Worst Shift of My Entire Career
I work in one of the busiest Emergency in NSW. We have been hit by Covid badly each outbreak we are at the epicenter. During the Christmas period at the height of Omicron we have been so short staffed that they are days we had to work 1:4 and worst 1:6. We were working in Covid room w/ 2 nurses to 11 ccovid patients. However they gave us an ICU 1:1 patient who is extremely confused w/ o providing a nurse specially, We had 3 more confused patient the whole shift we could not do other nursing interventions because we could barely leave our ICU patient 3 out of 4 patient were all climbing out of bed all such high falls risk. On top of this we were getting verbally abused by an Unvaxxed patient who is getting impatient as we couldnt attend to him obviously because we couldnt even leave our confused patients bed side. I had a full mental breakdown on my break i was crying so loudly. What made is worst is that when i was escalating all this issue to our manager we were told of for other issues instead of providing us helping and acknowledging our unsafe working conditions.