Imagine walking in to your work place, you have been assign a unit to work in, depending on the staff availability there might be 2 to 3 people to a unit. Each person is assign a nurse to work with and when one tech goes on break the other have to cover that section as well. The nigh is starting fine but all of the sudden you find yourself in both section being pulled left and right working. Then finally you stop to look around and there you are the only tech in the unit. With the line of job that you are in when you are ask to do something you cannot say no because you are dealing with patient who are in need of medical assistance. At time you find yourself being on your feet all night with no time to even catch your breath.
All of the sudden
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When I first transferred into the emergency room I was ecstatic, because I love emergency medicine and before I started my new career I wanted to make sure that I did get a chance to work in that department so that I will have no regrets in my transition. I am not a naïve person, I know that no matter where you go each departments will have their imperfections. During my training it seems that all of the Ed Techs were cohesive group that works together for a common purpose, which is the health and safety of the patients. Well I was in for a rude awakening, upon completion of my training, my first night on my own, I did not know that I was literally going to be on my own.
I was basically on the floor by my self-running around like a chicken whose head have been cut off. I work the night shift and the last time I saw the tech that I was working with was around midnight. From midnight until 3 in the morning I literally never sat down, I was assisting patients left and right in my section as well as my partners section, at one point I even got in trouble because I had so many beds in my section that were not made. As a result my first night in my new department I appear as if I was incompetent of doing my job to the best of my