CherylBishop

Sad to say this.. I had a 20 yr RN start to give a patient Regular insulin instead of Lantus. Luckily the patient was with it. He knew what the color of his insulin pens were. He told me about it the day after it happened. Told me "he was happy as hell I was back from my night off"

13 Jul 3 by cleback The main disatisfier for me is feeling like the middle management of healthcare sometimes and having different "higher ups" with competing priorities telling you what to do. Have to keep the patient's 100% happy all the time, but why are you calling the on-call doc for a different pain management plan? A diet order? Pffttt all that can wait 12-15 hrs until the morning rounds. Practice at your highest level of education but clean rooms after discharges because we let go all of our housekeepers. It's no win sometimes. Honestly, if all I wanted to do was make a difference in someone's life, I could have volunteered at a nursing home and work a much less stressful 9-5. I have worked in nursing homes for the last 24 years. If you think it's 9-5 and much less stressful you are NUTS. 12-16 hour days. Family members and administrators up your hind end all the time. Anywhere from 25-50 patients that you are responsible for. And are also responsible for the nursing assistants that work under you. I'm not saying your job is any less stressful, so please don't say mine is.

Nursing is something I still love to do. However, the reasons these ladies give are all very valid reasons for leaving. I will add this to the hospital nurses. I know that you have more critical care with your patients. But they should try anywhere from 25 to 50 patients or more in the long term care settings. From anywhere from 8 to 16 hours a day. The mental stressors are enormous. You get blamed for everything