2. When meth is combined with cocaine and booze, it can destroy a 28 year old heart.
3. When you have one random patient across the unit from your other patients, and that patient is the only patient without psych issues, that poor patient is unfortunately going to be a bit neglected.
4. A discharge with EMS transport, ICU transfer and admission happening simultaneously (literally all less than 5 minutes apart from one another) 2 hours before you're supposed to be giving report means you'll be giving report before your last round of (very late) meds will be given.
5. Never been happier for vacation time. (Today is day 4/15.)
6. All play and no work makes ixchel a very happy girl. :)
That's all I got this week! Not much to learn when all I've been doing is playing! :)
I learned that 'chin length, blunt cut bob' means one thing in my mind- quite another in the mind of the stylist with the scissors......
Awww!
I got my hair cut a few weeks ago. The front is longer than the back, and both are longer than my chin but above my shoulders, actually jusuuuuust touching shoulders now.
It's a cute cut. My hair was really long (like in my avatar) so I like it.
Bad cuts can ruin your month. The good thing is, hair grows!
1. I've learned that time passes way too quickly. My big boy is leaving for college in less than 3 weeks.
2. I've learned that said big boy and I get each other in a way other people don't and while I'm so excited for him I will miss him with my whole heart.
3. I've learned that he will miss the pets the most. (Yes, he told me.)
4. I've learned that walking the hills where I live after not walking all summer is not a good look for me.
5. I've learned an entire computer system for charting OASIS this past week and it's so detailed I don't know how I can get it done in a timely fashion.
6. I've learned I should stick to * instead of letting the site bleep me, but I'm not a fake girl, so it will be hard.
7. I've learned that pot can be a hell of a drug.
8. I've learned that I like many of the people here a lot. Like, tons.
9. I've learned that I've forgotten most of To Kill a Mockingbird, and this Book Club thing is good. (Come to The Blue Side!)
I've learned that some people will never understand the hell that is addiction and that while it's not okay to say obese people don't deserve medical care because they did it to themselves it is okay to say addicts don't and that they should just put a bullet in their brain. Saying that about any other type of person people would be scrambling over each other to declare the wrongness of that statement. But saying a junkie should just put a bullet in their brain, no one bats an eye.
I learned this week that I'm still so thankful that I did not actually put a bullet in my brain like I wanted to so sooo badly every single day of my life that I was a pill crushin IV slammin junkie, and that I am grateful that I had the chance to get better and live a happy productive life.
I also have 9 year old twins...b/g - its a fun age isn't it?
They've recently started telling fart jokes. I tried to play a video game with them yesterday and they used to just run ahead and make you die. Now they explain what to do, how to play, the buttons. They wait if you get stuck. It was, dare I say, enjoyable.
I've learned that some people will never understand the hell that is addiction and that while it's not okay to say obese people don't deserve medical care because they did it to themselves it is okay to say addicts don't and that they should just put a bullet in their brain. Saying that about any other type of person people would be scrambling over each other to declare the wrongness of that statement. But saying a junkie should just put a bullet in their brain, no one bats an eye.
I learned this week that I'm still so thankful that I did not actually put a bullet in my brain like I wanted to so sooo badly every single day of my life that I was a pill crushin IV slammin junkie, and that I am grateful that I had the chance to get better and live a happy productive life.
Doctors are actual people. Well, first year residents are. I don't know about the actual Doctors. I think they may be a myth.
Nah. They all are. Not just the baby residents, but the more senior residents. Attendings too. I don't know - I work in an area where we have pretty close work relationships with our docs. We've had some events in several coworkers personal lives (physician and staff) which have illustrated how much we do care about the people we work with.
I have learned that my 5 year old son should be the picture in the dictionary next to the word hangry. He is a brat if he doesn't eat regularly. Even if we offer food sometimes when he is in that mood he will refuse. God help me.
That my putting my grandma in hospice hurts, but I am glad she will be comfortable at my mom's house.
I have learned that my 5 year old son should be the picture in the dictionary next to the word hangry. He is a brat if he doesn't eat regularly. Even if we offer food sometimes when he is in that mood he will refuse. God help me.
That my putting my grandma in hospice hurts, but I am glad she will be comfortable at my mom's house.
Juice. Get the blood sugar up, then offer snacks again. My kid is on a med that makes him not feel hungry, even though he is, and he's a complete monster when he decides he won't eat, even though he really needs to.
1. Week of 7/18 - I dreaded an assignment because I was assigned to work with an attending who relentlessly complains over things nobody can fix and can be a real downer (he's a nice person but if he gets started on a trigger it's all downhill from there). That's okay - when I had had it up to the breaking point with this attending, my boss pulls me for another assignment. I was needed to scrub a specialty case that had been bumped (and moved) by an emergency case. Handle things as best you can, take a deep breath and let the things you can't control go (they're a reflection of others, not you) and it's all over at the end of the day. People eventually get what's coming to them and in this case that meant having "off service" staff in their room instead of team members (I feel really bad for my coworker who had to relieve me - she's an excellent and competent nurse, who I enjoy working with but I was glad to become a "human ping pong ball" to escape).
2. From some time ago - our boss called out, in our most recent staff meeting, that we have some of the best team work and an "amazing" ability to help eachother out and make things work. She mentioned that the surgeons we work with were so impressed with how we made things work and ran our own service while she was out earlier this year.
3. A conversation with one of the reps for a product we use. Two actually, this week (we were joking about plenty of things - but you have to know our staff and the docs I work with to get it). I respect and enjoy working with most of the reps we work with.
4. Not all reps are quite so awesome. As evidenced by one of the reps we had during a recent product trial (so annoying and incredibly pushy). This was also evidenced by another thread this week on here. All I can say about that thread is wow.
5. Feedback from a student I was precepting. That I was "calm but insistent and really good at explaining things."
6. Feedback from a coworker I precepted, that I taught them so much. My boss agreeing, saying that I'm an "excellent teacher".
7. Working with my coworkers. They're the best!
8. If you run out of the primary supply you use for XYZ thing, then you will run out of the replacement (plus the replacement supply sucks), and then you nearly run out of the replacement for the replacement.
1. UTIs and near deadly sodium levels can have very similar symptoms in the elderly (N/V, loss of appetite, confusion, weakness, etc)...and my 95 year-old grandmother told me (a nurse who she usually trusts), my mother and father (son and daughter in law)..."No, I'm not going to the hospital. They will have me waiting there forever!"...but would agree to an ambulance transfer at the request of her home health aide....sodium level near seizure zone...
2. Once I give the cat wet food to gain the weight back from being sick I cannot take it away...he will not eat the dry food anymore and is chasing me around the house crying for tuna!
3. I really should have finished nursing school 15 years ago like I first planned, or 10 years ago like I started planning again...now I'm definitely doing it.....and it's so hard being old and having a toddler on summer break..."Mommy, mommy, what you doing? Mommy, mommy, let me see that book...Mommy, mommy,.... WHAT'S THAT PICTURE????!!! EWWW!!!! MOMMY???"
4. There is a time when the radio must be censored when young children are in the car. Taylor Swift's "Shake it off"...not so bad... "Ooh Baby I'm Worth It!" being sung in the tub before bedtime...not so good. Too bad I cannot tear the speakers out of my husbands work vehicle....
OrganizedChaos, LVN
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I want to give everyone a biiiiiiig hug for all thier losses/everything tough they're going through. *hugs*