Confused Company Nurse

[meemaos]

Hi guise! I'm a newly hired company nurse for 3 different branches of this company with plantilla of no more than 150. This is my first job as a nurse and I had a previous jobs not related to nursing so I kinda suck at remembering some things that my employees are asking me. To add, I'm in a very independent role since I don't have a company doctor with me to supervise everyone. I'm worried that my immediate supervisor (she's a HR Supervisor) might kick me out whenever she felt I'm not suited for the job. For instances, I had a patient who came in to my clinic because of dizziness and numbness of his extremities. He has a known history of HPN and when I checked his VS it was only 140-130/90 which left me to not give him Catapres and guessed that his dizziness were not related to his HPN. I asked about his Potassium and he said that he had all work ups done and it was all negative. Also, he was diagnosed with Meniere's but he consulted an ENT doctor for second opinion and he was told everything was fine with his ears. Since he's still dizzy, I thought of giving him meclozine but he told me he took Serc 2 hours ago. I just felt down because I had to discharge him outta my clinic without even performing any nursing intervention or anything. I'm also pressured because I had the power to let my employees go undertime due to sickness. Mostly, they're asking if they could go home because of LBM and epigastric pain. And when I check their VS everything was in normal. BP of 110/70; Temp of 36.8; Pulse of 72. Sometimes I dunno if they're just acting ill or what. How would I know if it's true or not? PS every employee was required to put a lot of make up so I can't really tell if there's pallor. I felt like I had to do something for everyone and I feel wasted whenever I felt what I did is not enough even I had given everything I know that could help.

[fernanie]

Hi sir. I found your statement very well-said. Can I ask a question to you? I am a newly hired company nurse, and after a month, what i am repetitively doing is taking blood pressures of employees who come to me in my office. Then, the rest of the day is empty. I did health history and assessment to every client and also making leaflets for health awareness stuff, posting about risks of possible diseases that can be prevented such as hypertension and diabetes. In times I do not have things to do, I help my co-workers from a different department with their clerking jobs. Sir, please help me what other tasks I should do to make my job productive. The company I am working is responsible for the electricity lines, telephone and network installations in the city. Accidents also rarely happen. I am bored and I fell that my job is so light compared to the workers in the admin office who are busy in their computer encoding and doing other stuffs for the company. All responses are very much appreciated. Thank you.