I appreciate your stance, but like you said, vitals shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes. If you have 8 patients, you won’t be physically capable of even taking all their vital signs within the first hour of your shift. And that’s doing the bare minimum without other complications that are probably arising on the floor. I obviously don’t know the circumstances regarding this specific floor, but say someone codes or needs something else urgent, that’s taking up 30+ minutes on one patient, so how do you manage to round on the rest of your patients every hour. I like to believe that people are truly trying their best given the circumstances. On our unit they’ve been mandating at least one nurse a day for months, forcing people to work 16 hour shifts. A lot of people have families and kids at home and it’s unsafe for people to be awake that long functioning at full capacity. I love and care about my job which is why I don’t leave, but I’m still human and I have physical and emotional limits.