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Thank you all for responding to my post, I appreciate it. I was told by a couple of nurses that are always chilling at the NS talking, gossiping, texting, waiting on 2nd shift etc. (I envy them) that I spend too much time with pts and their care. I was told that I need to cut my time in 1/2 with them. Ex. bedbath, gown, linen chng and poop clean -2 mins tops, VS and BS-1 min tops per pt, that every morning I should be able to go thru 6 charts look up everything that I need to know on each pt - 10 mins total time tops. How is that possible??? I'm starting to think that this whole nursing thing was a huge mistake for me. I have been at this going on 5 months on my own and it is NOT getting any better, (this is not happening for me yet ) don't know if it ever will...so depressing. Please understand that we have no teamwork, it is every man for himself. usually 1-2 techs for 40+ pts so not much delegating going on there and nurses dont help each other. We have to draw labs, do VS, BS, bedbaths,linen chg, feeding pts, clean poop, transport pt to/frm procedures....how can i incorporate all this with....caring for pts needs, chart checks, scanning orders, pulling/passing tons of meds(most times the meds are not in omnicells so they will be late due to searching hi & lo on the floor then notifying pharmacy and waiting on them to send up), paging docs, interventions, tons of paperwork, admissions/DC, charting assessments and notes q 2hrs, and responding to no less than 30 calls a day from pts, family members, MDs, depts, not to mention outgoings calls I have to make, and the list goes on. Is there any kind of order to this madness, it is total chaos for me. I just want to manage to feel good about my pt care, get my orders completed and get out on time!!!!! (Hoping one day I will be able to look back and do this )

Hi all, just needing some help with a couple of things. My notes, they seem to be just too inadequate, too much, too something. I really don't know what exactly to put as an opening note and we have to chart q 2 hrs. we chart by exception. It seems that I basically chart almost the same things on all 6 of my pts and that can't be right. Some say I chart too much info. I always get out late because I have to go back and chart on all my pts. I try to do as I go but that always seems to fail. It also takes me about 10 min to chart each assessment on each pt. I also have a hard time leaving unfinished orders, iv's, dressing chgs etc... that I didn't get done for the next shift to do (they get mad at me if I do leave things). My mgr says I had better start leaving on time or else!!! I just want to be able to leave with the rest of day shift. My shift if over at 7p but I don't leave till 9p or later:crying2:. How do I leave on time?? Any help and advice would be appreciated.