Does your unit have nurses going around with the checks board, looking through patient's belongings, doing beverage and snack breaks and handing out meal trays? Our unit has nurses running around doing all of this stuff because of staffing issues. Just wondering how many psych units out there function this way......trying to get all charting and meds done in between, there's barely any time to talk to the patients. Typically we have 1 MHC on duty, and when they are on break or monitoring visitors, nurses are covering the check board etc. it's not that I mind once in a while, however it's becoming a steady diet and I feel like a glorified waitress!
