Burned Out

Yesterday was a rough day at work. We had a resident who was in pretty bad respiratory distress. I don't know about anybody else but when i have a hard time breathing I get tired. So, this residents was getting tired and just wanted to lay down. The dumb paramedic said ," Are you giving up breathing? Are you ready to die?" What kind of jerk says that to somebody? What ever happen to public service and encouragement in crisis (no matter how big or small) After they took the resident out of the room to the ER the paramedic came up to me and said, "It doesn't look as if he will make it, you might want to prepare everybody now." UHM! What a Jerk! So, I was suppose to leave work at 7pm last night because I was in at 9:30am and that emergency got ober at 7:15pm, I took out garbage, toileted two people, but someone to bed and then at 7:45pm when i was getting ready to take the garbage out I hear, "HELP! HELP!" Once of my residents fell and that took another thirty minutes. The nurse and I were coming downstairs when the other nurse called on the radio. She had dropped all the other nurse's pills on the ground and they were alll mixed up, so guess what I stayed and helped do.... PILLS. So, obviously I was not meant to leave at 7pm yesterday. Who knows maybe I would have gotten in a bad accident on my way home or someone would have hijacked my car, either way I am very frustrated with work right now. I am just burned out! It doesn't help either that I am no getting very good sleep either!