Ucky Night
Oct. 16th, 2010 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xhesikaI hate hospitals.
And I work in one.
Fuck my life.
The Nursing Supervisor had me go to the ER last night after I got hit in the throat by a man who was three times my size. After a series of x-rays and questions my trachea was fine and intact, but they suggested I go home and keep ice on it all night with a supply of pain medicine.
Well that's all well and good. I was lucky my throat was numb most of the time. It feels a little tender now, but there's no bruising. The biggest thing was the ache on the lower back of my head, but the pain medicine knocked that out pretty easily. Sleeping with an ice pack tied around your neck is no bueno.
Leaving 26 patients on the floor for one PCA and 4 or 5 RNs (We were grossly understaffed to begin with.). The entire situation it put them in pisses me off. Firstly, if anyone needs to go home who do they call to come in? The two PCAs who were working, and since I went home and the other was swamped, there was no help.
Weighing my options, I'm getting annoyed with nearly every aspect of my job and I know its the floor I work on. The type of pt. and the people I work with. It is not worth getting hurt for.
And I work in one.
Fuck my life.
The Nursing Supervisor had me go to the ER last night after I got hit in the throat by a man who was three times my size. After a series of x-rays and questions my trachea was fine and intact, but they suggested I go home and keep ice on it all night with a supply of pain medicine.
Well that's all well and good. I was lucky my throat was numb most of the time. It feels a little tender now, but there's no bruising. The biggest thing was the ache on the lower back of my head, but the pain medicine knocked that out pretty easily. Sleeping with an ice pack tied around your neck is no bueno.
Leaving 26 patients on the floor for one PCA and 4 or 5 RNs (We were grossly understaffed to begin with.). The entire situation it put them in pisses me off. Firstly, if anyone needs to go home who do they call to come in? The two PCAs who were working, and since I went home and the other was swamped, there was no help.
Weighing my options, I'm getting annoyed with nearly every aspect of my job and I know its the floor I work on. The type of pt. and the people I work with. It is not worth getting hurt for.
