incompetent? just trying to do my job (and yours too)

yesterday was, to speak euphemistically, a challenge.

i asked my boss if i could be the unit clerk since we didn't have one and she readily agreed. a little too readily. and then she also made me her designate in charge because she was going to be in meetings all day.

sweet.

being in charge is not cool when your coworkers are patronizing towards you.
and the doctor doesn't want to work with you.
and then you are frustrated and left with the unknown mess of the 6 patients a coworker abandoned in your care when she supplanted you in an ambulance transfer. and then you're still doing all the order processing for the twenty patients and trying to figure out what needs to be done for the 6 patients now suddenly in your direct care (2 of whom are dying) and assist the LPN with her 6 patients because one of her dying patients is requiring care beyond her scope of practice and you're also dealing with finding beds for 3 more patients and continuously harassing a doctor for more orders for a new patient who is going downhill fast and who's current meds aren't doing anything to make her better and she's puking and the doctor makes you do a gag-inducing throat swab on her. and you just want to sit down and cry and eat your frozen dinner. and then one of your patients dies. and then you're filling out your overtime form and a coworker on the next shift's patient dies and has never dealt with a body before so you get to call the wife at home to tell her.

and when the doctor comes back from the transfer and asks you if you are upset (about being supplanted), you screw professionalism and you say YES!!!!!!!

and you wake up in the morning and wonder if that one bad day of patronizing, disrespectful colleagues is enough reason to get a new job.