#rn bsn

It’s weird... I feel almost empty, like I’m missing a limb or something.

I feel like there’s something I should be doing... studying...reading...taking notes...homework... but there’s nothing due. No class tomorrow to prepare for. I’m...I’m done. It doesn’t even feel real. I don’t think it will until Saturday when I’m officially recognized as a nursing school alumni.

So we recently got a new ICU manager. (Basically the last one got sick of administration and went back to bedside, can’t blame her at all at my hospital.)

He came from within the organization, but from a different hospital in the system. (And we’re basically the red-headed stepchild of the system, holiday pay is terrible, no weekend differentials, equipment is old, matrixes are terrible, etc, etc) And he seems nice or whatever, but basically he's been asking us what we need, and we’ve all been stating that triples need to be removed from the matrix, and we need to hire more staff, stop letting our CNAs get pulled off the floor, everyone’s overworked and not getting lunch breaks, etc. Mainly our biggest concern is patient safety!

FOR SOME STRANGE REASON this guy puts this stupid TV as one of his first priorities. I mean, he’s been working so diligently on getting us a TV in the break room, they have to run wires, move bulletin boards, pay for the large flat screen from the budget. So “you all can enjoy your much deserved breaks.”

I’m sorry, what? What lunch break are we taking when everyone is tripled, and the charge nurse has a fresh 1:1 open heart that she can’t leave their bedside? I honestly rarely spend more than 5 minutes in the break room at any given point in time (unless I get there early for my shift and camp out till report time.)

We’ve all been talking amongst ourselves and no one can figure out where or who gave him the idea we even needed a TV?