SweetDommes
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Not from the lifestyle ... but from being a responsible adult. The last week of work has sucked more than any other week of my life that I can remember. Working short almost every night, having a call off that had to be replaced by an RN so that left me to fill in (because no one would answer their damned phone). I thought I was going to have to work over again the next night because one of the other RNs called off (again, at the one and only position that HAS to be an RN, cannot be an LPN or we can't have accredation from the state) - thankfully, that time, the administrators actually did their jobs and filled in. Had someone with an asthma attack in the clinic almost die on us.
And then there was Friday night ... as y'all may or may not know, I work in a county jail as the charge nurse at the main clinic. This means that things happen that would never happen in a hospital - like lock-downs. They were doing some sort of drill on Friday night, starting as soon as 2nd shift (that would be my shift) left. This meant that A) all med passes had to be started by 7:30, B) all med passes had to be finished by 10 (which isn't possible without an extra nurse because one of the carts is actually two floors of inmates - blah), C) we had to move our cars from where we normally park next to the jail to another lot, D) after moving our cars, we couldn't leave the jail until we were relieved by 3rd shift. One of the nurses argued with me about what I had been told by our bosses because she had info from one of the COs that she is dating that didn't quite match up with what I had been told. I explained to her more than once that her source didn't have the same info that I was given, and anyway, it didn't matter because my instructions came from our boss, so that's how it was going to go. She didn't believe me, and apparently mouthed off to someone about it - so the supervisor came and told her word for word what I had already told her (HA! I was right! ... ok, so it's childish, but it irritated me that she had to have it varified by someone else). So, we finish med pass ... and have absolutely nothing to do. I sent 3 of the nurses home, leaving 3 of us to take care of emergencies until 3rd shift came on ... unfortunately, the wrong 3 nurses left, because when we did have an emergency, one of the nurses still there caused some trouble for the CERT team by deciding to do something else with the inmate after I (the charge nurse, mind you) had already said he could go back to his cell. I was incredibly pissed off (as was the CERT team), and had she not already paged the doctor without telling me, I would have told her to go to hell. So, 3rd shift finally shows up, we are escorted out of the building, and I get to walk over to my car - parked 1/2 a block or more away by where our new boy works - and wait out in the wind with sherriffs all over everywhere staring at me because I'm sitting outside of one of the buildings where inmates are housed. I was stuck out there because the boy had my cell phone, and my car keys, so I had no way to get into the car, and I wasn't about to go up to the building with all the sherriffs out there, not to mention the sniper teams up on the roof of the main jail. It was creepy, it was a little scary, and it was incredibly stressful.
So, after all of that, I'm taking a break from being a responsible adult. This is my weekend off (thankfully ... or I would have called off), and so far, the most responsible thing I've done is brush my hair and get dressed in real clothes to go Christmas shopping. Tomorrow ... I'll probably do about the same, only with a bubble bath thrown in.
So, after my rant about how much my life sucks right now (and no, it's not always this bad ... it was just a particularly bad week), what does everyone else do when they are suffering from an overdose of real life?
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