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I'm sure all of you have heard about the national nursing "shortage" that has been threatening this nation's healthcare systems. Problem is, I have figured out it's not a nursing shortage-it's a shortage of nurses unwilling to work in unsafe situations, thus risking their licensure. Even though I've got two kids to feed and a household to run, I'm finding myself in this situation.
Tonight was a prime example. There were 9 of us; one is assigned to triage, one is charge, and that leaves 7 of us to take laboring/delivering/recovering patients and their babies. The normal ratio for our Level III (the worst of the worst) is 2:1-two patients per RN.
We do have OR techs but their responsibility is scrubbing in during sections. They cannot do any patient (or newborn) care whatsoever.
I walked right into a section in which delivery time was 1915. Got her into recovery about 2030. Now with a section you are obligated to be in the room for the first 45 minutes to make sure mom doesn't have complications and bleed to death. Well, I was in recovery all of 25 minutes when my pager went off-my other patient was complete.
I had to leave my recovery patient (and newborn, mind you, which needed his own assessments & vital signs) for an hour to push with this patient-things really looked hairy because the heart rate was awful-I can't put the appropriate words on this message board it was that bad. We got a baby and all was well. That's two in recovery for me-one vag and one section.
Since both my patients were slated to leave the floor within the next two hours, guess who got the new assignment-that's right, me. I have TWO patients now (actually four, with the babies) in recovery requiring frequent bleeding checks, assessments, etc. Obviously things had to be overlooked that weren't important-all I could concentrate on were live moms and live babies at this point.
So imagine my surprise when the charge nurse pulls me aside and starts griping at me for not getting my vag patient up to the bathroom-she had to do it. Excuse me, I tried-had her on the bedpan. Her epidural catheter had not been pulled yet so I could not get her up to walk. I explained all that-it didn't matter.
I was so upset because there were two nurses all night that had one assignment-ONE-when I had four patients total myself-two of which I delivered and sent upstairs. They were never approached to help me at all and sat @ the nurses station most of the night which is a normal occurrence.
I sent an e-mail to the nurse manager because I really felt this was an unsafe situation for everyone and it was my license on the line. I also didn't appreciate the charge nurse copping an attitude with me. It was a horrible night & I'm glad it's over......but I'm so worked up I can't think of falling asleep and I'm going on 26 hours awake right now.
Would you have e-mailed the nurse manager too or let it go?
You are dealing with patient safety - and your own livlihood. I'd have made sure it was brought to her attention. You can always say you wanted to be sure she knew about it for the safety of the hospital!
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You are dealing with patient safety - and your own livlihood. I'd have made sure it was brought to her attention. You can always say you wanted to be sure she knew about it for the safety of the hospital!
Why in the world were you given 4 patients and the others were given one???
Unfortunately it happens all the time everywhere. My brother is a nurse too (just earned his Master's) and we share horror stories about the nurses who are "buddy buddy" with the charge RN-they always get easy assignments, slow assignments, etc. etc.
It's so childish sand-box like behavior-but it's prevalent in the profession. I won't become a member of the "clique" because my primary concern is my patients and their safety-not sitting out at the nurses station talking about wedding dresses, who's doing what that weekend, etc. etc.
Unfortunately it happens all the time everywhere. My brother is a nurse too (just earned his Master's) and we share horror stories about the nurses who are "buddy buddy" with the charge RN-they always get easy assignments, slow assignments, etc. etc.
It's so childish sand-box like behavior-but it's prevalent in the profession. I won't become a member of the "clique" because my primary concern is my patients and their safety-not sitting out at the nurses station talking about wedding dresses, who's doing what that weekend, etc. etc.
My Dh is a nurse and he gets the same thing everynight. Although he works a cardic floor. He has gotten to the point that he would rather travel nurse then work at the hospital that he has been at for ten years. At least with a travel position there is a CLEAR contract and because they pay so much more there is hardly an mandatory overtime. DH is an RN, so is SIL, and MIL works in surgery. Needless to say I know
all about the "shortage"
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It's so childish sand-box like behavior-but it's prevalent in the profession. I won't become a member of the "clique" because my primary concern is my patients and their safety-not sitting out at the nurses station talking about wedding dresses, who's doing what that weekend, etc. etc.
This seems to be a prevalent problem all through the health care field. I am a Medical Technologist with many years of experience in my chosen field and I can tell you that most of the "kids" coming into the lab today do not have the same focus and dedication to patient care that my "older" co-workers and I were taught right from day one in school. My SIL is an RN who has worked in hospitals all over the country (she's also a military wife!) and these days she's appalled at the lack of professionalism she's seeing in this new crop of nurses. At first we thought it was just our perception and that we had a bias because these new recruits were the ages of our own children and it can be hard to suddenly realize that the future is here and you have now been replaced by your kids! I just hope I have taught my kids to be a bit more responsible in their chosen fields. Sorry for my rant - this has really been a topic for us at work lately!
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I think you were right to bring it to your supervisor's attention. This is an unsafe situation for you, the baby, the mom and ultimately it puts the hospital itself in jeopardy. I sympathize with the health care shortage but this is definitely something a supervisor should be taking a closer look at.
Hope you get some sleep tonight.
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sounds like a typical night that a friend of mine had to deal with a lot before she finally found a new job... she kept quiet even though we told her to speak up... she didn't and they put more and more crap on her and made her feel incredibly worthless.
I'm glad that you sent the manager an e-mail and I'm sorry you've had such a bad shift. I think if it's brought to
their attention then your doing what you can to change any problems that come up.
As a section patient I will say that my nurse didn't stay with me for 45 minutes in the recovery room nor in my
room. After they decided that I needed to be upstairs and Ellie in the nursery, she took me upstairs, dropped
Ellie off in the nursery with my DH and drove me into my room. When we got there I "helped" her transfer
myself onto the room bed because another nurse couldn't be found. Once I did that, she left the room. I was
in and out of it for about an hour and I didn't see her again that day (shift change). I will say that I had some WONDERFUL
nurses and some stinkers.
I think you were right to contact the nurse manager...what if one of the patients did start bleeding...
This is definetly a problem and it was the right thing to notify the manager of this problem...also I do not see why you had more patients while others only had one...
Totally agree that you needed to send that email. I was put in that same situation time and time again even after talking with the nurse manager about the risk to patients. I finally left that job behind because I felt it was too unsafe and I was tired of putting my hard earned liscense on the line. I hope you get some results from your email. Get some rest and I hope your next shift is better
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I just hope I have taught my kids to be a bit more responsible in their chosen fields. Sorry for my rant - this has really been a topic for us at work lately!
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