So today we did mock medication administration for the first time with real people, they were actors. We had 5 patients with a variety of different medications to administer. I was doing great. I did pills, half pills, crushed pills, inhalers, patches, subderm injections, subq injections. But then I had to do an IM. I was filling it at the bedside, choosing the syringe size and the needle size, concentrating so hard on making sure to do it all right. And then I took off the cap, looked at the needle and my eyes went big, my mouth dropped and I said "Woah!".
The "nurse face" comes with experience. The "nurse mouth" (where you refrain from saying something horribly inappropriate to the patient) sometimes takes a bit longer.
Malorymug
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I'm not sure I will ever master "nurse mouth".