I worked night shift last night. I got a rotten assignment. I had 2 confused patients (one who had fallen at home but no one bothered to put her on a bed alarm) someone found her with her iv's pulled out, another huy who asked me for suctioning 3x in the first hour i was there, and a pt who was wheezy and having trouble breathing. the fourth had some major gtts running.
No aide on floor.
I dealt with them all simultaneously it seemed. I called the MD about the man who was having trouble breathing, who didnt want his neb, called RT. RT came. then my charge nurse came up to me and said (hour 3) that I was charting the sats in the wrong spots. Actually, in my haste, I double charted them in the sat column and the fio2 column. big deal, I had people on their lights, breathing diff, and about to fall out of bed.
Then RT came to me and said that he had told me charge nurse that (about the charting) I said, it would have been nice to tell me, not my charge nurse, i have been busy. He said my chg had a right to know, "as its a legal document". I said its pretty tacky to tell my charge nurse instead of me. He said, "if your ego is so easily bruised, you should not be working here" (!!!!!)
I told my chg nurse about that. Later my chg said this RT didnt chart a neb he gave...
I was very upset!! I worked so hard, and I get that!!! Or is my "ego easliy bruised" and maybe I need to get a less stressful job?? Please advise!!
