Someone please remind me why in the h*** I am doing this! I ran my butt off for 8 hours straight in the ER. No break, no sitting, hardley any charting. I had everthing today from the ICU pt I had roll through the door seizing with a creatinine of 9.3 in CT with her for an hour (gave her enough drugs to stop an elephant from breathing!) to the 80ish lady with the blood sugar of 13. And they stuck some poor nursing student with me, I felt bad but there was no way I could teach and do all my work today. I had barely reached a point where all my patients were stable and all important items finished. My charge nurse saw me stressed and had me pass off my pt's to two other RN's and take a lunch. No prob, great I thought! Took my lunch, got caffeine and food and was ready to go. I get back and one of the nurses I had passed off to reemed me for leaving the room a mess! ???? All I asked her to do when I left was keep the pt stable and I'll do the rest when I get back. But then she started accusing me of giving poor nursing care and I should be ashamed of myself! She tried to tell me I left the patient laying in her own feces long enough to let it dry??? I had cleaned up the lady's poo twice, not to mention the fact that this is the ER and her blood sugar of 13 was slightly higher on my priority list than her poop. Then she started ripping into me in the pt's room and "how would I feel if that were my mother". I got my charge nurse and we went into another room and she lit into me again. Where does she get off? I finally told her if she wanted to write it up she was free to do so and I left. My charge nurse told me later that I was in the right and she shouldn't have gone off on me like that. I have already left a message with my manager about this.
I am a pretty easy going person and easy to get along with I think. Two of the docs saw me upset and told me they would have me as a nurse for their patients any day. That made me feel a little better. If I hadn't been so stressed I don't think it would have upset me as bad. I think I need to buy a puching bag for days like this!!
Some one please remind me why I am a nurse. I felt at the end of my rope today and then this chick comes along!!!
Ok, I feel better after venting. Thanks all for letting me vent here! I have a couple of days off now, thank goodness!
