jaro

I am so tired of nursing for a different reason. Nursing does not make any sense to me anymore. I work at night at a nursing home. It takes me about three hours or more to do my charting. It takes me nearly an hour just to check my treatment book and to sign it off. I have more than 25 patients on the skilled unit and about 55 patients in the long-term unit. Years ago I still had time to take breaks but not anymore. The level of acuity of the patients have changed dramatically. It is not the work itself that bothers me. It is the idea that I am forced to lie everyday. When you think about it, no one can logically check every patient in one 8 hour shift. And yet I sign off on their cardexes everyday that I have. The bosses know about it but don't care. The state has to know about it because any elementary student can tell that it's impossible. And yet no one says anything because it has always been this way. No one says anything but if something wrong happens I know no one will have my back. I love the caring, nurturing and all that good stuff in nursing but lately there seems to be no time for that anymore. The time is spent trying to please the state surveyors by filling paperwork. And it seems like it's just OK with the state health department. Nursing, it seems, has become like any other job. My capacity to care for my patients used to feel like a valuable asset. Now, it's taking time off my paperwork-filling duties.

There are LPN jobs here in Maryland.