Uncharted territory
When you work a difficult shift down one nurse…
In the early morning, you work hard to save someone: a code transfusion.
You later get called into the manager’s office, you think to be thanked for your hard work. Instead, she questions you on your charting. She continues to ask lines of questions, asking if you were even present at the event!
It takes a hard-working team to run a code transfusion. Every nurse pitching in. One to take telephone orders (why is the doctor not at the bedside?!) Another four to hang blood, set up and run the level 1 infuser, changing out the blood. Every unit scanned and cross-checked. Medications given and someone to record.
When you’re short, which step will be missed? Most likely the recording because patient care and life comes first!
To a manager, if it’s not charted, it didn’t happen, and if others are helping you, the question if you were even present! The insanity! A nurse works hard to save lives every hour of the day.
Shame!
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