Friday, July 10, 2009
Am I going to like being a nurse?
Well, I guess the title says it all, I am a new graduate, have had my nursing license for 1 month and already I am trying to decide is this really for me. I have worked PRN in one nursing home, and am now working in an assisted living facility, although I am okay with being on the floor passing medications and doing tube feeds, I feel like I will never learn all of the paperwork that goes with it, it is ridiculous how much paperwork has to be done on a nightly basis. What I absolutely hate is dealing with the families of the residents. Although I know they are simply concerned about their loved ones, it can be too much to deal with when you have 40-50 other residents that need attention and you have to deal with an irate family member complaining because their mother or father is calling them at work complaining about something that is not related to healthcare matters and they expect the nurse to keep the resident from calling them at work. That was something that really got under my skin, especially as busy as I was, it was shift change, and of course that incident set me back on my med pass for the night among a host of other things. I truly believe it is incidents like this that is one main reason why there is never enough staff. It can be stressful. I guess I will have to learn to deal with it since it comes with the territory. Tommorrow is another day, hopefully a few of the residents will be out of the facility visiting family since it is Saturday. This may be a terrible thing to think since the facililty is their home but at present this is how I feel, so let's wait and see....until tomorrow...........
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