#lifeproblems

Look at this unholy goober. I'm not really that happy irl.

So I got a text message. Its still vague on the details. Saying that the plan is to decompress our ER by building a new ICU out of our surgery department. Which Ive heard sister hospitals say as well. So the insinuation is we have to staff it..I mean who else is going to.

Yesterday we had 20 icu patients in our ER holding for a room in an icu. Nowhere to go in the state. My hospitals icu is only 5 beds. That 20th patient in the ER is gonna have to wait for 24 patients to die or something before they can get a bed.

All nursing staff is overwhelmed. Nobody wants to work outside their general scope. I don't want to work outside my general scope.

Frankly I just want my regular job. I have my regular job for a reason. Theres a reason I don't work with sick people and its scary that you could be assigned the sick of the sick when you don't know how to work with them. I could probably finagle a single icu patient some how, with help..but its never just a single icu patient is it? its always "oh you're here, take more than a full load, we are desperate" and thats when things get missed. When you don't know what certain medication does or how to use it, the inexperienced accidentally misses things. You don't want to have to explain to a doctor or patient family member why you missed things.

anyway, over this covid shenanigans.