches. this case should have only lasted 1-2 hrs. case didn't actually start until 1130. I'm constantly being pulled this way and that way. We have a new doc-that's why fri's case lasted sooooooooo long. I don't know how much more I can take, and I only work part time. I don't know how the full timeers do it. They haven't been closing up until 7 ish most nights and getting called in at night.

We have way too many patients scheduled for the amount of staff we have.

Thanks for letting me unload. I have to go to work tomorrow:o

[renerian, BSN, RN]

Dang that sounds like a horrible thing. I like you, would not wait four hours to go back to my room........very sad. Is there something else you would like to try?

renerian

[lisaloulou]

Poor patient and poor nurse having to go through a procedure that long. Any chance the new doc will pick up speed??? we hope!

Im starting to think that IR all over is in a crisis........

[razzmataz]

Been there, done that. I worked radiology for less than a year. I knew very quickly why they were so anxious for me to accept the position. We had only 3 rns and one was constantly off on fmla, which she abused and got by with d/t lax management in the dept. Anyway, I can so relate to frann's dilemma. I started as pt also, but rarely worked less than a 40+ hr week. I finally gave it up. I'm now prn, and loving it. (At another facility).