Its cold and rainy which matches everyones mood, all cranky and upset. Everyones at work except me I am on night duty and have to have a sleep soon. Its the long night tonight daylight saving ending so we work an extra hour for no extra pay on the grounds that on the short night we dont get docked an hour, we are going to have a sleep through, mostly I never seem to be on the short night. That is if it isnt too busy.
We have a flexi bed thing going in our ward. Its staffed for 21 beds but then we open more beds and supposed to get more staff and then they open another two beds. This morning all the beds were full, then someone rang in sick and we couldnt find someone. So day shift were working one down and hoping to find someone, this happening shift after shift a patchworks of shifts, sometimes bits of shifts and short for part of a shift. I really hate going there because you never know if there will be any staff and what they will be, lots of ENs and you dont know what they know. I always get the supervisor to approve the mess because if anything happens I dont want to wear the trouble. Then you spend 1/2 the shift looking for someone for next shift. I think the system thought casual people was the answer to their staffing money problems. I dont think anyone cares at the top because its cheap if they just leave you to cope, so I have my private policy which is to look after the mums and babies ok and stuff the paperwork and extra duty crap. Anything I think is rubbish I dont do, I keep expecting to hear abou stuff I hadnt filled in etc but no one mentions it, they dont really care and everyone is in the same position. Patients have pages and pages of stuff to fill in but hardly any one fills it all in.
Better go have a sleep.