nurse T

I have never felt comfortable about short cuts in any nursing duty. If you are a good worker you will soon discover how to best organize your time with priorities first. If you get behind, ask for help. If there is no help, then your sup failed to staff properly. Personally, the facts are that many do take short cuts out of fear that they will lose their job or be reprimanded. The sup has one objective, get as much work out of as little staff as possible, it always comes down to a dollar. Just remember, if you make a costly mistake because you're forced to rush, you may lose your license, but you're sup simply goes through root cause analysis to write up new policies to prevent the event from occuring again.

I like to tell my spouse all the gory details to the wounds I've seen and the treatment details, but I never tell about how I had to remove an impaction, ick!