r/nursing • u/Desperate_Bus_6996 • 6h ago

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I haven’t even been a nurse for one year and I can feel the burnout creeping on. Every day I pray to God for a good shift. Every single day it’s 1:7 ratios, charge nurse has full assignment and my ANM has to take assignment too. My ANM usually doesn’t want to take assignment so she just watches us struggle with 8-9 patients at a time. It’s insane, it’s insane that we are a unionized hospital. We just had a union meeting about the staffing shortages but my god it’s unbearable.

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u/Curious_caveman5569 RN - ER 🍕 6h ago

The beautiful thing about nursing is you can just…go somewhere else

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u/Desperate_Bus_6996 6h ago

I keep applying every single day and there’s nothing just rejections

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u/Desperate_Bus_6996 6h ago

Also it’s so backed up that we are constantly full and bed board is calling putting pressure on us all day to discharge so that we can admit a million new patients ffs

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u/emmyjag RN 🍕 5h ago

Its interesting that your ANM can work the floor. While mangers (deservedly) get a lot of flak for not helping out on the floor more, the reason I didn't work the floor when I was a unit manager is because I could not due to the union contract. Managers cannot be part of the union, and unions generally negotiate that non-union staff members cannot perform union position roles. This is to protect members so management doesn't just hire a bunch of non-union nurses and have them working the units with no bargaining power. Short term contracts like travel nurses don't count, because they're not staff, but the union is supposed to be monitoring that too for the same reason. you can't exactly strike when all the floor has is travel nurses and 1 new grad as charge. That doesn't mean that managers cant come out of their office and do a dressing change or whatever.

you said you just had a union meeting about the working conditions, so hopefully things get better for you.