Frustrated

[tolerantgirl]

I was wondering if other nurses are also eperiencing hospital changes that are driving them crazy and making it difficult for them to do their job. At the hospital I work at, we are not allowed to keep needles, iv catheters, and saline flushes in our rooms. We even have cabinets in our rooms, but we are not allowed to keep these items in the cabinets as well. So we end up carrying these items in our pockets. It seems like a waste of time and we end up spending a lot of time looking for these supplies. I don't understand why there are not locks on the cabinet doors in the room so we can stock those items when needed. There is nothing like having to restart an IV to give a stat medication and not have a flush or iv catheter. I just want to pull my hair out sometimes. Not to mention the petty junior high stuff that takes place. Why are nurses so catty?

[Up2nogood RN, RN]

I didn't mean to suggest that doing things as your facility does is dangerous or inappropriate in any way; just that it's certainly not a universal practice, and one should not feel particularly put upon or mistreated if one doesn't have that option.

Oh I didn't take it the wrong way. I know most hospitals don't make it easy for nurses to do their jobs effectively. Just the other night we had to go bum CPOx's because we had so many intrathecal post ops and the RT wouldn't bring us any more because we were already using our 'allotted' amount of machines. Grrr. Serious safety issue in my opinion, I had to keep 2 pt's hooked up to crummy dynamaps for a monitor. Yea the CN called the RT's manager as well as our NM.