according to the system, we are well loaded with staffing.... meaning the ICU is well staffs and to other department can mean we are over-staffs....definitions is depending where you works!
i do realise after i came back from my short break that in each shift there is extra staff and i don't agree that the "extra" is consider as part of the staffing as they are new and of course can't take the case on their own,, now only buddy with the current staffs 1st...
no such things as if you can work in General Ward you can work in ICU.... totally different requirement and skills needed....
need Quality staff not just Quantity staff in ICU...
over the weekend, there is no Nurse Manager or Nurse Clinician around and few wards need call up asking for deployment as the computer system show that our patients quota is on low side compared to the previous weeks..
and is still a "norm" for a few particular ward that regular high MC on weekends and constantly asking for staffing..... it reflect so much on the staff and ward's management....
i didn't grant any deployment as i rather ask my colleagues to clear their PHs that been holding back since January and February...
when that ICU was full and fill with ill and shortage of staffs, everyone work very hard to support each other and make sure the patients was well taken care and priority of patients comes first and now the quota is low, is the time the staffs spend the time on themselves and family or loved ones.....
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
March school Holiday!
lot of things have happen since January and I still asking myself WHY??
been to friend's place for dinner as everyone is quite tied down with work and couldn't make up where to have a good dinner and the laughing will not disturb other diners.....
was a good home-cooked foods and lot of wine but not for me as i went after a hectic morning shift....... drinking wine will just make me more sleepy and might fallen asleep in cab on my way home, which is really not a good choice, drank lot of OJ!
soon i realised on that table where all of us get to know each other in the previous ICU and now only left me working in ICU, all have left clinical except me...... research, admin, teaching and non nursing related job........ hmmmmm...........am i ok??
beside the host's great food, we brought a Cedele's carrot cake ....... was a good one and everyone was enjoying the cake......... wanted to get a cheesecake but someone in the dinner don't really enjoy cheese
was been ask, what is my plan?? to be honest, i not really think much of it and i know is a bad planning...... of course not staying here for long as my idea and management doesn't go hand-in-hand........
the next rotation of posting is coming and wonder who is "moving" out?? with the huge amount of in flow of new staffs will cause few of middle senior staffs to be "move" out....
those extreme senior "senior" staffs will never be "move".................
change is good..... that what we are been told of but the process is a scarring feeling.....
must have strong adaptation skills......
nothing is forever.......
will never know if the "new" is suitable until we try it.........
been to friend's place for dinner as everyone is quite tied down with work and couldn't make up where to have a good dinner and the laughing will not disturb other diners.....
was a good home-cooked foods and lot of wine but not for me as i went after a hectic morning shift....... drinking wine will just make me more sleepy and might fallen asleep in cab on my way home, which is really not a good choice, drank lot of OJ!
soon i realised on that table where all of us get to know each other in the previous ICU and now only left me working in ICU, all have left clinical except me...... research, admin, teaching and non nursing related job........ hmmmmm...........am i ok??
beside the host's great food, we brought a Cedele's carrot cake ....... was a good one and everyone was enjoying the cake......... wanted to get a cheesecake but someone in the dinner don't really enjoy cheese
was been ask, what is my plan?? to be honest, i not really think much of it and i know is a bad planning...... of course not staying here for long as my idea and management doesn't go hand-in-hand........
the next rotation of posting is coming and wonder who is "moving" out?? with the huge amount of in flow of new staffs will cause few of middle senior staffs to be "move" out....
those extreme senior "senior" staffs will never be "move".................
change is good..... that what we are been told of but the process is a scarring feeling.....
must have strong adaptation skills......
nothing is forever.......
will never know if the "new" is suitable until we try it.........
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