I work in a PEDS ER as a Paramedic. Going to school to apply to nursing at this time. This is my issue:
im approaching 12 weeks employment. And I love my job, there's just one problem; I feel like I'm constantly underappreciated and everyone's little toy. All the nurses can be sitting on their phones or something and they're like do vitals on this patients. Do this. Do that. I need this. I need that. When I need a little help too you know. Also I wipe down the beds before and after patients and it really aggravates me when I'm busy with patients in the triage area and i walk back and find dirty rooms. WHAT WERE YOU DOING? Sometimes I just feel like I'm constantly being pulled. They won't do their own vitals. Or even wipe down a bed or table. They won't EVER do crutches or splints. I enjoy my job but sometimes I get extremely overwhelmed when all these nurses are sending me to do things while they're sitting down. Mean while, I barely sit, if I'm drinking water it never fails for someone to tell me to do something. They all get to eat their lunch at a reasonable time and here I am waiting till 2:30 or so to eat because I'm just too busy to break away. It's really aggravating me. It makes me think, you're a nurse, but you can't do these small things? Or is it that they think they are above taking vitals or doing splints. They also refer to me as a nurses aid, when I am a PARAMEDIC. I have a license. I went to school for this. How do I handle all of this?
