Cold day only 13 degrees at top. We are nesting with the heater and Company a musical by Stephan Sondheim. It is so funny and clever. Last night we went to see Madame Butterfly by the Australian Operas travelling company it was wonderful and really cheap for an opera. We are seeing some great shows this year.
Not working till tomorrow night. We had a chat to the supervisor last week it sounds even scarier in the general wards, no staff. I didnt know they were down to ains on the wards. She said she had very junior registered nurse an enrolled nurse and an assistant in nursing for 20 or so patients on one ward. I said I'd be going home, she said that you cant leave the patients but I'd be too frightened to stay. Nobody ever listens about staffing when things go wrong they just find the most powerless person to blame and thats some poor ward RN. I wonder how many nurses just get too scared to work in the wards. They have a team of ICU nurses that we can call when there are problems on the wards, trying to prevent the bounce backs to ICU. At least you have someone to ask. We had lady with a PICC line in which most us had not a clue about last week. Finally diagnosed with MRSA in her caesar wound. So there she is sitting in maternity, we hate dirty wounds there because of the babies but no on cares anymore.
I read that in WA they are dealing with MRSA a lot better, here its just a mess they dont do anything about it, one of the girls rang the infection control person to ask her to look at the wound cause we'd never seen any thing like it but she said she didnt deal with patients only infections!
I only go to work for the laughs.