Heres another classic moan by you’re’s truly... not necessarily going to be funny, just a general moan... so read on if you wish....
My ward, [that I'm not going to name, just in-case government operative spies are on FB] is crap. There is poo to clean up, either from a person [which believe me I do not mind in the slightest], obs, feeding or washing. That is the extent of choices with regards to broadening my nursing skills, HCA stuff basically. I've been a HCA; for nearly 2 years; been there done that, don't want to do it all again.
The sister on the ward seems to strongly dislike me. I don't know whether it’s the shaved head or the beard or that she just hates men but something doesn’t smell right, and to be honest it’s not fair and I'm sick of it...
I wanted to do 1 long day on the 18th. ONE, not 300,271 ONE. The staff rarely does long days on the ward, the reason I have not found out, and if I want to keep my testicles I think I'll keep that way. Anyway I sorted my rota, liaising with my co-mentor, who was doing that said LD, so I asked her, do you mind having me on that day, she said no.
I put myself down for it, cleared my shifts with my mentor, and she said I can't do the LD, she asked for a rationale:
1. I'll be 2.5 hours over my needed time, PERFECT
2. My mentor is working the shift
3. My mentor said I am welcome to do it with her
4. I've proven I can do 3 nightshifts in a row
Despite number 4, she seemed oblivious to the fact that she is indeed a big pain in my arse. The 4 reasons above seem incredibly solid, she wouldn't even tell me why not, she simply said, no that’s not allowed, the reasons are not enough, and thus it will either be a late or an early.
Any Whoo, thought that was all fine, ok I'll be 7.5 hours under and will have to do an extra shift next placement to make up for it, no problem considering I just want to leave as soon as possible.
She changed my shift. I went in today and got asked where I was yesterday, I said, "In bed", "Well why were you there? You were on the rota", This was news to me... seeing how I sorted my shifts and had the hours in my diary that was a mere 4inchs away from my hand... looked in my diary, I am correct they are wrong, I was supposed to be on today, not yesterday. She changed my shift, didn’t email me, didn’t contact kings to get my telephone number, nothing; and even if she had emailed, she would have left 14 hours between shifts, considering I don't check my KCL email that often, would have been moronic....
She apparently didn’t notice, they were 'very' busy yesterday anyway, so it didn't matter. Busy? Ok... try going to a ward with 4 trachy patients 3 of which needing a 5 man log roll team with 3 buzzing at the same time and still having the other 32 patients to think about.... how’s that for busy?
Never mind, I did a shift, so who cares eh?
Yes I did a shift today instead of yesterday, I was working with a really nice lady, had awesome patients today, all talking and walking and really welcoming.
Long story short, day was fine, I was on an early. It got to 2pm and I was supposed to meet Andy for lunch, we started washing a patient, washed, dressed, padded, hoisted and smiling my patient was as happy as the happiest thing in the world (give me a break on the descriptions)....
We moved the bed back down, to a safe height, because it was high for my backs sake, as the bed went down, it clipped a plastic pipe, this plastic pipe was a waste pipe, it came unhooked, and musky water, and faeces went everywhere.... that’s right, I spilt lots of poo all over the floor....
When my mentor comes back in she's going to hate me even more....
Get me out of here.
Beam me up or something....
