God, I am grateful for this job. I have my bad days like anyone else, but thank you so much for opening up this opportunity for me. I love my job, I love my coworkers and I love that I'm happy now.
Please take my grumbling with a grain of salt. Compared to how I felt when I worked at the hospital, I have nothing to really complain about.
I love this position. I love that I can breathe. I love that I can smile.
THANK YOU GOD. THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!
Friday, February 14, 2014
27 to go
I'm slowly completing the requirements to do my job. I wish I could just work. I'm tired of being in training. I learn better by doing, not watching. It feels like a lot of what I'm reading/observing is going into my brain, dancing a bit and then leaving. I retain some of it, but most of it's not clicking. I'm not a visual learner. I'm more tactile.
I'm just frustrated I guess. Today went well. No real complaints. I just wish things were moving a bit faster.
I'm just frustrated I guess. Today went well. No real complaints. I just wish things were moving a bit faster.
Saturday, January 11, 2014
I need to get this off my chest
My manager had a meeting a while back. It was for the staff to come up with a way for the clerks to alert the nurses of a patient waiting for us in the front of the clinic. The plan was for them to page all the nurse overhead. Which ever nurse wasn't busy would go to the front and take the patient back. It sounded like a great idea at first until I realized that I was the only nurse who ever got up to go see the patient.
Right now it's not that much work because I can't really do an entire case alone. I'm still on training, so another nurse would have to see the patient after I did the initial interview/history, etc. My problem is, wouldn't it be faster and more efficient to for the nurse who would be seeing the patient and treating them to do their history? It takes twice as long for the second nurse to read the questions that I asked, ask the patient everything over again and then decide what to do. At first it was a learning experience because I didn't know how to do the interview. After months of doing the interviews I think I know how to ask a client's history. I try to sit in on the meetings between the other nurse and the patient after the fact, but it doesn't seem to help me at all because I feel like she doesn't know what to ask and she asks me what else to ask. I try to help, but shouldn't she be teaching me and not using me as a way to make her job easier?
I learn by doing. Watching her do everything is like watching paint dry. I don't really retain anything until I'm in there doing it myself.
Back to the point of the over head calling. Why is it that I have to do all the h/v/d, shots, interviews, blood work, etc. I know I'm the new kid on the block, but seriously. Why do I have to do everything when there are two other nurses there doing nothing. The manager is on the phone or is doing paper work all shift. The nurse who I'm supposed to be working with is on the phone talking to her family or in her exam room pretending to look busy. When the clerks call overhead she sits in her room and fiddles around and when I walk by she looks my way and doesn't even attempt to get up.
Why did we have this meeting in the first place when I'm the only nurse who responds to the calls? If I'm the only nurse who is supposed to see the patient just call my room instead. This paging overhead for a nurse is getting on my nerves because it seems like I'm the only nurse in the fucking building who does work or who isn't busy the entire eight hour shift.
One day non of the patients on the schedule came in. We only had flu shots, h/v/d, small stuff like that. No one was busy. It wasn't the end of the month which seems to be the busiest for everyone. The clerks were chatting up front, the other nurses were chatting in their rooms or with other co workers.
When paged over head, the other two nurses are suddenly 'busy' again. Busy doing what? There was nothing to do!!! Help out. Do a shot. I can give a flu shot in my sleep. Why am I the only one responding to pages? URGHHH!!!
I like my job. I really do. My coworkers are amazing. I just wish things were a team effort and I wasn't worked to death because I was new. I know I have a lot to learn, but that doesn't mean they should get to be lazy the entire week because I'm there to pick up the slack.
-deep breath-
I don't know why this bothers me so much, but it does. I just feel like I'm being used and being taken advantage of.
Also, the little back and forth bickering between the staff gets on my nerves too. I'm the youngest person who works there, but I'm the only person who doesn't gossip about someone behind their backs. Are we all in elementary school again?
I heard the nurses arguing with one another one day. The manager was yelling at the other nurse. I just sat in my room and stayed quiet.
I feel like I walked into a train wreck of a business.
Right now it's not that much work because I can't really do an entire case alone. I'm still on training, so another nurse would have to see the patient after I did the initial interview/history, etc. My problem is, wouldn't it be faster and more efficient to for the nurse who would be seeing the patient and treating them to do their history? It takes twice as long for the second nurse to read the questions that I asked, ask the patient everything over again and then decide what to do. At first it was a learning experience because I didn't know how to do the interview. After months of doing the interviews I think I know how to ask a client's history. I try to sit in on the meetings between the other nurse and the patient after the fact, but it doesn't seem to help me at all because I feel like she doesn't know what to ask and she asks me what else to ask. I try to help, but shouldn't she be teaching me and not using me as a way to make her job easier?
I learn by doing. Watching her do everything is like watching paint dry. I don't really retain anything until I'm in there doing it myself.
Back to the point of the over head calling. Why is it that I have to do all the h/v/d, shots, interviews, blood work, etc. I know I'm the new kid on the block, but seriously. Why do I have to do everything when there are two other nurses there doing nothing. The manager is on the phone or is doing paper work all shift. The nurse who I'm supposed to be working with is on the phone talking to her family or in her exam room pretending to look busy. When the clerks call overhead she sits in her room and fiddles around and when I walk by she looks my way and doesn't even attempt to get up.
Why did we have this meeting in the first place when I'm the only nurse who responds to the calls? If I'm the only nurse who is supposed to see the patient just call my room instead. This paging overhead for a nurse is getting on my nerves because it seems like I'm the only nurse in the fucking building who does work or who isn't busy the entire eight hour shift.
One day non of the patients on the schedule came in. We only had flu shots, h/v/d, small stuff like that. No one was busy. It wasn't the end of the month which seems to be the busiest for everyone. The clerks were chatting up front, the other nurses were chatting in their rooms or with other co workers.
When paged over head, the other two nurses are suddenly 'busy' again. Busy doing what? There was nothing to do!!! Help out. Do a shot. I can give a flu shot in my sleep. Why am I the only one responding to pages? URGHHH!!!
I like my job. I really do. My coworkers are amazing. I just wish things were a team effort and I wasn't worked to death because I was new. I know I have a lot to learn, but that doesn't mean they should get to be lazy the entire week because I'm there to pick up the slack.
-deep breath-
I don't know why this bothers me so much, but it does. I just feel like I'm being used and being taken advantage of.
Also, the little back and forth bickering between the staff gets on my nerves too. I'm the youngest person who works there, but I'm the only person who doesn't gossip about someone behind their backs. Are we all in elementary school again?
I heard the nurses arguing with one another one day. The manager was yelling at the other nurse. I just sat in my room and stayed quiet.
I feel like I walked into a train wreck of a business.
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