nursecatRN

Although I would not have left that way I would have told my don, well I need to lay down for an hour then please watch the patients.. Maybe they'd get the point. I'm so grateful to work with kinder people.. If one of us is sick, others will step in and help so the I'll person can go home and patients will be safe.

I started my career as an RN with an ADN and 4 years later I got my BSN. Have been an RN 5 years. Had to get the BSN to get an acute care job. BSN and ADN nurses are clinically about the same at the.start. The only thing that helps a nurse be better is experience, good training, and mentorship from good, more experienced nurses. BSN taught me to write a paper and more "fluff" but opened doors to opportunity. A nurse' worth is not determined by he/his degree but rather her/his smarts, experience, and attitude.

I would at least put a bug in my manager's ear and would not sign any unwitnessed drawn up meds or wastes with that nurse...

Requests I get that do not require an RN.... Patient wants a new blanket, other blanket has a stain from dinner.. Patient would like gown tie loosened. Patient dropped remote for TV, patient family member wants to know when doctor will be here, patient sock slid down, patients roommate (not my pt, not my name on board) has a question. Patient with diet orders clearly written on board with today's date would like crackers, patient who has urinal and no order for urine on care board would like it emptied. patient pillow needs readjusted because patient says it's too flat. Transport needs assistance with walky talky pt on no iv lines or anything, doc wants to know what home dose of med is from pharmacy, he has the number for you, pt family member wants a chair/cot/fan/blanket /water, doc wants patients last weight (it's in the chart on the front page of the patient's stuff) rt is out of duonebs and needs pharmacy to restock pyxis (so call them yourself) can't find call light (we have voice calls, tell pt they're holding it..) blanket not soft enough, bed needs raised up for comfort (see those buttons that a two year old could figure out?) pt wants to have a cigarette but has no lighter (I kid you not haha). Pt family member xyz called and wants info (pt listed as private and no info release on header of chart) pt wants to know what the cafeteria is serving, he doesn't like his menu. Can patient have pain meds? From case manager nurse who was in room with me 8 minutes ago when I was giving pain meds and can see the updated pain meds schedule on care board). Patient has gas and said farts smell (okay... I'm glad I have to walk to his/her room to close out request electronically for nothing and experience that)... Toilet clogged in walky talky pts room or guest bathroom... (seriously call maintenance, I don't care seriously, and I'm not a plumber) helicopter noise from lifeflight is too loud outside. Friend is homeless, can he stay here too? Patient's watch died, please come look at it. Patient's (600 lbs) butt itches (I'll do a lot of things for a patient, but.. No.. Sorry.. Just no.) Visitor would like nail file. Ice water requested is too cold. Visitors would like to know of best restaurants in area (granted, my hospice, long stay patients families may ask me about that while they're there but this was a walky talky pt and family who really didn't need to be there and they paged me for this 6 times in 8 minutes while I was placing an NG tube down the hall. Patient visitor requests fork from cafeteria. Patient wants nurse, says he is bored.... Sorry. Could go on and on. Dumb requests abound. I don't usually mind but when I get 40 stupid pages in an hour I lose it a bit lol.

LoL only a non nurse would say something so patronizing and dead wrong. If someone is complaining about problems, they care a lot. If someone cares little or not at all they wouldn't be bothered to worry or stress.

Definitely agree with that. If the patient has no Iv and needs one and you haven't even tried to replace it that is rude. And you should pass your meds and not leave them, for sure. I always look up these kinds of things before report though.

what I know is that I'm getting patientos without orders to care for them and that is unsafe. AND getting my 7th patient who is unstable for the night is dangerous. what I know is that before I send the patient somewhere else that I am responsible to make sure that the patient is safe for transfer and that the person I am giving the patient to has appropriate information. I also know that this kind of bullying to accept unsafe practices and suck it up by other nurses is why nursing is a nightmare so I don't appreciate your rude attitude.

if I don't know all of the labs or test results then its fine for the computer to be loaded up to look.. but documenting during report that the patient has wrist bands and non skid socks on when it takes 8 minutes for the computer to load or you're literally in with someone else's patient and documenting your shift assessment before you even take report for me and I'm waiting is so incredibly rude and obnoxious.

Why are some people so inconsiderate during shift change? Don't start opening the computer and charting safety rounds in the middle of report when you know we have 7 pts to hand off and 5 nurses to report to. If you are coming on, don't start non urgent assessments, meds or whatever until you've gotten report on the other patients. The offgoing shift wants to leave! Does anyone else have coworkers with rude report habits?

No report from ER is pure insanity, and utterly dangerous. Half the pts come up before "30 min" because ER wants to push them out. Half the time they have squat for orders, aren't stable at all, can't give a history, etc. I don't care how long you have to wait for a floor nurse to pick up for report. If I'm too busy to take report I'm likely to busy to accept a trainwreck admission right now! /Rant but seriously the come up, no orders but on 02... Diabetic and no orders for anything with a big of 45 or 450. Screaming in pain, no orders, etc. It's a very dangerous practice. We are forced to do time consuming bedside report because laying eyes on the pt and getting good info is so important to safety but now we're getting a surprise admission and no info usually? Unsafe, unsafe, unsafe.

I have started applying elsewhere, but there are only a few major systems in the city. Just filled out another application elsewhere that I will print on my next day off in a few days. I am not happy in the job. I am a good nurse. I try to be very safe and care deeply. I don't want to drain myself at a job that doesn't care about me or patients. I will stay where I am until I find something else. I am not so green that I didn't already know how healthcare is but the fact of the matter is that I know I should not have to feel like I want to cry whenever I have to go to work. The work life balance, I thought, would be better on 12's, but it is not because of nights. I do not want to go to days on this job, though I would be open to days in general. I guess we will see in time. I appreciate you all so much. I am so happy I am not alone. I hopefully will not need antidepressant medication because I feel like that is extreme but I will talk to my doctor, maybe take up a yoga class as that helped me with the stress of my first year in nursing stress (which was different than now...) Thank you all again.

Unfortunately I can't go back to my old job as the position was eliminated but I am looking. I want out of the bedside... But I did want the hospital experience. I fear for hospital patients because their safety is the lowest priority to management.

I want to feel like I could talk to HR but they have so many people applying for each job that I doubt they would want to bother with trying to help me when it'd be easier to just replace me. I am afraid to talk to HR really, and on nights it's difficult because I sleep days and HR is at a different campus.

The target is what I fear. I want to keep my head down to be able to get out as soon as I can and be able to transfer. I am fine on days off with a stretch anxiety wise. It's just at work that I struggle and the next day I am stressed and have to work to relax.

Very, thank you. On good nights when I'm not putting out fires, assessments are quick and I start meds. Sometimes though the wound care has to be done when the patient has a c-diff BM and it's in their horrible bedsores haha.