Marushyne

Does anyone else feel overwhelmed these days as a CN? I graduated about 2.5 years ago with no prior medical experience. I was thrown to the wolves my first night with 7 COVID patients and no aid, and that continued for about the first year until COVID slowed down. After that, I was also thrown into the role of charge with no training whatsoever (I was originally told this was only temporary as CN, but that’s not how it turned out). I feel like our managers have no concern for what happens. On a usual night, I’m expected to be CN, take 7 patients, and orient the travelers and multi-facility nurses (internal travelers). This is a “med-surg” floor that regularly sees people entirely too sick, in my opinion, for our floor (I’m talking hanging blood in the hallways while transferring patients to the ICU, intubations on the floor, and etc). We are also only scheduled two aids for 21 patients at night, so they are having to care for 10-11 patients themselves and an RN is regularly performing toileting for pt’s and etc. Does anyone else feel this way about their floor and/or managers?