Lately I've been so exhausted and am having difficulty sleeping at night. Today was a busy and horrible day at work. Yesterday was worse... I had two new admits, apart from having to pass meds, doing treatments, answering phone calls, taking new orders, and being called away from the NS several times to check on Residents, oh and charting...I managed to get all my work done an hour and a half after my scheduled shift ended. So today I went back to work and went through the same things except I had only one readmit to take care of, and I had to listen to the other nurse complain about how this and that was not done right, and that I forgot to do this and that. ugh. I just need a pep talk. How do you all manage to get any sleep at night? I work days, 12 hr shifts. I've been working every other day just about. I made myself a cheat sheet, where I keep track of things I need to get done for admits and re-admits. Or taking orders, what forms need to be filled out. I kept getting called away, and ppl kept interrupting me that I guess I just forgot to fill insulin units. I got the meds and the insulin written down in the MARS, I just didn't written the units of insulin. If the evening nurse who changed shifts with me would have looked at the MAR she would have caught it and all she had to do was look at his discharge summary to find out the units needed, but I guess she didn't do it last night. Or at least it wasn't sign off. So it's my fault. I'm ready to call it a quits. If it wasn't for financial reasons, me being the only one working and supporting us, I would look for something different. How do you keep work and family life separate? When I go home I'm so stressed that I have a tough time sleeping and when I do sleep, I dream about being at work...
