Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Heya
thought I was goned didn't ya??
Well I cut down to 4 days at work, coudn't handle the 5 day week anymore without getting terribly cranky at patients... oh not out loud just in my mind.
Told one of my friends yesterday that I felt like cutting one of my patients heads off with a spoon...lol. Talk about pendantic he just about drove me insane. "I need to go the toilet, but I can't wipe my bottom because I have this drip thing in my hand, can you do it for me?"
Me thinking in my mind.. hundred of other people in the hospital have IV's and they have no trouble wiping their own butts, but anyways... we get to the toilet and he sits for a while. I can't do anything in this time cause he is MRSA which is a bug which means I have to glove and gown every time I go into his room, and I don't have time to leave and come back with all the changing I have to do. Finally he says he is ready to hop in the shower, he stands up and I wipe his butt... "No can you use wet toilet paper because my bottom is really sensitive..."
Rolling eyes to myself at this stage. "yeah okay but lets get this moving I have four other patients for this morning to shower."
"Oh I want to go shave before I shower."
GAH... I just said I have 4 other patients dude... get a clue!
Leave him be, go deal with a lady's colostomy bag (this takes up all the rest of my shift that I am not with the delicate butt guy).
The bag keeps coming off, I had her for all 4 days this week and EVERY day without fail the bag unstuck and poop spilled everywhere, not just once... but 2 or 3 times a shift, otherwise it was filling up every hour or less.
Go back to him, finally ready to go to the shower, I connect up his JJ feeds, stick him in the shower. "Oh I need someone to wash my back."
well i have to stand here anyways so I might as well do something I spose.
"don't scrub hard though cause my skin is very sensitive..."
wash his back and he starts to dry off,
"Careful drying my back, my skin is sensitive, like a baby..."
Holy crap fella are you a man or a woman?
"Okay I need a bluey (plastic back with fabric top for leakage etc)"
I get him a big bluey.
"Oh I need the small ones because of my sensitive skin"
I feel the rage building. I find him a few small blueys.
"oh and can you get me a vomit bowl"
I grab the vomit back that is on the table by his bed.
"oh but I wanted one of those square dish ones..."
bloody oath, I have just gowned and gloved 4 times for you this morning, get a CLUE, I have 4 other patients including the woman with the hourly empties of her colostomy bag which keeps unsticking and leaking every fucking where. She isn''t has damn demanding as you. One of my other patients was post op and the other had poop coming out through his urinary catheter by midday, so getting you another vomit bowl when I have already given you a perfectly good vomit bag is just ridiculous.
Am seriously sick of it all. we are understaffed constantly, every monday and friday I am either called in or have to swap shifts, this week i worked 10hrs on Monday cause they don't apparently have any staff to fill in and the staff on Monday morning was totally shitty. 2 or maybe 3 RN's and a few EN's for 33 patients is NOT ENOUGH. ARGHHHHHHHHHH
Okay I am going now, enough ranting for today
Laters :p
thought I was goned didn't ya??
Well I cut down to 4 days at work, coudn't handle the 5 day week anymore without getting terribly cranky at patients... oh not out loud just in my mind.
Told one of my friends yesterday that I felt like cutting one of my patients heads off with a spoon...lol. Talk about pendantic he just about drove me insane. "I need to go the toilet, but I can't wipe my bottom because I have this drip thing in my hand, can you do it for me?"
Me thinking in my mind.. hundred of other people in the hospital have IV's and they have no trouble wiping their own butts, but anyways... we get to the toilet and he sits for a while. I can't do anything in this time cause he is MRSA which is a bug which means I have to glove and gown every time I go into his room, and I don't have time to leave and come back with all the changing I have to do. Finally he says he is ready to hop in the shower, he stands up and I wipe his butt... "No can you use wet toilet paper because my bottom is really sensitive..."
Rolling eyes to myself at this stage. "yeah okay but lets get this moving I have four other patients for this morning to shower."
"Oh I want to go shave before I shower."
GAH... I just said I have 4 other patients dude... get a clue!
Leave him be, go deal with a lady's colostomy bag (this takes up all the rest of my shift that I am not with the delicate butt guy).
The bag keeps coming off, I had her for all 4 days this week and EVERY day without fail the bag unstuck and poop spilled everywhere, not just once... but 2 or 3 times a shift, otherwise it was filling up every hour or less.
Go back to him, finally ready to go to the shower, I connect up his JJ feeds, stick him in the shower. "Oh I need someone to wash my back."
well i have to stand here anyways so I might as well do something I spose.
"don't scrub hard though cause my skin is very sensitive..."
wash his back and he starts to dry off,
"Careful drying my back, my skin is sensitive, like a baby..."
Holy crap fella are you a man or a woman?
"Okay I need a bluey (plastic back with fabric top for leakage etc)"
I get him a big bluey.
"Oh I need the small ones because of my sensitive skin"
I feel the rage building. I find him a few small blueys.
"oh and can you get me a vomit bowl"
I grab the vomit back that is on the table by his bed.
"oh but I wanted one of those square dish ones..."
bloody oath, I have just gowned and gloved 4 times for you this morning, get a CLUE, I have 4 other patients including the woman with the hourly empties of her colostomy bag which keeps unsticking and leaking every fucking where. She isn''t has damn demanding as you. One of my other patients was post op and the other had poop coming out through his urinary catheter by midday, so getting you another vomit bowl when I have already given you a perfectly good vomit bag is just ridiculous.
Am seriously sick of it all. we are understaffed constantly, every monday and friday I am either called in or have to swap shifts, this week i worked 10hrs on Monday cause they don't apparently have any staff to fill in and the staff on Monday morning was totally shitty. 2 or maybe 3 RN's and a few EN's for 33 patients is NOT ENOUGH. ARGHHHHHHHHHH
Okay I am going now, enough ranting for today
Laters :p
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