Deeply introverted, and rehab is a high-touch specialty. I love my patients and enjoy most of my coworkers, but I'm drained at the end of the shift. I've gotten really selective about who I see on my...
Things like straight caths and helping with hygiene and aspirating residuals feel routine now, but when a patient says "I love you,"* that's waaay too much intimacy and I spend the next week quietly...
Repeating my stats class three times did not appreciably increase my understanding of, or reduce my loathing for, statistics. Even though I'm not even in school anymore I still put off writing papers...
I was surfing PubMed on my day off (I can't be the only one who does this) and came across the RADAR delirium screening tool. Basically, you take a few seconds during med pass to assess whether a...
I've been chewing cloves rather than face the impending root canal. I save the scotch for the nights I have multiple PITAs, or have to send a patient out. I re-learned that pity has no place on the...
A patient with dementia and CVA was admitted to our acute inpatient stroke rehab unit some weeks ago. She was transferred to a single room because the screaming was disturbing her room mate. When I...
I learned that if I follow the instructions in that "how to drive a regular-a55 car in the snow" article that was making the rounds on FB last week, I CAN in fact drive a beat-up front-wheel-drive...
I started my Dream Job in October. 2 days before I was due to finish orientation, I experienced major illness. It took 3 weeks to get medical clearance to return to work. I finished my orientation...
StripeyDog replied to avery1020's topic in Rehabilitation
3 months into my 1at RN job at a top-notch acute rehab facility. I had 8 weeks orientation, and I started hearing cracks about "still" being on orientation around week 3. I get 5 or 6 patients a...