Attitude Problem

Hi,

Yea, I'm writing mostly because I'm POed right now. I have been working in a dialysis clinic for the past year while I completed my fourth and final year of nursing school. I just graduated, passed the boards and got a great job in an ICU :) But the job doesn't start until Sept. so I've been perdiem at the dialysis clinic as a tech and will be until Sept. (By the time I would be done with training to work at the clinic as a nurse, it would be time for me to leave). It's been hard to work as a tech even though I'm an RN!

So to get to the point.. over the past year I have very much been turned off by the nurses I work with. Our standard assignments are 3 patients per tech/nurse. However, the night nurse likes to forgoe any assignments and just "take them as they come." This often means that I'll put on/take off 4 or 5 while the nurse does other nursely duties (and chats and eats, etc.) Am I wrong to feel that I should not have to take care of more than 3 patients or is it really the tech's job to do as much patient care as they can so the nurse is free to do.. um... paperwork?

And it really bugs me when all the blood pressures are going off and the nurses completely ignore them and I and the other techs have to run around the room like crazy while they sit there and print up a medication report. Or when as soon as i walk in the door the nurse says "oh good you can have my assignment, bye."

we have this new nurse that is a new RN (associates) training. she hasn't been an RN for more than 2 months and already she has caught this disease. I just feel like these nurses are avoiding the essence of what they do: patient care. They would rather sit around and do paperwork that touch a patient. I had a BP going off for 15 minutes the other day before I got to it.. found the patients BP to be 70/40. The nurse stood by and let it beep for 15 minutes. If this patient had coded it would have been because of the nurse's irresponsibility.

Has anyone else seen this trend in dialysis? It really makes me feel like crap and these nurses.. if anything.. have taught me how NOT to treat techs/cna's/etc.

sorry for the rant!