Hi guys - I guess I just feel the need to vent a little and I'm sure you all feel the same way at times. I work on a crazy busy surgical/trauma floor in an inner city teaching hospital as a new grad for the past 3 months now. Most days it's all I can do to keep up - it wouldn't be so bad if I had decent help, but most of the assistants are so lazy and complain about doing their job. Anyhow, today I'm just feeling especially fed up and burnt out. This is such a thankless job most days and you're darned it you do, darned it you don't.
The attendings and residents round several times a day - they always seem to have questions for the nurse and want you to be available to them as an extra set of hands, etc. So I try to make surroundings known without actually rounding with them. But last night I had some doctor ask me why I was hovering around, even though every time she saw me she had some question or task for me to do. I know this seems so silly, but this has just pushed me over the edge! I'm simply trying to do my job to the best of my ability and I still get grief for it! I feel so burnt out already and barely hanging on, but since this I've been a weepy mess.
What do you guys do when the docs round? Do you run the other way, go into the patients room with them, etc? Why am I letting this bother me so much?!?!
