Work hard, Play later? Drink...? Yes please!

Still at work after 3.30pm... Not very happy about it! Should have been enjoying a mini-shopping-spree this afternoon, choosing a few items of gather-wear in preparation for next weeks get together but due to last minute poorly-ness of others and a lack of communication from certain management tiers I'm stuck on the ward till 8pm!

I was the only qualified nurse for the majority of yesterday and for all of today (twelve hour stints) and I'm pretty miffed about it! Not that I'm incapable... Quite the opposite I feel. I went home yesterday tired but with a sense of competance and achievement at managing despite the seeming lack of support. And it's not like I've not been on the other end, knowing a ward has no staff but being powerless to support them! Sometimes you have to leave staff to manage and folk like myself, with ten years experience, should be more than capable. Am I being too reasonable? I'm probably just talking myself into accepting a rather irk-some situation rather than allowing myself to get mad about it. There's not really a lot that that would solve anyway...! Jxx