Anyone ever felt like this?

[chellelynn25]

I work 3-11 shift. There are two LPNs assisgned to my unit. I'm new the other has like 20+ years of experience. I worked as an aide at this same facility before getting licensed. I feel like I am nothing but a pill pushing machine. I have two med passes a 4 and a 8. With some 6pm coumadins scattered in there. The 4pm med pass really isn't so bad. It's the 8 that kicks my butt. Getting in the narc drawer for over half of the pts may have something to do with it. I always feel rushed and leave work late just about every night b/c I have to get my charting and weekly summaries done. I feel like nothing I get nothing accomplished other than passing meds, I'm beginning to think that LTC might not be my forte, but I hate the thought of going somewhere new and starting at the bottom of the totem pole. I'm stressed out, my family life is suffering b/c of it. I come home and worry whether I charted on so and so or did I take that voice order down right. I don't sleep, I'm up at all hours of the night b/c my brain won't shut off. I get nothing accomplished during the day b/c I end up sleeping the day away b/c I have been up so late. I don't really have anyone who understands, none of my friends or family are in the healthcare profession. I simply do not know what to do.

[sasha2lady]

I work 2nd and have 30 myself plus i do my own txs, charting, summaries, skin assessments, admissions, calling the doc for everybody else most of the time and writing and processing everybody elses orders without any help (2 out of 5 are not even my pts), plus staffing bs, and med passes and now we have to chart if someone eats poorly instead of the cna's doing it on their flow sheets...and this is on a smooth night. I used to fall behind alot more than i do now til i got a routine that worked for me. I have a strange system i use for myself and ive started telling the other nurses to do their own orders from the doc. as for your hs meds..and the narcs..what are they mostly? pain pills? sleeping pills? maybe some of these narcs times can be changed or if you are giving sleeping pills to pts who may already be asleep by the time you get to them....maybe that can be changed to prn instead? both my passes are pretty heavy but i start my hs stuff at 7pm since i have an hour leeway. if you guys use a doctors book or whatever put down some ideas....it tends to work better if you are on a certain hall most of the time...and if your hs pass tends to have stuff like vitamins ..see about a time change too. might work out better.

[edwardsmi]

Believe me when i tell you i will get much better and easier, but the best thing you can do is become an RN