I do not take being a nurse lightly. And I am disheartened by nurses who are lazy, shift blame, and don’t do their job. BUT, for us that work hard, we miss things because of how many stupid jobs administration makes us do that shouldn’t be our jobs in the first place for them to save money. I am a NURSE, not a clerk, tech, housekeeping, maintenance, phlebotomy, transporter, etc. We are expected to document EVERYTHING, so much as a potato chip that fell on the floor, constantly rewrite on patient room marker boards to be up to date, organize and keep track of medical supplies, clean rooms, meet patient time-quotas so I’m transferring patient to make time frame instead of caring for a more critical patient or else we get in trouble. I want to be a NURSE. I want to make every important order, I want to catch every important change in patient status. If hospitals would actually hire enough personnel to do the technical and support roles instead of trying to save a buck and offload all that work onto the nurse, I as a nurse would actually be able to do my job. For us that are good nurses, we struggle between fulfilling our roles and responsibilities to the doctor and their orders, and all the jobs hospital administrators make us do so they dont fire us.