it may sound really unexciting but believe me it made my day. see, like a lot of other nurses' aides i spent my days wishing the day would come when i would be the nurse. when i would save lives and do things that really made a difference. sure, i would still have to do some "aide things" but they wouldn't be that important anymore because i would be the nurse. i mean, i would be doing all the cool stuff, so giving my patient food wouldn't really be a big deal, right? wrong.
i got to feed my patient today.
sometimes i think we lose sight of why we do what we do. sometimes the unresponsive lady in 404 becomes just a number and a diagnosis. but that's not who we are, that's not what nursing is. we know how much the little things count. we know the seemingly insignificant can actually make all the difference in the world.
i got to feed my patient today.
at the beginning of my shift, she only awakened to a sternal rub. she would not talk to you. she was in afib with rvr and her pressures were high. her calcium was really high. i turned a repositioned q1h just like we're supposed to. i talked to her even though she didn't talk back. i smiled at her even though she didn't smile back. but then, something wonderful happened to me.
i got to feed my patient today.
at noon, her iv aredia had finished. by 2 o'clock this woman was sitting up and looking at me. in a matter of a few hours she had converted back to nsr, her pressures had come down to normal and she was answering me appropiately. we were talking. she turned out to be a peach. i hadn't known it because she was the pretty much unresponsive patient in bed 6 when i started my shift. it was the coolest thing. i talked to her and she talked back. i smiled at her and she smiled back. then the doctors rounded and advanced her diet. they couldn't believe her progress.
i got to feed my patient today.
i haven't been a nurse very long and i'm naive to a lot of things. today, though, i knew why i had picked the profession and i did. today, i was proud of what we do. today, i couldn't have been happier to feed my patient.
Aids make the best nurses. They make the best bosses too. They've been there and they willingly jump in and do things other nurses concider benieth them. Kudos!
x4livin, ADN
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Aids make the best nurses. They make the best bosses too. They've been there and they willingly jump in and do things other nurses concider benieth them. Kudos!