nervousnurse

A bank teller who DESPERATELY wanted to be a nurse! I was beyond THRILLED when I finalllllly got into nursing school!

I'm so sorry about your sister! I always enjoy your cartoons and sense of humor. ?

I used to work on a very busy rehab unit like this, and seriously---NOT seeing any of my patients the entire shift is a nightmare I have once in a while. When I wake up, I'm sooo happy it wasn't real! I have dreams/ nightmares like that about every 6 months or so---but this ACTUALLY happens where you work? It is horribly shocking that a nurse wouldn't see their patients AT ALL ? ! ? ! Doesn't your unit require head-to-toe assessments at least each shift ( 12 hours), or every 8 hours (that was the rule when I worked med-surg years ago). I agree with everyone who said you should leave; however, if it were me, I'd feel an ethical responsibility to report to the the BON, too. I just cannot fathom a nurse who doesn't check their patients AT ALL? I feel very sorry for those patients !! Even though I was on a rehab floor (which some think is "easy"---LOL!) we'd have patients whose recent hip replacement would dislocate, who were "only" on our floor after a total knee, but then had a stroke, etc. HOW can this person's boss be okay with this? Good luck!

I haven't worked in NICU for 18 years, yet last night, I had one of those verrrrrry long, detailed dreams about it. (I call dreams like this "epic movie dreams" and I'm surprised I didn't have a big barrel of popcorn in my bed when I woke up!) The thing that's funny is that the parts of the dream about TAKING CARE of the sick premies was FINE---this dream wasn't about the stress of that at all. It turned into a "nightmare" when my shift was finally over, but ALL my nursing notes were BLANK! I frantically started writing, knowing that the next nurse was waiting on those notes and would be mad. I also realized I hadn't weighed some of the babies. A few nursing students were sitting with me, and they were SHOCKED at how much we had to chart. They kept watching me struggling, and I was making SO many errors and explaining to them how you have to put a line through and initial, etc. etc. They kept saying they weren't sure they'd be able to handle all of that charting, and maybe needed to change careers.

WOWWW !!!!!!!!!! I can barely imagine doctors smoking in a lounge, or a patient puffing away in their room....but for them to SHARE one seems kinda.....intimate. I wonder if they knew eachother ?!?!

I'm sorry I miss the bedside and wish I could've worked longer, too! (and p.s.....I like your avatar; I only recognize her because hubby is a huge Star Trek fan)

Me toooo !!!!

I would have LOVED this shift if it had been offered where I worked !!!! :) I loved night shift and was FINE until 7am for many years. But it got to the point where around 4 am, I felt HORRRRIBLE---I used to call it "a SICK kind of tired."

I always enjoy your posts! :) P.S. I googled "NETY", and sure enough, google brought me to an archived post from here! HOW did we survive before the internetS? :)

it's nice to hear from my fellow night owls. :) I am practically useless during the day; but around 9:00 tonight, I started making spaghetti sauce, scrubbed my kitchen and now onto scrub the bathrooms!

A sweet elderly patient said I was the kindest, most thorough nurse and asked if I could be his nurse every night.

I'm sending you many (( hugs ))!!!

I'm a natural night owl and worked nights for many years and LOVED it. I felt bad for my coworkers who did NOT like nights, and only worked them because they HAD to. I'm not working currently; but I still love to be up at night! I have more energy, it's not as hot, ( HATE summer time! The heat, the bugs!) I alter my sleep habits in order to volunteer, socialize, run errands, etc....but if I COULD, I'd love to do all those things in the middle of the night, too. How about you?

Wow....I'm sorry for ALL that you're dealing with !!! Sending you many ((( hugs ))))

Have any of you seen the show "Derek?" (it streams on Netflix). It is a verrry sweet, funny, sometimes sad show about a very small nursing home in England. Ricky Gervais created/ wrote/ stars in it. I just love the elderly and used to volunteer/ work in Nursing Homes, so I was pretty sure I'd enjoy it. It took me a few epis to like it, then I started loving it sooo much, I was bummed it only had 2 seasons! Here's a clip: :)