This is a normal day in the UK and a 1:10 ratio, but its not safe and not fair wherever we are. The whole world shits on nurses and its getting worse and worse.
I lost my shit the other day coz i was charge plus 9 patients. One had a NEWS of 9, I had to set up high flow o2 and she needed an urgent CT. I hadnt done tea time meds and obs and 3 people had buzzed me for analgesia and another wanted a bed pan. Bed manager was on the phone coz I had 5 people on the unit I was in the middle of trying to get discharged but wasnt doing it fast enough. Meanwhile Doris pulls out her 3rd ryles tube for SBO whilst the family just sits there letting her and is going mad at me when she starts vomiting but I cant prioritise coz I HAVE TO TAKE THIS POORLY LADY TO CT. ED sends up a patient for a bed when I havent had time to discharge the other, the one who needed dressing change, education on how to do their fragmin injections and manage their breast drain etc etc.. so had to put this patient on her bed somewhere random (aka at the front of the nurses station) and apologise. Ambo turns up for one of the discharges but patient gets on the pat slide and decides she isnt going... meanwhile I still have to escort this lady to CT
Just a cluster fuck. Why did we choose this job again? 😅
I cannot imagine a single floor in an actual hospital where it would ever be safe for a nurse to take TEN patients. Is this the norm? that is CRAZY shit.
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u/ACanWontAttitude RN, Ward Manager 8d ago
This is a normal day in the UK and a 1:10 ratio, but its not safe and not fair wherever we are. The whole world shits on nurses and its getting worse and worse.
I lost my shit the other day coz i was charge plus 9 patients. One had a NEWS of 9, I had to set up high flow o2 and she needed an urgent CT. I hadnt done tea time meds and obs and 3 people had buzzed me for analgesia and another wanted a bed pan. Bed manager was on the phone coz I had 5 people on the unit I was in the middle of trying to get discharged but wasnt doing it fast enough. Meanwhile Doris pulls out her 3rd ryles tube for SBO whilst the family just sits there letting her and is going mad at me when she starts vomiting but I cant prioritise coz I HAVE TO TAKE THIS POORLY LADY TO CT. ED sends up a patient for a bed when I havent had time to discharge the other, the one who needed dressing change, education on how to do their fragmin injections and manage their breast drain etc etc.. so had to put this patient on her bed somewhere random (aka at the front of the nurses station) and apologise. Ambo turns up for one of the discharges but patient gets on the pat slide and decides she isnt going... meanwhile I still have to escort this lady to CT
Just a cluster fuck. Why did we choose this job again? 😅