After doing charge nurse in the ER for the last 2 nights I am done with people! Oddly enough I held it together though, UNTIL... a coworker told me that I needed to be careful not to flood someone because they are a good nurse and that's how we lose good nurses.....
REALLY???????
I had emergency traffics down the hall and more coming in. I had to rush patients out of trauma rooms that were intubated so we could intubate more. I tried my hardest to make a bad situation better and thought I was keeping it together until this was said to me. It was the famous "straw" that has broken several camels' backs. I was down one if the halls trying to get a patient moved for the nurse so she wouldn't be bothered with it. ( the nurse that this person was speaking of in the first place). I called the psych suite to give report and I could not speak. I was so upset that I just squeaked. The psych nurse on the other line was confused by my inability to talk and I said that I would just come back there for report . As soon as my body got into the suites class box (nurses area) the tears started flowing. She quickly understood my release (I think it was a psych nurse thing) and offered me chocolate. I took a deep breath in and suddenly felt better to be able to get it off my back. I owe that psych nurse my sanity for the rest of the night because I was ready to just go home after that.
I realized that even when we are feeling good about how we are doing things, there will always be someone there to let us know where we are failing on some aspect. We can either allow these fault finders to get to us or we can run to the psych suite, eat a little chocolate, and carry on.
Or, you can ignore them and go about your business! Remember that no one understands that job until they do it! Also, if we didn't think you were capable, you wouldn't be doing it! :-)
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