Hello Everyone! Just wanted a bit of insight on this! So I’ve been at a new assignment and besides my two orientation shifts have already been floated to the other unit and have been told that I’ll probably see the unit I was floated to more than the one I was hired for…ok fine…that’s a part of traveling. Well one of the other travelers there let me know her contract is about to end and she was floated for literally every single shift…like I feel that’s excessive but ok if it happens whatever I work here and once contract is up I bounce easy peasy.
My big concern is coming from that fact that my very first day on my own I was floated and given a patient that coded one day prior and was staff assisted twice overnight. I was told they had made some changes on their support and had been completely fine and stable for the day..great except apparently that wasn’t true and the patient was very very very bad overnight. Needless to say from my perspective that was not ok…I did get a lot of help that night which was appreciated but literally had points where the other nurses took over cause they knew this patient better than me and were literally discussing interventions and what to do with the MD completely without me. There was a point we had to call the MD and as I said…first day…so I’m still figuring out their systems so I legit had to have another nurse do it for me…I felt like that was a major risk. Idk, I know we get thrown to the wolves but this feels a bit excessive…should I say something about this?? How normal is something like this?? I’ve been a nurse for awhile but I just feel to give me a patient I’m 100% unfamiliar with that was this critical on my first day alone was just terrible judgement especially knowing there were nurses around who were completely familiar with them…