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Shehasadiamondinthesky · 13/09/2021 00:00

Its almost midnight and I can't sleep I'm so bloody angry.
Don't want to be outing but NHS community and basically had a look at my home visits list for tomorrow and just totally flipped.
I have a totally unrealistic list of acutely ill people, have been given hardly any time to see each one, I can't afford to make one single mistake with any of them and I am working cross county so travelling miles and miles.
If we make one single mistake in our work some jobs worth fills out an incident form instead of just talking to us and we get hauled over the coals and it's put on our records - I'm trained staff.
Every blood week i'm given a work load that is not possible to do in the time.
I'm very experienced, I have more than 40 years in the NHS and know what I'm doing.
nobody takes any notice of my emails and I put in near miss incident forms when I'm given work that isn't doable.
I'm just at the end of my rope and thinking of leaving.
Anyone have any idea what I should do next. Its because we haven't got any staff but I'm not superwoman and sometimes the drive from one house to another is an hour on farm tracks and unmade roads and so on.

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myheartskippedabeat · 13/09/2021 00:13

I'm so sorry to read this
It's an awful situation my best friend is a community nurse and says the same she's just out her
Notice in she's going back on to a ward in the hospital she's had enough

I'd speak to occupational health as a first snd tell them it's stressing you out and you feel it's a safeguarding concern

Then I'd look at the list and look at each location and email your manager to say I'm not going to be able to do all
This I need you to cover x, y and z

If it's still a nightmare contact your union, go off sick or start applying for other jobs (even if you love your job) perhaps a "reference request" my gee them up a bit

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