nursing dilemma: fall into bed exhausted, or fall into bed exhausted after drinking large glass of wine?
i told the powers that be that we needed another tech, but nobody listens to me. apparently they want you to feel like you're participating in staffing choices by making you the charge nurse, but they don't actually want you to make any decisions or (heaven forbid!!) voice an opinion. so we had 1 tech tonight, 1 tech for 19 patients which i'm told is "appropriate staffing". 1 person is supposed to get vitals and fingersticks on 19 people? to take them all to the bathroom, and bring them waters, and count the intakes and outputs? to answer the call lights and clean up messes and change sheets and help turn? as fabulous as our tech is and as hard as she works, this is just not possible. but the (holy, almighty) staffing matrix says we don't get a second tech until we have 20 patients.
which is why after we got our first (of several, thank you very much) admits, i went to the powers that be and said "so we got an admission, where's my tech?"
in hindsight, that may have been inappropriate.
long story short, there was no tech. but there was another admission, then 2 more on the night shift. it was about this time that we realized that our second tech for nights never showed up to work.
then my admission rolled in at 2130 and i couldn't get anything done with her until the police finished grilling her about how she got stabbed.
so here i am, finally home after punching out almost an hour and a half late. i'd like to think of it as "revenge overtime".
should have given me that tech, hmm?
i don't think i need the wine tonight. i've got my righteous anger to keep me warm.
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