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Ha wow'd a patient yet again have to agree great thread! when you take 15 mins off your break when you have no time to eat to get them a paper is that wowing? when you spend endless shifts getting abuse from a patient and manage to keep calm and not be angry even though ur tired and short staffed and the relatives yell at you the day after cause you forgot one tiny thing ( all you wanna say is I spent 3 days arguing with physios/docs/social/OT so your dad wouldnt go to that home he hates and he kicked me spat swore as was confused and then you start on me too?) I stand calm and say im sorry we are trying, apologise again. that wowing? daily basis. We do this for the patients cause I always have and always will think of them as my mom or dad

so true

I once didnt sign for giving warfarin and a nurse thankfully called me and asked if I gave it, I had and told her so ( if not signed for it not done thing) so glad she did call thus didnt give it or coulda gone so bad, I felt so bad about it even though no harm came but it taught me a lesson, same as last people said I'll never forget that again. Now I put lil boxes next to my handover sheet warfarin/insilin/MST/fluids, and I check it before end of every shift to make sure never forget again. We all make mistakes we're human and nurses just learn and move on :)

We all hate the not enough time factor in our job, but those moments when someone thanks you and you know you did the best you could are the moments that make you think yes!

Ive found running about like we all do and not taking time to go the bathroom is a big issue what I also believe is a massive thing at least for me is I find we never drink enough water! so for the last year and half since this thought came to me, to become the water woman, I know i get thirsty so whenever I get myself a drink of water I get someone else on the team one too, our fluid charts look rubbish! so always think if your having a drink get someone else one too its appriciated alot :)