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I worked a year doing 7pm to 7am shifts on a very busy, understaffed med/surg floor: no more twelves. If you work a twelve-hour shift through the night (like 7p-7a), it takes you the entire next day to get rested up and even then, you feel like crap...

I work nights on a very, very busy and very understaffed med-surg floor. Lately, the unit dir. has started coming onto the floor in the mornings, with a detailed list of the patients' complaints (if any), from that night's shift. I am just really P.O...

This is the kind of crap I am talking about. They don't want you to tell the patients you're short-staffed - so what the hell do they think the patients/family will conclude about why it takes so long to get their needs met - of course they are goin...

Mdslabod: You suggested sticking my head in a patient's door to see if they need anything - and if I am too busy to tend to them; to send someone else. What if there is no one else to send??? What part of 'short-staffing' do you not understand??? Whe...

Mdslabod: I am as concerned about anyone else (and so are the other nurses, for that matter) about customer satisfaction - But - You have to crawl before you can walk. First: Give me safe staffing. Then I will worry about custome...

Please take note how the topic of this thread has changed. It started out as "Does Your Unit Director Do This?", and has now degenerated into a blame-the-nurse scenario. Makes me wonder who this mdslabod really is.

mdslabod.... Oh..it's my attitude that needs changing. I'm glad you pointed that out for me. I thought the problem was understaffing. Thanks for the tips. Next time someone wants to chat, of course I will sit by their bed and listen to a long-winded...

While I'm at it........ Why the h*ll does she come on the floor with complaints and read them to us? What the h*ll does she think we are? Does she actually think we would mistreat a patient or family member????? Talk about insulting!

She couldn't care less what goes on on night shift - I think she is the Unit Dir. because no one else would take the job. I have been there approximately one year - the one and only time I have seen her at night: she was there - but didn't tell us wh...

MORE INFO: And our patients: we have CVP's, PICCs, feeding tubes....heparin drips...the other night I was describing, one of the four admits was to receive a unit of blood! It is COMPLETELY ridiculous! They admit patients until we are full. So how...

I work on a med/surg unit and we usually have 10 to 12 patients apiece.....if we are "lucky" enough to start off with 9 then we get admissions. Many, many nights, our CNAs split the floor...31 patients and 2 CNAs, with 3 RNs. The stress level can g...

You know, when I got to work, "they" (the ones I'd worked with the other night) were fine....it wasn't about me, evidently. (Imagine that..... ) The one nurse apologized to me...it was just like old times. I don't know; evidently the stress was com...

Hello people - advice needed. I am an RN and I work on a very busy med-surg/oncology floor where we typically have 10-12 patients apiece. I've been there nearly six months now, working the 7p - 7a shift. Previously, I was out of nursing, at home f...

Anyone who has used this co. to get a London position; please email me and tell me how it was.

The two positions in ICU are supposedly coming open in June, so I'll be hangin' around nearly a year, anyway. Plus I wonder if it would be any different anywhere else. But, at least in ICU I wouldn't routinely have ten to twelve patients. Anyway, ...

I need advice...I work med/surg, and if we miss a scheduled weekend, we have to make it up. Well, guess what. My makeup weekend is working "with" the biggest ***** I've ever seen. I am so dreading this. Usually, things don't bother me...I mean, ...

Hi everyone. I thought this thread was closed, until I just happened to be passing by, just happened to be in the neighborhood and, well....you know. Actually, "Godzilla" is looking better every day because my regular group - the group I've been bo...

Oh, no, no, no!!!!!!!! I don't want to give it up...no way. I want to STAY...and no, the only reason isn't to make a living. God, I love being a nurse. I guess I just don't understand why there are so many bitchy people in nursing...I mean, perus...

I am starting to think most nurses are total morons. All you hear out of my clinical leader's mouth is how lousy nursing admin. is; how we aren't supported; how we're understaffed....on and on....but, look at what goes on on the floor. She doesn't ...

A surprise for me: I'd thought I could get along with ANYBODY. I'd thought I liked everybody..............NOT!!!!!!!

Update: well I ended up working last night, anyway. Here's what happened...after I called in, I got to worrying about was discussed in our last unit meeting: self-staffing. I thought: oh, Lord: will I have to work with these people AGAIN and wh...

It's over...oh thank God..over for now, anyway...I went into work last night...one of the RNs said they'd called up staffing and an RN was going to have to be pulled to another floor (not necessarily me) but I jumped at the chance to get off the floo...

A cross? I was thinking of a STAKE, actually.......

I haven't had my weekend yet....my weekend with Godzilla. It's looming ahead of me, like some giant monolith monster. (That's an old B-horror flick...) But somehow, it seems appropriate here.......

I pretty much agree with Jane....you can't go running to "mommy" everytime you have a problem with somebody. It's childish and it shows you cannot "deal" with things. After thinking about it I have realized that this isn't enough (yet) to make me r...