mcl10109

Hi everyone, I've tried to talk with as many people as I can and no such luck I will be destined to float back to med/surg whenever they need. I'm not going to be there much longer. Thank you all for your replies, it really helped me not to feel alone in all this. mcl10109

And I TOTALLY agree with you on this Daytonite especially on the emphasis on TEAMWORK. Unfortunately there's not always that cohesiveness on the floor every day like there should be. I'm totally for helping out and for doing whatever I have to do when people come to what I condsider to be my units I go out of my way to help them if it's in the NI and there is something that is overwhelming for someone that doesn't regularly go there I try and help them. I make sure they are "caught up" and help them if they need to get the ball rolling with anything. And my favorite feed an extra baby and "bond" if I can. If I'm on Peds, another floor I'm very comfortable with, and we get adult floats because we can be adult overflow YES ON PEDS isn't it lovely! I'll go out of my way to show them around where the different important rooms are meds/ dirty/ clean.... give them the door codes introduce them to the staff "mind you I'm still technically a 'float'" also make sure they are caught up sometimes getting myself in a jam and getting a bit behind but I catch up but it's still not med surg or at least not that horrible floor I went to the other day.... Coming to think of it I've always heard the nurses commenting on not giving floats horrible assignments but every time its the same thing. One time I was floated and I was given a confused man in four point restraints, I just about died that day!!!

Ok I definately understand what your saying it sounds like they sent you to a floor that was adequately staffed and I dunno not so bad correct me if I'm wrong about this. I just think that putting nurses on a floor that is inadequately staffed, I'm guessing that is another one of my complaints my last day (but it doesn't ever differ much) ie... one tech to 20 + patients... bed alarms constantly going off... having your confused TOTAL CARE patient who was on the call bell the day before all day yesterday because they are confused and today because they are being cleansed for a colonoscopy tomorrow and cant be understood!!! Did I mention there's only one tech and no way I'm letting that person stay in sh**, sorry....and every one of your patients wants something and to top it off you are the ONLY nurse mind you that has not floated there in months but is getting an admit cuz your numbers were set up like that from the start and it's always 6:1. I don't know I'm just going to start speaking up ALL THE TIME... let's see how quickly I get labeled as whiney or as somebody who doesn't want to work.

Yes... Please tell me that you also were a floor nurse in the same dilemma and had to float between very vast specialties. Oh and by the way supervisor, today you'll be working on the floor with a full patient assignment 6:1... 4 discharges and admits to fill up those beds as soon as they are empty. But that you haven't been doing floor work for five years is no big deal because you're a nurse and you can do it. I'd like to be a bug on a wall that day and just watch. LOL..... As for management... it seems this problem is rampant hospitalwide, nothing is going to change with my position. I've asked and pleaded my case until I'm blue in the face. Hey, sometimes you have to stumble to learn. It sure sucks when you get scrapes though. I've cried enough over this subject ... I'm gonna keep on truckin till I can find a facility can can help me keep my license safe, I worked too hard to get to this position. I hate to have to leave. I was hoping to be able to start working at one place and just stay there but oh, well, we'll see about the next one. Believe me I'm interviewing the next one and now I know what to ask! All I want to do is work with women infant and children. I float to a lot more floors than other nurses in that hospital float to. All I'm asking is to be kept from med surg. I just wished the hospital and managers really cared about the patients. A nurse is not just any nurse, that's why there are different floors if not they would all be integrated.

to anne74 no job is worth being so sick as to not to be able to go to work it sounds like you've toughed it out long enough it's not good for your physical or mental health. RUN!!!!! Good Luck

I could try to offer this up but unfortunately they staff with me included in their numbers, I'm now trying to learn mom baby but at least it's not a far cry from my main floor, where I want to be. I beat myself up after the last horrible day I had and have tried to think up how else I could have handled it, I have come up nothing short of just realizing I am a good nurse and it's a far stretch to be going to all those different units and still be expected to be able to take on med/surg patients. I'm going to try to say NO when asked to float there, of course I feel I don't have any choice in the matter and have been told so many times. Thank you very much for all your suggestions and well wishes :loveya:

see now that's the thing I have precepted for that floor like three years ago and I go there sporificely like every 5 or 6 months maybe 1 2 or 3 days and that's it, I would really rather not go back but I keep getting told that when the Adult units need me I "have to" go back because I have been trained. I understand that but the pace is too fast for me and I'm not a regular and still am expected to perform like a regular on that floor "ugh"

Hi I'm a nurse with a small dilemma and was hoping for some assistance. I graduated 3 years ago and like many new graduates are told to do so I went into med surg to develop my "nursing skills". Well after I begged and pleaded I was able to secure transfer to a NICU position and was safe there until my training time was over. Now every so often (we're talking about every 5 - 6 months) when the census goes down I'm expected to be able to go back to med surg and perform as well as the nurses that work that floor regularly I've spoken to my bosses using the chain of command and so far the response I've gotten is a nurse is a nurse is a nurse. I'm so frustrated. I love taking care of my patients, just the patient load, ancillary assistance available really don't compare to the the other floors that I work on and there really isn't enough time to be checking at least 5 out of every twenty medicines that you have to give per patient in the am. I feel that I can adequately take care of peds, gyn, mom/baby and level 2 nicu and think that med surg is too far a stretch or am I just overreacting and my bosses are right a nurse is a nurse is a nurse??? Please Help Any reply is appreciated Thank You

5:1 to start then admits and d/c as appropriate to keep you at a level of 6:1