Yargh! Okay, I have my bad days every now and again, I'll admit, and today is no exception. One of the lad aides is sick, so I've been collecting and going to ER to do the collections since 2 pm. It's now 4 pm, and it's been the most annoying 2 hours EVER. I'll just get back from emerg, and they'll phone again to get me to come bakc to draw blood. They saw me walking out the door. They know I'm leaving. Why not stop me before I leave ot save time? But noooo, they let me leave and then call to get me to come back again.
And bloody hell, if that nurse in emerg checks on me while I'm collecting and rolls her eyes at me one more time, I swear I'm gonna punt HER through a plate glass window. She's small enough, and I have enough rage that I think I could actually do it right now. Yargh! Okay, so I missed one patient. Fine. It happens. But then she has to get me to stand there, while she gets ready, and then we go back to the patient, 'cause we're gonna get that blood come hell or high water. According to her, anyway. She doesn't care that I'm only actually allowed to poke the patient twice, and she doesn't really seem to care that I don't want to do it again, because I know if I've already missed twice, I'm gonna miss again. That's just the way I work. SO back to the patient we go, and she starts manhandling this poor lady that's been vomiting so bad she actually came to emerg. And you know it's bad vomiting if they come to emerg because of it. So she's feeling around on this patient, and she asks me where I tried. Both arms, I said. So she grabs a hand. Hand veins ae seriously painful, and rarely work very well, and generally you end up bruising the patient pretty bad. But a hand vein it is. So she's in there with the needle and it's just not coming. Oh, the incompetent lab tech screwed up again. So finally she weilds the needle and gets soemthing. Well, it's barely moving and a HUGE blood blister's forming on this lady's hand. Plus she's groaning 'cause it hurts like hell, but we're getting blood, so the nurse is VERY pleased with herself.
So I'm in with another patient, and I miss twice again. Big surprise. I'm sucking today, what more do you want? And as I'm leaving I hear them talking "oh, maybe we should send (insert nurse's name here) in with her to help again". Okay, if your nurse can get the blood and I'm so incompetent I need help to get any blood from anyone, why do you phone me in the first place? Do it your freakin' self! And don't tell me how to do my job! Yes, I can get blood, but not under these poor conditions, with everybody and their dog telling me what to do and checking up on me very 5 minutes to see if I'm doing my job right (despite the fact that they don't really know what my job is to be able to tell if I'm doing it right). Oh, and by the way, this isn't my job. It's a lab aide's job, but they're all sick or don't want to work 'cause of the condtions here, caused mostly by your "friendly" emerg staff.
So stop rolling your eyes at me like I'm incompetent and I don't know what I'm doing. I do know what I'm doing, it's just hard to work when everyone's looking over your shoulder and you're already having a bad day. And beware emerg nurse, 'cause there are PLENTY of plate glass windows here at the hospital.
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heh. Plate glass.
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