I remember once on a very busy day I could barely keep up, admission, discharge, blood, tpn, ETOH patient pulling out his IV blood everywhere, screaming patient for pain medication all at 0900. I asked my aide to please get a set of vitals so I could start the blood, and I ran to the blood bank to retrieve the blood. My aide said it had to wait because she was going on break to have her breakfast, it was 9am.
Okay, later that day I get pulled into the managers office and get reprimanded for not helping my CNA.
I was running my tail off, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I told her really and who is helping me?
Such a toxic pit, I soon left that job