TNTraumaTech

I love nights, wouldn't trade it for anything in the world is *except* a monday-friday job 8-5 p.m. (yea I keep telling myself to keep dreaming lmao). I hate the fact that dayshifts thinks that night shift doesn't have much more work to do at night. I have worked on every floor and every unit of this hospital I work at except peds and newborn intensive care. Them are the only two floors that I haven't worked and signed my john henry a million times in one night on. Every floor is the same when it comes to staffing and dumping work on the on coming shift... It's annoying, day shift is so well staffed at my hospital, but at nights, we do good to survive. Techs do good to have just 15 patients a piece.. some nights we have 30 patients a piece. Units are lucky to have one tech. ER is lucky to have 4 techs.. for RN's, they are lucky to have 4 nurses for a 30 bed floor... and units are lucky if they have 2 patients a piece. As for dayshift, u averagly see 4 techs on a 30 patient floor, 7 rn's for a 30 bed floor, 1 to 2 patients per a rn per condition of patient in the units, er has 7 techs. and it really pisses me off to see dayshift sitting back relaxed yakin a storm up with their coworkers and them to dump work on us. night shift may not have much work to do, BUT we have to take on more patients, which gives us more work, more charting, and more responsibility. We take our lunch breaks sitting while we do our charting. and when we are really short staffed... we are lucky to see a bathroom that night that we can occupy for ourselves.

:uhoh21: :uhoh21: :uhoh21: Hi! Btw, I'm new on here... but I'm really nervous about the Nursing Entrance Test I'll be taking in order to get in to LPN school. I've been a CNA for three years and a Trauma tech for one year now. I've partially finished my health Care administrative degree, I like two classes from finishing it. The first year working on that degree I was excited, then I become a CNA and decided a desk job wasn't for me that I liked taking care of people much better. But I stuck with the degree for so long to keep my dad happy but it just wasn't making me happy... I bought a book the other day, Kaplan Nursing School Entrance Exams, and I'm not doing so hot in this practice book which has me extremely nervous even more than I already was about taking this test next week. I know if I got into the program I would do great, I've exceptional background in the medical field already. I've worked one of the leading Trauma centers in the area in the intensive care, trauma bays, and with lifestar, I have Post Op experience, ER experience, Med/Surgs floor ranging from respiratory, peds, ortho, neuro, transplant, & cardio. The hospital I'm working for will pay for me to go to LPN school if I get in, I only have to pay for books and nursing uniforms.... maybe I'm over reacting about this test. Can anybody tell me any tips about this test, what exactly does it cover?