Let me just state for the record that Im grateful to have a job in this economy and feel bad for the people that dont. There, its stated.
Now, onto the rant! Instead of complaining about the facility and how we dont have any supplies Im going to complain about people. Im really trying to hold back typing some very specific explatives about certain people. I really am!
So, its been a hard night here at the "trailer park", the term I affectionately refer my place of employment to. We have a whole crap load of really unstable patients in the ICU, where they freaking belong, I might add! There are 4 patients on vents. 1 of them is trying to climb out of bed whilst vented. Can we say SEDATION PLEASE! One of the others is vented and trached and trying to move around. Hello, good way to strangle yourself! And the psycho pants lady decided she would have a giant seizure while the vents were climbing the walls. Sounds like fun huh? Oh, did I mention durring all of that someone was trying to bleed out on top of it all. Suck a duck! Im glad I dont work in the ICU here.
My good friend just went down to work the ICU full time. I miss her. sigh. I hope theyre not eating her alive. You know what they say, nurses tend to eat their young.
Up here, where the supposedly stable patients are, is a different story most of the time. Tonight we have 2 patients that have pulled out multiple IVs. Like 4 each. That in and of itself is a major bummer!......cuuuuuuuz the one dude has no veins and has dementia. So, in his head its probly a snake or something eating his arm. For that, I dont blame him for pulling it out and chewing on it. Probly sucking the venom out, right? It all makes sense now. Geez, I must be losing it. Im starting to find it really easy to think like my patients. Wait, maybe I have dementia?
One of the other "problems" is a guy who, quite frankly, concerns me. I am genuinely concerned for him. He drives semis for a living and landed in SLC from somewhere down south. All of a sudden he is NOT oriented. Or, in other words, doesnt know who, where, what time, where in time he is. Hes walking around the room stretching his IV.....llllllloooonger than it should be stretched. Peeing in the sink, grabbing at me and all sorts of funky stuff. This is a problem because he is going to hurt himself(aaaaaaand all that paperwork sucks if he falls and hurts himself) or someone else. Not to mention this guy drives a truck for a living. Thank heavens he wasnt driving when all this weirdness happened.
So my point was......even though the ICU sucks right now. We're having some issues too that are very time consuming. People dont need to be coming up here and throwing down attitude. Seriously! Youre busy, we're busy. Dont act like a total sunnuvva you know what. Way to keep morale up here at the trailer park.
In my opinion, this nursing job is the hardest job out there right now. We're expected to make people feel like theyre staying at the 4 seasons..... or at least the Marriott while they get better from whatever is "bugging" them. Someone tell me how Im supposed to do that when we dont have the necessary staff to cover all these patients so they have to wait when they call for something. Now, you know, here at the "trailer park" we dont even have enough equipment that works. Yup, sounding like luxury to me. Theres always patches in the walls where beds have smacked up against the wall and left a hole. Lights are burning out all the time. Faucets dripping, showers that have no hot water, etc, etc, etc. I could go on and on about how nothing works and how gosh awful ugly this place is but the true reason why patients arent happy here is because of money. Uhhh hum, money. The floors budget has been cut. Like everything else in this stupid economy. We got rid of all, I mean all, the luxury supplies. No proper bed bath wipes, no bed pads we just have bath blankets rigged up as draw sheets and thin blue chux that dont absorb ANYTHING!! And yet, we continue to be the highest grossing hospital in the region. So someone please explain to me why we cant have enough nurses to cover all these patients?
This place sucks 75% of the time because(I cant believe it took me this long to figure it out) we dont have more floors to house all the different patient types. My eyes were opened when I got called to work a shift over in "the promised land", our sister hospital, aka the mother ship, where they had true med/surg patients. Whaaaaaat?! yeah, I know, insane right? A med/surg floor with med/surg patients on it. Whoa, it kinda blows my mind too. 'Twas soooo heavenly! I didnt have crazies, and people peeing in sinks and others that kept trying to die. It.was.awesome!
Sooooo, over at the mother ship they have a floor for tele people(people needing heart monitors), a med/surg floor, and a crazy people floor. I could go on and on. Plus, its a different demographic of people......ummm how do i put this nicely? They dont have people that have 3 teeth and swing from engine blocks they strung up in trees to entertain themselves. They have, dare I say, "normal people".
Well, there we go. A small rant about work......again. :)
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