omarosa47

I'm struggling with whether or not to approach my nurse manager about my shift tonight. To give you some background I have been an aid on one of two oncology units in a very large hospital facility for about 9 months. I love my job, and at the risk of sounding boastful, I'm good at. I'm a med student, so I have a good understanding of the care my patients need and I bring my concerns to the RN's attention. Because of my educational background, the nurses put more trust in me and have higher expectations than they do of other aids. Which is fine, when I'm not there I want people to talk about how good I am not how much they're dreading my next shift, but I think is coming back to bite me in the butt. I work the 3-11 shift while RNs work 7-7, so I work half with day nurses, half with night nurses. Today I picked up a shift on the other oncology unit, I do this fairly regularly so I know everybody very well there. I am the only aid with 9 beds and 7pt. and 3 RNs. The first 4 hours of my shift were great, busy but I could manage. I knew that if I needed lifting help or if I was busy in a room the RNs would cover (i.e. grab a drink, empty a urinal, ect.) But as soon as shift change came all hell broke loose. We got two admits from the ED, spiked 2 neutropenic fevers, and had a couple incidents with an incontinent pt. who just got Lasix. The night nurses would not get off their butts to help me, one in particular. She had one of the ED admits, who had an altered mental status and was a fall risk. Transport brought the guy up she hands me the slide board so the guy from transport and I can transfer by ourselves! I spent the next 45 min (time I should have been getting vitals) getting him settled, she didn't come in at all. Then I spent the next 2 hours running around like crazy trying to get vitals, clean people up, get drinks, finish I/Os all while the three nurses are sitting there not doing a thing, except for reminding me so-so needs their urinal emptied or a drink or complain I haven't charted yet. I ended up taking no break and staying an hour late just to get everything done, something that almost never happens no matter how busy I am. I love busy shifts, but that was out of control because nobody was willing to help me. I'm struggling with whether to talk to my manager about this or not. I don't want to come off as a whiner but I felt that I was so overloaded with work and the nurses were doing so little it was almost dangerous. What would you do? Approach the manager? Not? What would you say? P.S. I should probably mention that two of the nurses, the two doing the least to help have a reputation for sleeping on the job and not being team players. TLDR; Night nurses don't do anything while aid runs like crazy.