Tuesday, May 09, 2006
My work just sucks.
Friday I get a call from one of my workmates, she tells me they are sending me to another ward for Sundays shift because they are overstaffed. I get pissed, I have been sent to other wards twice in the last month and my last shift was totally shitty, the place I got sent to gave me their heaviest patient, had a cvc, pca, blood tranfusion, TPN, ileul conduit on hourly measures, catheter...bleh and 4 other patients, 1 new admission, 1 post op on 1/2hrly obs for 4 hrs. *sighs*
So I dread going to work all Sunday, I finally get there and I am given an old guy who has had a brain injury, he has been having one nurse look after him most of the week cause he was aggressive and trying to hop out of bed, not a good thing on his broken hip. I have a couple other patients who are okay. The next day I get given a bunch of patients, then they all get changed by the boss, I never knew where I was going or what I was doing and I was so tired I didn't really care. My housemate needed to do something for work, at 4am in the morning... restart a server or some such. So i went to bed at 12, got to sleep around 1:30am-2am, then got woken up by him at 4am cause he didn't think to close my door and it was open because of the cat. Finally get back to sleep, get woken up at 6am so I can be back at work by 7am. Good thing I am an insomniac or I would be in real trouble by now eh?
I just dread going to work... had my month off in Thailand, it was fantastic but it wore off all too quickly. I am still a grumpy bitch who cannot deal with the stress of nursing. People approach me at work and all I feel is distain, its okay with my patients mostly, but relatives asking more and more and more and more just gets me to the end of my teather sooo quickly and I have heaps of trouble not being rude to them.
Friday I get a call from one of my workmates, she tells me they are sending me to another ward for Sundays shift because they are overstaffed. I get pissed, I have been sent to other wards twice in the last month and my last shift was totally shitty, the place I got sent to gave me their heaviest patient, had a cvc, pca, blood tranfusion, TPN, ileul conduit on hourly measures, catheter...bleh and 4 other patients, 1 new admission, 1 post op on 1/2hrly obs for 4 hrs. *sighs*
So I dread going to work all Sunday, I finally get there and I am given an old guy who has had a brain injury, he has been having one nurse look after him most of the week cause he was aggressive and trying to hop out of bed, not a good thing on his broken hip. I have a couple other patients who are okay. The next day I get given a bunch of patients, then they all get changed by the boss, I never knew where I was going or what I was doing and I was so tired I didn't really care. My housemate needed to do something for work, at 4am in the morning... restart a server or some such. So i went to bed at 12, got to sleep around 1:30am-2am, then got woken up by him at 4am cause he didn't think to close my door and it was open because of the cat. Finally get back to sleep, get woken up at 6am so I can be back at work by 7am. Good thing I am an insomniac or I would be in real trouble by now eh?
I just dread going to work... had my month off in Thailand, it was fantastic but it wore off all too quickly. I am still a grumpy bitch who cannot deal with the stress of nursing. People approach me at work and all I feel is distain, its okay with my patients mostly, but relatives asking more and more and more and more just gets me to the end of my teather sooo quickly and I have heaps of trouble not being rude to them.
8:20 AM
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