Venting out..

RN working in surgical unit.. 10 patients to care of in a shift.. was a busy shift with admissions and poorly patient. Managed to do most of my jobs with help of my colleague, she was really helpful.. literally, I didn’t get time to even sit down for a 5 mins apart from my breaktime.. and in the morning, the trauma coordinator, the person who coordinates the patients for surgery, I don’t know if any other hospital has got this particular post. So this person visits the pre op patients in the morning, making sure that paperworks are completed before surgery. This trauma coordinator came to my bay, I was still busy with my work, calls to to the trolley where patient folders are kept, and tells me off for having some extra papers on the trolley top, saying that it’s a mess there. And the funniest part, those papers were kept there by doctors and I didn’t even get time to even go to the trolley. This happens at 6.45 am, makes me feel so bad and I was so tired and exhausted that I couldn’t even say a word to that trauma coordinator.

And to worsen the situation, doctor prescribes blood transfusion at 7am. My colleague and me works together again to order the blood and to start the transfusion before our shift finishes. The day staff walks out of handover room at 7.30am, blood arrives at 7.33am. And so obviously I hand it over to the day staff, who didn’t even bother to receive it from me. So I had to take it to the day incharge and hand it over, who was clearly not happy to take it from me.

All these at the end of a very busy shift, and all I could do was cry i my car on my way back home..