As of today, I am temporarily the only nurse available in the clinic where I work for three providers, which altogether see over 100 pts. per day. The two Nurse Practitioners see on average about 24 each per day, and the MD sometimes sees over 50.
One nurse just lost her father yesterday and the other is out for the duration of her first trimester of pregnancy, so about another month.
I am still new and have not had to work the whole clinic by myself, but if the supervisor can't bring in a nurse from another clinic there is a possibility I will have to do so. I don't feel this is safe at all. I don't feel it is safe for the patients and definitely not for me or my license. I was thrown out on my own on day three and have been there for only five weeks.
So my question is, what would you fellow clinic nurses do? Especially being new to the clinic?
