Anyone ever have just one of those nights?.....Get on the floor...I'm at 12 patients(i'm a tech, btw).....4 knees, a hip, a VIP, some other family complaint person, somebody else who wanted medicine NOW(I can't make the nurse come any faster sir), Family on someone who's leaving who "watches" me get her dressed to make sure I'm doing it right, get a new admit who tries to climb out of bed with a back fx beacuse "I gotta pee..." (pan or bottle sir, no other choices)....who then proceeds to whip said urinal at my head when I tell him this.......finally goes to sleep at 4AM, arrived at 9PM....and I'm trying to take care of everyone else...have to move a pt so the family could stay...(was a good thing, but stilll).......
ARGGHHH...sometimes I feel like the "Best" care I can give isn't the "best" care I COULD give(if we were adequately staffed, and my patient load was realitively based on acuity..(which we supposedly are now....for nurses, not techs...techs are now wayyyyy more overworked then we used to be, and my nurses help, but they aren't there to be techs...they're there to be nurses.....)
OK, I'm done now...off to sleep and back for 1/2 a shift tonight(what was I thinking......) Thanks all.
PS 4 more months til gradutation, 4 more months til graduation.....AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!:bugeyes::bugeyes:
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