OK, so here it goes..on interview, full time night shift at nursing home, sub acute unit. Told I am RN supervisor, no assignment , just house supervisor. Little did I know, they were preparing to fire existing RNs for calling off, because existing RNs were given a double assignment (entire sub acute floor of 25, with very high acuity) ...so they think they have me bondoogled, then I am on my first shift and of course the RN called off again, so I am alone, but the DON is there. I have 2 units full of IVs, tubes, I/O, foleys, wound vacs, PICCS, O2, breathing tx, narc prns out the orifice, and 2 CNAs who know how to do nothing but interrupt me every 3 seconds of shift. 2:30 am system crashes, and DON tells me to manually print out EMAR and ETAR of 500 pages and chart manually. No possible way, shape time, with massive workload by 3am , and another 2 med passes ahead...so I suggested that going forward we have better staffing because I will not put license on line for anyone, and she threw me out of the building at 3 am.
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OK, so here it goes..on interview, full time night shift at nursing home, sub acute unit. Told I am RN supervisor, no assignment , just house supervisor. Little did I know, they were preparing to fire existing RNs for calling off, because existing RNs were given a double assignment (entire sub acute floor of 25, with very high acuity) ...so they think they have me bondoogled, then I am on my first shift and of course the RN called off again, so I am alone, but the DON is there. I have 2 units full of IVs, tubes, I/O, foleys, wound vacs, PICCS, O2, breathing tx, narc prns out the orifice, and 2 CNAs who know how to do nothing but interrupt me every 3 seconds of shift. 2:30 am system crashes, and DON tells me to manually print out EMAR and ETAR of 500 pages and chart manually. No possible way, shape time, with massive workload by 3am , and another 2 med passes ahead...so I suggested that going forward we have better staffing because I will not put license on line for anyone, and she threw me out of the building at 3 am.