Post by malkieh on Oct 1, 2014 21:20:31 GMT -5
I have had this fear for a couple of months.
Every time they hire another nurse they last only a month, some how I managed to last a year. But the past couple of weeks things have been getting worse. They let one nurse take a month off, so that put us down by 1 nurse. There are six of us in the operating room currently.
For Rosh hashana I kid you not, they let off not only myself but 2 other nurses! So they were down to two nurses on Friday, it must have been insane!
This week we are down two nurses, and two of our nurses only works 12 hour shifts. So that means there is only myself and this one other crazy nurse that works crazy hours. I think she must be on something. I am exhausted after 8 hours! This nurse some how manages to work 20 hours fits.
she is crazy!
When I agreed to take call I did not realize that it meant working a full shift and then having to stay! I one did a 17 hour shift and I barely made it home, and I kid you not they turned around and had to be back at 5 am to open the next day!
I told my boss I am going to burn out so she backed off a little.
Today I was meant to be on call, and I told her at 2 I need to go home and rest. Her response was, you need to be a surgery center nurse not a hospital nurse. I asked a co-worker about another hospital and if they are just as crazy and they said no, but the other hospital has a normal amount of staff.
I am so burning out, I want to call in sick so badly tomorrow but I know we are down to three of us and four rooms. I am so freaking out!
I wanted so badly to be a nurse, but now I hate it. I need my job, but I am afraid if I complain that when I do find another job they will say I am not a team player
Every time they hire another nurse they last only a month, some how I managed to last a year. But the past couple of weeks things have been getting worse. They let one nurse take a month off, so that put us down by 1 nurse. There are six of us in the operating room currently.
For Rosh hashana I kid you not, they let off not only myself but 2 other nurses! So they were down to two nurses on Friday, it must have been insane!
This week we are down two nurses, and two of our nurses only works 12 hour shifts. So that means there is only myself and this one other crazy nurse that works crazy hours. I think she must be on something. I am exhausted after 8 hours! This nurse some how manages to work 20 hours fits.
she is crazy!
When I agreed to take call I did not realize that it meant working a full shift and then having to stay! I one did a 17 hour shift and I barely made it home, and I kid you not they turned around and had to be back at 5 am to open the next day!
I told my boss I am going to burn out so she backed off a little.
Today I was meant to be on call, and I told her at 2 I need to go home and rest. Her response was, you need to be a surgery center nurse not a hospital nurse. I asked a co-worker about another hospital and if they are just as crazy and they said no, but the other hospital has a normal amount of staff.
I am so burning out, I want to call in sick so badly tomorrow but I know we are down to three of us and four rooms. I am so freaking out!
I wanted so badly to be a nurse, but now I hate it. I need my job, but I am afraid if I complain that when I do find another job they will say I am not a team player