How do you refuse report?
I'm a newer nurse, and as of late work has been feeling increasingly more dangerous. We are severely understaffed, we were understaffed to start with, but six or seven people have quit and census is higher than it has ever been.
I've watched day shift come in and there's only been two nurses on the floor, so they are lucky enough to get nine patients a piece until they can get someone else in to help.
There are no techs, and they are expecting you to do primary Care on six medical telemetry people. We don't have an ICU so if someone does start going down the drain, you just have to handle the ICU patient until transport arrives.
I'm sure I'm just being a baby, but I can't safely take care six people while doing primary Care. I can't have two dementia patients trying to crawl out of bed all night, a CBI running wide open, then the three more stable patients to completely neglect, sorry about your pressure ulcers, they are coming your way.
I've genuinely never really worried about losing my license until the last couple of weeks, but I feel like I could and there's no way I'm going to come into work and willingly accept nine patients primary Care, because I work night shift, there is no one else to come in.
Please, I know it seems like I'm being dramatic and this is probably the norm everywhere, but I don't want to do it.
I just want to know how I can refuse to take report without being reported to the nursing board for abandonment.