I don't know about everyone but from time to time I need to read something positive here. The truth is almost every day I think about those things that I am grateful for. I just have an urge to share some of that here.
I am grateful for: a job, an income, a profession where I can afford to work part time, a reason to get up in the morning, my co-workers, the CNAs unit secretaries, the LVNs, the visitors who brighten my pt's day, the family member who fills me on the quirks, details and back ground of the pt's illness and those things that make it easier to care for him.
I am grateful for equipment that works, for a place to sit for a moment during the day, for the rapid response team, for the men and women at allnurses.com who share and listen, bolseter, advise, and scold me.
I am grateful to live close to the hospital where I work, for the educational oportunities at the hospital and those that are afforded me just because I am a nurse.
I am grateful for the grump be they nurse or pt. I am grateful because when the power goes out everywhere else the hospital has power.
I am grateful that the dirty needle stick I received never resulted in an infection of any kind.
I am grateful for the mistakes I have made and grateful from the things I learned from the tragic mistakes of other nurses and grateful that but for the grace of God it was not me that made it.
I am grateful that the nurse who tranfered a difficult pt to me (yesterday) saw that all his meds and treatments and such were done before transfering.
I am grateful that the doctor I called yesterday about a change of condition shared my concern and responded right away instead of making me waite until he rounded later.
OK I can go on but I won't hog it all. It is your turn.
I too swell with pride when I see a flag fly.... My ds18 is debating joining the army reserves, and although as a mom I do not want to see him in harms way, in a way, it makes me proud, what I do is noble and important, and what the military does is very noble and very important.
I am sooo grateful for the freedom to work as I choose
I am grateful for the power and hot water (and clean water) that others have spoken of
I am grateful for a HUGE family who make me smile just thinking about all the fun times we have had....
I am grateful for friends who are there when that one pt/resident is pushing me to the edge..... and find something to make me laugh so I can finish the shift
I am grateful for what everything I have. Anywhere from the picture my daughter drew for me, to the purse my sister made me, the little old house I live in that always needs work. (Really grateful for my new installation of central air and heat, YEAH!!!) All these may be material things but they represent the memories I cherish in my life.
I have been through a roller coaster and realized that even at the low point there was always a light a the end of the tunnel. That light was becoming a nurse and pursing what I love.
Life is beautiful. It it just a matter of dusting off the grime to see it.
Specializes in CNA, Surgical, Pediatrics, SDS, ER.
I am greatful for all God has blessed me with. I may have taken a hard path to get where I am but I know that God was with me guiding me to where I am now.
I am so greatful for those that fight for our freedom so we have all the rights and the luxuries to live in a free country.
I am so greatful for my family and my healthy children.
I am greatful for my education and try to instill in my children the importance and privilage it is to have knowledge.
I am greatful for my job that I love like nothing else. Knowing that you are their to help people in many different phases of their life and make a difference is rewarding.
Don't ask I guess it is the references to the military (as I was military and now have a kind or survivors remorse over having left just before the gulf wars.it was because I saw it coming) but I am getting teary eyed. Everything you are saying is doing it Now stop that.
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wearingmanyhats, RN
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I too swell with pride when I see a flag fly.... My ds18 is debating joining the army reserves, and although as a mom I do not want to see him in harms way, in a way, it makes me proud, what I do is noble and important, and what the military does is very noble and very important.
I am sooo grateful for the freedom to work as I choose
I am grateful for the power and hot water (and clean water) that others have spoken of
I am grateful for a HUGE family who make me smile just thinking about all the fun times we have had....
I am grateful for friends who are there when that one pt/resident is pushing me to the edge..... and find something to make me laugh so I can finish the shift
Faye