Between 2003 and 2007 I worked as a Registered Practical Nurse/Personal Support Worker in a nursing home. As a P.S.W. I provided personal care to up to 14 patients a shift. I would wash, dress, feed, transfer, toilet, and many other activities they would need they could not provide for themselves. As a R.P.N. my duties would include giving medications to 42 patients twice a shift, changing dressings, charting and a number of other things depending on the shift. Compared to the nursing home I enjoy the hospital so much more. At the home the R.P.N. gives out all the meds. If a patient needs something a P.S.W. will come to you and say "Mr. Doe needs Tylenol."
You have to stop what you are doing to take him his pills or he has to wait. At the hospital, all of the staff is registered. If your patient needs a Tylenol anyone can give it if you are busy. Even though you are providing all of the care to your patients at the hospital, you only to give medications to four to eight patients. I miss the staff and patients at the nursing home and if circumstances were different I would go back and work casually. I enjoy my job at the hospital and even though I may complain about working my third weekend in a roll, I would not give it up.
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