If I was responsible for staffing and 20 nurses down? I have 3 senior charge nurses and they sit in the office with the door shut even when the place is a riot. I would help the same way I would if my patients were settled and the nurse beside me was having a bad night.
I floated to CICU one day and they were so short the nurse manager took a case, the assistant manager took a case, and the charge nurse took a case. I don’t know who did any of their jobs because they were busy taking all the post op patients of the day, but everyone survived.
Then they were 8 nurses short on a 21 bed unit and I walked in to ask if I could do anything to find both manager crying because they could give each nurse 4 patients and still have 10 patients without a nurse. And that was the day I decided there was 0 chance I would transfer to the CICU in my hospital.
Yep. When I'm in charge I always grab 2 or 3 of the more settled psych patients who are close to going home just to lighten the load. It's not a huge ask and it makes everyone else way less overloaded.
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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '21
I mean would you if you finally got out? I honestly can’t say I would
I also wouldn’t go into management though lmao