ICUNURSES

Michigan RN, doggymama23 nurselsteele sharrie Thak you all for reply :):heartbeat:redbeathe:typing ------------------------------------------------------------------------- nurselsteel: i do work in ksa. we work 48 hours if we are day duty or Pm duty and 58 hours if we r night duty. and one day offffff and our duty is not dealing with time its dealing with pateint needs or condition .e.g if patient had CT or US or any procedure u will not go till you will finish your work .either practice or papers works . i am getting psycho due to my duty the problem is no break time in the duty and no one help in the unit i mean we have 24 patient evry nurse has 2 PT and will mange by her/himslf you cant imagine a lot of vicitmes of patieno poor of care they get due to the shortage of the staff >>>> and the staff they are fighting weith each other and more probelms betwen them due to that

i am a male nurse >>> for a 7 years ... i work as icu staff nurse now due to the shortage of the staff we are handling 2 of the most critical cases known in medical filed. we being force by administration of the hospital to handle tow cases : mean : the ratio is 1:2 its not simple cases its the most busy and critical cases we are working for 8 hours in 3 shift and we cant face the administartion because we dont build our refusal response in offical or logic reasons expt that they mention in thir policy the ratio is 1:1 i want to konw of the international policy ist allowed to handle 2 patient vented-restlease-and supporitive managment over hours i feel i want to leave icu but i love my work as icu staff>>>> specialy we work for 6 days a week for one day offfffffffffffffffffffff in i am depresseddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd help me plss s s s s s s Font size edited.Nightmare....Moderator.

Well... when i was joined to nursing field , ifelt that we are the most merciful among all humanity but day per day i start to see that SOME nurses are upset (being psychopath) due to excess work and frightful views , so must of them they are losing their principles and some of their sense :trout: . I DO agree with u from one side .................:trout: