Work

I know that ugly four letter word! I have been a little stressed about work lately to say the least. I work at the hospital as a cna and even though I am full time sometimes I don't get full time. I work on the rehab unit and like every other unit in the hospital there are timew when there is to many staff and not enough patients. In times like that a few things can happen. 1) you get called off, 2) worst yet you get put on "stand-by", 3) the worst of all you get "FLOATED". This past week end my days to work on Saturday I got put on "stand-by" now what is bad about stand by is you can't leave to go do anything because you are on stand-by of which the hospital can call you at anytime to say you are needed to come in to work. So you sit by you phone hoping it doesn't ring, but at the same time you are so stressed out that it might ring and you are waiting up most of the night. On Saturday they never called. Sunday I was floated to surg/otho which I hate with a passion. The only good thing about floating down there is the time went by really fast. Monday night I was put on stand-by again and again was not called in. Well on Tuesday I was hoping for the call off, But NOOOOO I had to float AGAIN! Only this time it wasn't to bad because I only had to sit with one patient. Oh that is another thing 4) sitter! I sat with a sweet little lady who was confused and was just busy! She was very sweet but most of the time I couldn't understand what she was saying, but just agreed with her and we got along just fine! In rehab yesterday we had two patients, but tonight there will only be 1 patient and than that patient is leaving on Friday. So even though it is my days off I will be stressing about Saturday and what my fate will be. I am going to try not to stress about it and try to enjoy my days off and pray that we get some admits so we all can work on our little unit and not have to float or what ever. Maybe I will have to go and buy me some CHOCOLATE that always makes me feel better for a while anyway!!