Anyone feeling stressed.......??

Jo Dirt · Jan 24, 2006

I suffer from the winter blues pretty bad around this time of year. I feel like I'm running in a hampster wheel.It's cold and dreary, my roof is leaking, I've got so many bills to pay... I actually ordered a vacation packet from Tahiti a couple of weeks ago...if it's any consolation I'm feeling the itch, too. I keep thinking about taking the kids, renting a beach house and spending part of the summer lounging around. Then the next part of the summer we'll spend on a dude ranch out West...oh well, at least I can dream.

dekatn · Jan 24, 2006

I feel your pain!!!!!! A nice long cruise would be soooooo nice right now!

nurse_clown · Jan 24, 2006

yep! i'm feeling it. i have two part time nursing jobs. i want to give up both and get into dog training. my one part time jobs is driving me crazy because i can't get a handle on the scheduling rules. if i don't hand in my availability, they either assign my schedule and i have to live with it or else i don't get any shifts and i have to live with that too. the acuity and patient numbers are increasing and the departments are always critisizing each other for some reason or another. why can't we all just get along??? that's all stressful because my schedule is crazy. i've double booked myself and now i'm scrambling and begging ppl to trade shifts with me. they hum and haw. meanwhile, i cover their shifts no problem.

my other part time job drives me crazy because the registered staff can't seem to act in a professional manner and psw's are telling me what the other rn's and rpn's are saying about me!!!! way not cool!!!! :angryfire i don't know why they've sucked me into their world of chaos and unhappiness. i'm not there as much as they are. i go in and do my work and have as much fun as i can. if they aren't happy, that's not my fault. but some of the stuff they are saying about me is laughable. the other night nurse asked the psw "what exactly does she do when she's here?" so the psw listed off everything that she sees me doing: "she does her paperwork, treatments, quarterly reviews, rounds, she answers bells, she sits with some of the residents, she helps me set out the briefs and cloths..." then she was interrupted and told to go back to work. the other night nurse also made a pretty serious allegation that i don't do my wound care treatments and sign for them. i'm going to confront her on that believe me!! my question is to them: how do they have time to talk about other people when there is always work to do? they spend so much time minding everyone elses business and not their own. i don't talk about them. i don't ask "what exactly do they do on their shift??" so yeah, my coworkers are driving me crazy.

normally, i try not to let the "others" bother me. i know what i do at work and i know i get the job done. i also know that the psw's trust me and i work well with them. the don is happy with me and says i'm an excellent nurse. the docs trust me and listen to my suggestions. so what my fellow registered staff has to say about me is irrelevant right now and i dare them to say it to my face (which i know they wont and i'd be shocked if they do). but for some reason both jobs are getting to me. it must be the month because i get a little bummed at this time. maybe i just don't have the energy to deal with it and i'll do nothing but my own job.

Dorito, ASN, RN · Jan 24, 2006

How about a nice trip to the Bahamas or Mexico. I hate January as well...it's cold and dark and seems to last twice as long as the other months. I find that sometimes just going to a few tanning sessions seems to make a difference in my mental attitude. It's always so nice and warm and reminds me of a day at the beach.

BLUEBIRD23 · Jan 24, 2006

For some reason this seems to happen all the time in work settings. The shifts always argue about the others not doing their job. I would like to believe that this is in all job settings and not only on medical ones. Maybe its the stress I just don't know but i know how you feel.

dekatn · Jan 24, 2006

Bluebird23, I know exactly what you mean, we have a new nurse on 3-11, great nurse, awesome personality, genuinely likes what she does and the residents, even though it gets really overwhelming at times, anyway, our 11-7 nurse has decided that she is "supernurse" and has started picking on the new one, seems the new nurse can't do anything right. Personally, I think we should take up a collection at work and send the 11-7 nurse on a loooong trip!!!!!!!

IloveSnoopy · Jan 24, 2006

Glad to hear I'm not the only one.....yeeek. I should just talk my husband into taking me away somewhere fun!!! We haven't gone on a trip for three years now.....I suppose right now isn't the best time though.....we have those lovely property taxes due next week.....uggghhh...it's always something. Thanks for sharing everyone...

hugs,

snoop'

Amethyst Veralyn · Jan 25, 2006

A few weeks ago a visitor falsely accused me of going in her mothers

room without knocking when the fact was I had. It went like this,

I knocked on the door and thought she had said, "Come in." When I

opened the door she said, "Don't come in here without knocking

my mother doesn't like it."

I said, "I did knock."

"I said, "Just a minute." This exposed her accusation as a lie.

"I thought you said, "Come in."

At this point I thought she owed me an apology but she kept

accusing me of not knocking so I told her I was sorry.

Then she accused me again.

I'm wondering if other people have had a problem with this

and how they cope with it.

military spouse · Jan 25, 2006

Boy, I sure would enjoy a nice vacation! All these stories make me glad that we recently moved and I'm no longer working in a hospital! I don't know if I can ever listen to another call light or have a pager go off. I'm loving my part-time job (different story two weeks ago :rolleyes: ). I totally understand the "it hurts to cough" and the thoughts of killing the patient before the shift ends. The drug seekers always drove me the craziest. It's like they think if they act like they are dying every 10 minutes, you have the power to increase the pain meds and/or phenergan.

jimthorp · Jan 25, 2006

I'm with ya snoopy!! Was floated off to another floor today, surprise, surprise. The RN does not really like her job but was nice and gave me the easier side as I do not know the people. When she went to lunch it was me and 49 people and all hell broke loose the minute she walked off the floor. I survived but it took me until 2 hours after shift end to finish up. She even asked me to give an IM for her. I don't really like giving them because I know they hurt, or at least normally. Every one I have given, the patient said did not hurt. Guess I have a knack of finding the precise ventrogluteal site without pain sensors.

My vote goes to anywhere that has good scuba diving. It's nice to gaze at a different world for a while. How about Cozumel? You have to deal with the pod people but if you ask the locals they can point you to places away from the tourist traps with great eats and drink for cheap.

zacarias, ASN, RN · Jan 25, 2006

I work tele and all the staff AND the patients have been sick with colds. I don't know who originally brought it in, a pt. or staff. Doesn't really matter but it makes you nervous taking care of pts. Of course I got the cold so I figure I'll be immune this round :).

Lots of CONFUSED pts. Everyone is confused. I swear that confusion is an epidemic worse than diabetes.