nurse708

I also work night, 11p-7a, for the past year and I can't get on a schedule to save myself! I go home and am usually in bed asleep by 9 and I will try to set the alarm for 6:30 or so but I hit snooze until 10p. All I want to do is sleep. I'm really starting to get depressed and hate my nursing job.

i am in the process of trying to come up with a skills checklist for the nurses in the medical dept of the regional jail that i work. our nursing staff consists of 3 rn's and 10 lpn's. my hsa and i were discussing one day that it seems like some of us have let certain skills slip since we do not perform them on a regular basis and there are certain staff members that will suddenly disappear when certain tasks need to be performed because they don't know how to perform the task. so, i opened my big mouth and now my hsa wants me to write up a skills checklist and each staff member will be signed off once competency is demonstrated. i need help with creating this list please!! any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! thanks in advance!