Vent it out!

NURSING AUDIT:

"A review of the patient record designed to identify, examine, or verify the performance of certain specified aspects of nursing care by using established criteria"

Today was my Ward Internal Nursing Audit. Results? FAILED

The Brother's face was black as charcoal. He mention and I quote "Where should I hide my face?" I was so angry beyond words. I remained calm and swallowed all the anger and waited for the perfect timing to vent later.

What did we failed? We failed on the ETT care. 1 component, and it was a minor fail. We pass the rest of the component though. But, he did not acknowlegde that nor praise us on that. Instead he harp on the failure and even wanted some staffs to work extra hours just to check the case notes and such.

What is the thing that makes me most angry? Its that the Nursing Officers just orders the staffs to do everything. Then when things goes wrong, they blame us. They have absolutely no right to get mad! In the first place, if he had diligently check the documentations before the audit, we would had pass. But NO! Its only when Audit is around the corner then people would start checking notes and blaming staffs.

Life as a KIV SNs is so hard. Pressure is forever there. We have to handle our own colleagues, boss, patients and their relative. Im so tired - I keep telling myself if I can survived 7Wks, 5 more Wks should be no problem. No matter how bad is my day, it'll be over.