I am just physically and mentally drained after working these last several weeks. I mean, seriously, it is busy - non-stop! We've had several nurses resign in the past few months. Have we filled those positions? Nope. Six nurses gone, with one new hire. NOT ENOUGH!
We are not only full to the brim with a wide variety of patients and acuities, but we are also chronically short staffed with nurses. Management has been working (literally, they're working on the unit as staff nurses!) to fill in the holes in the staffing, but it's still not enough.
When will they ever get it? We need more nurses! Not more changes to the silly rules. Not some weak gestures of bags of chips as a token of your "thanks" to how hard we're working.
The annual review by the unit manager of addressing our current needs was full of bullshit. Not once, in the entire list of areas that need improvement, was there a word at all about hiring more nurses.
Yes management - wake up! WE NEED MORE STAFF NURSES ON EACH SHIFT! Things are becoming unsafe for the pregnant women we are caring for. You bet your bottom that I am writing incidents up to Risk Management when things go wrong.
How about a correlation of the recent increase in staff who have back injuries, neck injuries, and knee injuries related to constant wear and tear on our bodies from floor nursing? Has that even been addressed?
I am just thoroughly disgusted by how poor the morale is on my unit. We are an awesome crew of nurses. Let's hope that management finally sees the light and fixes our ongoing problems with staffing before even more nurses leave or are injured on the job.
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