The staff are assigned different roles and different patients. Not every staff has the license to practice nursing or to be a doctor. While one nurses and techs team might be busy, another's team might be content and slow. Doesn't mean that a slow period is reflective of the whole shift. I'm an RN on the Medical floor and we've had irate family members come to the desk and complain about their family member needing help and we are all just sitting there yet they don't realize I've been managing 6-7 patients of my own and nobody from that patients team has reached out to any other team for help, so while I've been efficient with my time and worked hard to get my stuff done and how dare I sit down to chart for 20 minutes cuz that's just laziness to lay people. If you don't know how a hospital unit is actually ran then don't talk smack. Workloads come in waves and usually places work with skeleton crews and there's lots of turnovers everywhere cuz everywhere sucks to work. Family is always hateful, the old people are always hateful and then you get people getting mad at you when you're not the one that makes the stupid rules and if you don't enforce them you will get canned and open yourself up to all kinds of legal lawsuits
This is the truth, everyone is compartmentalized and intervening in someone elses assignment is usually not appreciated or worse. I'm concerned that you've been on a medical floor too long, though. Try to move to surgery or something.
My life is going through a really rough patch and im hyper sensitive. My thyroid level is low and I have no energy and they just got me on a new dose (had it taken out recently). My gallbladder bisnbad and has been causing me pain for months and I get it out on Jan 5th. I have a thoracic back hernia causing me pain for the last 7 years that nothing has worked on and I had been doing ok on pain management meds and had been walking a few miles a couple days a week then earlier this year the pain shot up and I can barely make it through my job and my activity level has gone to nothing. An epidural lasted 2 weeks of a breather then it was back to the marathon. I'm going across state at the end of the month to plead a doc to operate on me. A week ago my wife had an ectopic pregnancy and her fallopian tube ruptured and she came very close to dying. I'm supposed to be the one taking care of her now and our kids, but moving is painful and life is like a nightmare I can't wake up from. I suffer from depression too and am on meds for it and my mind goes on quite the roller coaster ride at any given point throughout the day and I've been quite erratic. I'm hoping this next year goes better.
Good heavens. You must be tough to have gotten through so much. So much pain causes depression regardless of other factors and between the two it's easy to get hooked on meds and add another problem. I hope you can find someone to help you sort things out and get your footing. God bless.
edit: And seriously, medical floors are frustrating and depressing. In view of your back pain, you might think about working in an office or something.
Uh sounds to me like you're in the wrong profession. Being an RN means you're supposed to help people and oh, NURSE people. So if some family member comes up to you and needs help, then you should help them and that means finding them help, even if they're not your assigned patient. Otherwise, why are you there? You're everything that's wrong with the medical profession.
I called the patients nurse and let them know the family member was really mad about them needing to go to the bathroom. We do find help, but typically the patient won't have used the call light and will have just told the cleaning lady or the wrong staff what they want and then get all mad when nothing gets done and instead of speaking up sooner again they wait til they are fuming before they say anything else and it makes much ado about something that could've been avoided so easily.
One time a family member told the tech they wanted wanted an x-ray update on their family member, the tech told me, and I was doing my job and helping my patients and in a great mood. When I was done with what I was doing, I went to the room and the family member then started immediately yelling at me about how long she had been waiting. It was only 20 minutes.
Older people can be nice and sweet, but some lose the patience they had in their earlier years and they get stuck in their routine and being in the hospital gets them out of that routine so they are unhappy and mad and you're the one they take all their frustration out on.
Medical staff needs their downtime for charting and to mentally and physically recharge. Burnout is a huge problem in the profession. People assume the staff is just sitting there doing nothing and is therefore just lazy, and it's ridiculous.
I do my best to take care of my patients, and how dare I get mad when some random guy starts yelling at me for a patient that's not even mine. There's no downtime to destress and then you have to deal with verbal abuse coming from patients and more commonly family members. Before I left work last night I consoled one of the secretaries who was crying because a family member had yelled at her over a purse and she had no clue who the patient was or control about it. That's not the first time she's been yelled at by family recently and she's applied for a job elsewhere.
It's easy to judge us all as being horrible people, but the system sucks and needs an overhaul. The people at the top in administration screw us over with staffing and it burns us out and makes it rougher on our patients. I do I best I can, but we hire quite a few bums out of school and management wants us all to help them, but they can't even do the basics and are perpetually behind. When they work I'm picking up the slack and teaching them basic stuff that could save some people's lives like don't shoot the cathflo you put in a picc line into the patient after it's done, but to pull it out in some blood and discard it. A nurse screwed up like that months ago and almost killed someone cuz our training sucks and we don't hire good GNs and so while I may be everything wrong with nursing I'm the one telling people that this guy has cold antibodies for his blood and needs it warmed up or else you risk a rejection reaction, and the night nurse goes oh really, the last time they gave it to him without warming it up, even though the warmers been in his room for weeks.
Like I said earlier, you choose a profession to console and help NURSE and heal people. If you didn't know that people would be upset when their family member is in pain, under duress, scared, at one of their worst times in their life, that's not anyone's problem but your own. It comes with the territory. Either develop thick skin and realize it's part of your job or don't and find another profession.
She could helpfully help an unknown patient and make them worse because she doesn't know some important detail, even about something that seems as simple as getting a demented 200 lb person with two IVs to the bathroom. Also, she would then be taking time from her own. Getting the responsible person to do the job and/or changing the way work is divided is a safer solution for everyone.
