This week, I learned.... (7/25)

I haven't read the heart wrenching thread because right now my heart couldn't take it.

I'm already curling into fetal position and crying I don't need help.

But I'm going to read it now because I like torturing myself.

I learned that eating a whole bottle of vitamin gummies can have terrible consequences, and that I was a prudent nurse in choosing to call pharmacy and the doctors. Vitamin toxicity, it's a real thing.

Even though I'm looking out for the health and safety of a patient and I do my job, that does not make me a good nurse in their eyes.

Doctors are actual people. Well, first year residents are. I don't know about the actual Doctors. I think they may be a myth.

I haven't read the heart wrenching thread because right now my heart couldn't take it.

I'm already curling into fetal position and crying I don't need help.

But I'm going to read it now because I like torturing myself.

Sometimes crying about things other than my problems makes me feel better. Maybe that'll happen to you!

*offers hugs and Kleenex*

Ood:

This should lift your spirits.

Chin up! There's always time for spoilers.

It's a rough thread, that one.

Sometimes crying about things other than my problems makes me feel better. Maybe that'll happen to you!

*offers hugs and Kleenex*

This!!

I learned from this thread that some people are experiencing some weird phenomenon called "summer low census" and I would like to know what that is. We are constantly 30/30 beds and are so short on help that we have offered critical staffing pay for every single shift, both nights and days, for the past two weeks, and we still end up tripled anyway. While I'm coming in on incentive on my main job, my second job blows up my phone about critical staffing needs at least three times per week. It's hard to believe people are actually getting cancelled for low census anywhere when it seems like everywhere around here is bursting at the seams with really crazy sick patients and we don't have enough help to take care of them.

I don't know what this "summer low census" means. Is it like when you start off the night shift with 27/30 beds on your unit? (Only to get three admits...) We're still having to keep our "winter" overflow unit open due to the need for beds. I think we've been having a lot of "summertime chemo" lately.

I learned this week that I have "ER stalkers"...those repeat families that come and know who I am and will recall what happened while I can't which further confirms that I successfully can decompress from work.

Sorry nu rn ((hug)

Sorry about your loss.

Thank you

I learned that I'm more overwhelmed at my new LTC job than my corrections job medicating big burly murderers. I dont know why but just walking in the LTC facility makes me a little anxious. I guess I'll get the hang of it soon enough. I'm guessing it's because I haven't grasped the computer system yet. If I can medicate 160+ inmates at my other job, then why do I feel swamped medicating 27? Blows my mind.

Sometimes a-fib "just happens." And it can still be scary as hell.

I want to give everyone a biiiiiiig hug for all thier losses/everything tough they're going through. *hugs*