Cry

Another ridiculous assignment, designed and delivered to us by under the rock management. Sorry, I'm just venting after working a 13.75 Hour long shift and dangerously understaffed for the last 5 hours of that.

Cry

Just another stupid shift

Oh, let me tell you why,

Staffing so bad

I could almost cry,

Instead I was cussing

A blue streak and more,

As two going-home patient's

Left their blood on the floor.

One patient was waiting

For a room, all day long,

Thirteen hours on hold

That's one bluesy song,

Filled with hours of pain

Nausea and more,

Praying for some space

On the Oncology floor.

Six patients at 7 pm

Then two of them split,

Now four of them for two of us

But that's just half of it,

One 8 o'clock bleeder

And a sheath-pull at nine,

The other bleeder at 1030

And she was all mine,

With a growing hematoma

And blood-pressure sky high,

Thirty minutes to stop it

And again, I could cry;

Because our night wasn't finished

Finding a room was a chore,

When the bleeder was transferred

We weren't done, there was more,

With duties, like charting

Cleaning and sorting,

Day shift wants a fresh house

Or they will be snorting,

About the things we didn't do

Though we worked so flippin' late,

Lord, if I get laid-off

I will thank my bloody fate!

Fibril_late;

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