The staff are assigned different roles and different patients. Not every staff has the license to practice nursing or to be a doctor. While one nurses and techs team might be busy, another's team might be content and slow. Doesn't mean that a slow period is reflective of the whole shift. I'm an RN on the Medical floor and we've had irate family members come to the desk and complain about their family member needing help and we are all just sitting there yet they don't realize I've been managing 6-7 patients of my own and nobody from that patients team has reached out to any other team for help, so while I've been efficient with my time and worked hard to get my stuff done and how dare I sit down to chart for 20 minutes cuz that's just laziness to lay people. If you don't know how a hospital unit is actually ran then don't talk smack. Workloads come in waves and usually places work with skeleton crews and there's lots of turnovers everywhere cuz everywhere sucks to work. Family is always hateful, the old people are always hateful and then you get people getting mad at you when you're not the one that makes the stupid rules and if you don't enforce them you will get canned and open yourself up to all kinds of legal lawsuits
This is the truth, everyone is compartmentalized and intervening in someone elses assignment is usually not appreciated or worse. I'm concerned that you've been on a medical floor too long, though. Try to move to surgery or something.
My life is going through a really rough patch and im hyper sensitive. My thyroid level is low and I have no energy and they just got me on a new dose (had it taken out recently). My gallbladder bisnbad and has been causing me pain for months and I get it out on Jan 5th. I have a thoracic back hernia causing me pain for the last 7 years that nothing has worked on and I had been doing ok on pain management meds and had been walking a few miles a couple days a week then earlier this year the pain shot up and I can barely make it through my job and my activity level has gone to nothing. An epidural lasted 2 weeks of a breather then it was back to the marathon. I'm going across state at the end of the month to plead a doc to operate on me. A week ago my wife had an ectopic pregnancy and her fallopian tube ruptured and she came very close to dying. I'm supposed to be the one taking care of her now and our kids, but moving is painful and life is like a nightmare I can't wake up from. I suffer from depression too and am on meds for it and my mind goes on quite the roller coaster ride at any given point throughout the day and I've been quite erratic. I'm hoping this next year goes better.
Good heavens. You must be tough to have gotten through so much. So much pain causes depression regardless of other factors and between the two it's easy to get hooked on meds and add another problem. I hope you can find someone to help you sort things out and get your footing. God bless.
edit: And seriously, medical floors are frustrating and depressing. In view of your back pain, you might think about working in an office or something.
Uh sounds to me like you're in the wrong profession. Being an RN means you're supposed to help people and oh, NURSE people. So if some family member comes up to you and needs help, then you should help them and that means finding them help, even if they're not your assigned patient. Otherwise, why are you there? You're everything that's wrong with the medical profession.
I called the patients nurse and let them know the family member was really mad about them needing to go to the bathroom. We do find help, but typically the patient won't have used the call light and will have just told the cleaning lady or the wrong staff what they want and then get all mad when nothing gets done and instead of speaking up sooner again they wait til they are fuming before they say anything else and it makes much ado about something that could've been avoided so easily.
One time a family member told the tech they wanted wanted an x-ray update on their family member, the tech told me, and I was doing my job and helping my patients and in a great mood. When I was done with what I was doing, I went to the room and the family member then started immediately yelling at me about how long she had been waiting. It was only 20 minutes.
Older people can be nice and sweet, but some lose the patience they had in their earlier years and they get stuck in their routine and being in the hospital gets them out of that routine so they are unhappy and mad and you're the one they take all their frustration out on.
Medical staff needs their downtime for charting and to mentally and physically recharge. Burnout is a huge problem in the profession. People assume the staff is just sitting there doing nothing and is therefore just lazy, and it's ridiculous.
I do my best to take care of my patients, and how dare I get mad when some random guy starts yelling at me for a patient that's not even mine. There's no downtime to destress and then you have to deal with verbal abuse coming from patients and more commonly family members. Before I left work last night I consoled one of the secretaries who was crying because a family member had yelled at her over a purse and she had no clue who the patient was or control about it. That's not the first time she's been yelled at by family recently and she's applied for a job elsewhere.
It's easy to judge us all as being horrible people, but the system sucks and needs an overhaul. The people at the top in administration screw us over with staffing and it burns us out and makes it rougher on our patients. I do I best I can, but we hire quite a few bums out of school and management wants us all to help them, but they can't even do the basics and are perpetually behind. When they work I'm picking up the slack and teaching them basic stuff that could save some people's lives like don't shoot the cathflo you put in a picc line into the patient after it's done, but to pull it out in some blood and discard it. A nurse screwed up like that months ago and almost killed someone cuz our training sucks and we don't hire good GNs and so while I may be everything wrong with nursing I'm the one telling people that this guy has cold antibodies for his blood and needs it warmed up or else you risk a rejection reaction, and the night nurse goes oh really, the last time they gave it to him without warming it up, even though the warmers been in his room for weeks.
Like I said earlier, you choose a profession to console and help NURSE and heal people. If you didn't know that people would be upset when their family member is in pain, under duress, scared, at one of their worst times in their life, that's not anyone's problem but your own. It comes with the territory. Either develop thick skin and realize it's part of your job or don't and find another profession.
She could helpfully help an unknown patient and make them worse because she doesn't know some important detail, even about something that seems as simple as getting a demented 200 lb person with two IVs to the bathroom. Also, she would then be taking time from her own. Getting the responsible person to do the job and/or changing the way work is divided is a safer solution for everyone.