chriso3030

Hi there, just recently got hired to the cardiac care unit and telemetry floor about 4.5 months ago. My day starts off by getting report starting around "7" am, I put it in quotes because unfortunately things don't really get started till about 7:20 which is already eating into my morning. Then I check the charts and labs on my usually 6 patients which takes me into 8am, then I go check on my patients and get vitals so I know whether to give meds or not. Then I go get my medication from 3 different accudoses or pyxis or whatever you know it as, seeing as my damn floor is so big, plus get meds out our their individual pharmacy boxes, which puts my 8 am meds being administered right around 9:30. Life sucks on such a busy floor. The only thing worse is when cath lab, ct, x ray, surgery, and dialysis transport is there at 745/8am and I haven't even done squat, now I gotta rush over to get that pt's vitals and somewhat blindly give them their AM mess if I happened to check their charts in time. I sometimes will hold meds until they get back if I feel too rushed. But yeah, that's pretty much at least my mornings until about 11am. Then it's a matter of doing procedures, checking charts, giving more meds, answering calls about the bathroom or food being too cold. Ps, some stuff that you and I know the assistant can do, can only be done by an RN in the patients eyes like getting more water with no ice and some saltines. Anyways, does this schedule sound familiar. Oh, I forgot the late doctors who insist on DC'ing a pt at 530pm when you're just trying to get your documenting in order and hand out your last few meds, and you charge nurse sees that hey, you only have 5 pt's, how about another hour long admission that you can't put off to night shift because it's too early. Sheesh. I love this job :) lol