Here's the thing.. I have been working at this job for just over a year. Recently, I feel like I have a bullseye target on my back. I have been moved to 3 different units in the last 3 months. The last move has been the worst of them. This unit is usually the last stop for any nurses assigned. They dont last more than a couple of months before they are either fired or willingly resign. I have already felt the heat everyday that I have been on this unit. (It's not really a hard unit, it's just where all they patients with "Those family members" always end up being assigned). So if they complain coz their loved one didn't get a banana on their tray, it's a major emergency. If spare socks are down in laundry and havent been brought up when the family visits, its an emergency and life on the unit has to stop until this is resolved. ( I am not kidding here. The DON calls up and tells the nurse and CNAs to drop everything they are doing to go find the socks)
Ofcourse this is a problem coz like I said, all the family members on this unit are cut from the same cloth. So while everyone is down in laundry looking for socks, another family member will inevitably come to visit and complain why the nurse was not at the desk at all times to answer her questions.
I usually don't really mind going to work, but lately, I have been dreading every single day.
I have some applications out but as everyone knows, jobs are hard to come by lately. I guess I just do not want to hold on too long that they get a chance to fire me, but I don't want to leave without getting another job.
I just needed to get that out of my chest. LOL. Maybe now that it's out there in the universe, I will start getting some call backs from all the apps I have put in.
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Here's the thing.. I have been working at this job for just over a year. Recently, I feel like I have a bullseye target on my back. I have been moved to 3 different units in the last 3 months. The last move has been the worst of them. This unit is usually the last stop for any nurses assigned. They dont last more than a couple of months before they are either fired or willingly resign. I have already felt the heat everyday that I have been on this unit. (It's not really a hard unit, it's just where all they patients with "Those family members" always end up being assigned). So if they complain coz their loved one didn't get a banana on their tray, it's a major emergency. If spare socks are down in laundry and havent been brought up when the family visits, its an emergency and life on the unit has to stop until this is resolved. ( I am not kidding here. The DON calls up and tells the nurse and CNAs to drop everything they are doing to go find the socks)
Ofcourse this is a problem coz like I said, all the family members on this unit are cut from the same cloth. So while everyone is down in laundry looking for socks, another family member will inevitably come to visit and complain why the nurse was not at the desk at all times to answer her questions.
I usually don't really mind going to work, but lately, I have been dreading every single day.
I have some applications out but as everyone knows, jobs are hard to come by lately. I guess I just do not want to hold on too long that they get a chance to fire me, but I don't want to leave without getting another job.
I just needed to get that out of my chest. LOL. Maybe now that it's out there in the universe, I will start getting some call backs from all the apps I have put in.