What I learned this week (7/4/15)....

[ixchel]

I can't wait to see what our ED nurses might contribute to this thread tomorrow morning.

This week, I learned.....

1. I understand anorexia comes hand in hand with laxative abuse, but I'm pretty sure my non-anorexic self may consider an abuse of laxatives habit after the number of little old ladies I keep getting with bowel obstructions. For reals, y'all.... This never ends well.

2. A rat will dissolve in Mt. Dew in 30 days.

3. I have officially created a "do not touch me" list with two MDs names firmly on it. I have made my wishes known to my coworkers.

4. Every now and then, one of our hospitalists will comment to how great our nurses are - how they're supportive of the MDs, attentive, alert, etc. I always figured they just say that so we don't turn on them. lol We had a MD leave last week, though, and he expressed this same thought. The supportiveness of the nurses is the exact reason I came to work at this hospital, so its very awesome to hear that my instincts were good from people who have experienced nurses at other facilities.

5. People with insecurities will project them on to people they feel jealousy toward, especially in the professional environment.

6. I need to meet ZDogg.

7. Lorazepam is a hell of a drug.

8. To all the MDs out there, if nurses are telling you something big is being missed with a patient, PLEASE listen. We don't want to bug you over and over just as much as you don't want us to bug you over and over.

9. Never underestimate the power of counter transferrence. I saw an MD cry this week as he informed a patient she may likely have cancer.

10. Regarding the patient, cervical cancer looks very icky "face to face".

11. Also regarding that patient, it is so weird what people will lie about. Its better to admit you haven't seen a GYN in years than to pretend you were just there. By the size of that black icky spot, you haven't been in awhile.

And for my PSA, ladies get your paps and pelvics whether you've bumped uglies since the 90s or not.

Be safe on this holiday, loves!

What have you learned this week?

[Farawyn]

I learned that I can be one of the most experienced nurses in the room, but if I don't have recent home care experience I am actually a total noob.

And that knocks me off my game.

I learned I am not over Kurt Cobain and probably never will be. And that's okay.

[ixchel]

OMG I'm ready to start next week's thread already. Hilarious learning opportunities à l'Ixchel Medical Hospital Center Facility. (Name changed to protect the innocent.)

I hope that you are all finding peace and comfort this week. Last one was a rough one.

[Jensmom7, BSN, RN]

OMG I'm ready to start next week's thread already. Hilarious learning opportunities à l'Ixchel Medical Hospital Center Facility. (Name changed to protect the innocent.)

I hope that you are all finding peace and comfort this week. Last one was a rough one.

Yeah, me too ixchel. This week has had too many Mondays in it for my liking.

[ixchel]

Yeah, me too ixchel. This week has had too many Mondays in it for my liking.

I just wrapped up my first of 6 (with a day off in between numbers five and six, not that that day off counts when I'm supposed to clock out at 0700). I haven't had time for a bunch of Mondays yet, and I'm not going to jinx myself. :)

[jojo489]

I just wrapped up my first of 6 (with a day off in between numbers five and six, not that that day off counts when I'm supposed to clock out at 0700). I haven't had time for a bunch of Mondays yet, and I'm not going to jinx myself. :)

I go in for #3/6 tonight...and end it with two twelves. It just feels like every day is Wednesday and I've never been so excited for a Monday.

[jojo489]

Oh, and am I the only night shifter who never knows what day of the week it is?

I know the date...just never the day. 😳

[CardinalFanRN]

I learned that:

a caring, companionate, helpful floor manager is invaluable.

My coworkers are awesome😊.

Being a nurse is hard.

Yes... I'm new on the hospital scene.

[jifferte, BSN, MSN, RN]

I learned that sometimes justice is not served, and that the way we look at caregiving is changing.

I learned that when your professor says she will take off points for wrong APA format that she is in fact not kidding.

I learned that having a summer off for the first time since 1997 feels awesome.

I learned that kickboxing in an 80 degree dojo is much harder on my 41 year old body vs. my 31 year old body of yore.

I think that's it for now.

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[noelly10]

I learned that my body can't handle roller coasters any more.

Work is going to be fun

[vintagemother, BSN, CNA, LVN, RN]

That book destroys me every time!

I'm glad I'm not the only one. 😀

[vintagemother, BSN, CNA, LVN, RN]

This week I learned:

to stay on my lane regarding doing what my clinical instructor wants.

That God always shows up at work. Re a pt telling me "God bless you" because I simply gave her a bed bath.

That I love familiarity! I like knowing hospital procedures d/t my experience as a CNA on the same floor.

That it's hard to do CNA tasks plus RN tasks during clinicals. (I'm trying to learn as much as I can by doing both pt care as well as "nurse duties")

That I love Love love patient care!!

[Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP]

That if one more stressful thing happens to me in the next couple weeks I am probably going to freak out and throw stuff. Seriously. I'm about at breaking point. Chipping away at what I can when I can but some things can't be chipped at, they just are.

Husband leaving the country for visa interview with potential to get stuck there x 10 years, mother having surgery this week, stepfather hospitalized for the third time this week, end-of-semester-school-stuff for me, work/kids, and now my uncle's colon CA is back with lung mets. I'm done. I don't have big girl panties to put on anymore.