ruger71

Thank You !!!! Makes sense pulled so many ways makes my head spin

The other nurses I work with seem to just brush it off and not jump on things. I take a 10 min lunch and they take an hour and take off for hours to run errands...I just don't get it.

As an RN I feel I am pulled a million ways by EVERYONE from patient to disciplines. I end up dropping what I am doing to appease all, and it is starting to burn me out....for fear of being thought of as not caring. Examples are while doing a treatment or med pass...Soo and so needs pain meds, this one has a bruise, this one is dizzy, this one IV is beeping, this one 's dressing came off...on and on all day. My question to SEASONED nurses is do you drop what you are doing to attend to it like I do, or do you say you will get to it when you can ? How do YOU deal with it tactfully ? My assignment is from one wing to other wing so I am back and forth to both sides for issues, meds, phone calls ETC

Do pt.'s in a in a hospital setting have the right to refuse a room change ? I work on a busy med/surg floor. We were getting two new admits. I was to transfer one of my patients to another room. She was upset and crying, she didn't want to change rooms. The family was also there and were upset this was the second room change in a week. I advocated for her stating she had the right to refuse......to make a long story short the supervisor ripped me a new one and yelled in my face...."This is a hospital, they don't have the right to refuse a room change." Legal opinions on the subject ? Was that a wrong call on my part ?