1. I've decided to keep a tally of most critical labs in one admission, starting today (not including renal failure patients): hgb, glucose, potassium, chloride, PT and INR
2. Farawyn's what I learned thread was way cooler than mine are.
Adding an 80s song makes any thread way cooler.
3. Don't trust a 0600 portable chest X-ray to tell you if pulling a chest tube at 1600 is a good idea. It really sucks to tell someone they have a pneumo still.
4. If someone has q4h benzos and opiates, bring both when they ask for one because they'll just ask for the other after you've already run to the med room twice for them.
5. When someone's paracentesis site is still actively dripping rather steadily, it makes me want to squeeze that sucker and see how far I can shoot the fluid out.
6. This week, it actually was sarcoidosis.
7. I know what sarcoidosis is now.
Sarcoidosis sucks.
8. Doctors really need to stop saying, "we're going to go ahead and discharge you," without adding, "this afternoon", especially when they know full well they won't be putting in discharges anytime soon.
9. I think I've realized that the best docs we have actually enjoy my unit the best because they chart there.
Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
Because my dog is a two-year old ass hole who eats all of my stuff.
Lol. We haven't had a puppy in the longest time. The last puppy we tried to adopt was a horse of a dog & would go to the bathroom in the house. It would pee a river & poop more than me.
And now, to continue my self-gratifying need to post through photo- and videographic expression, I present to you "the way that terrible threads die", as interpreted by late 70s-fabulous cinematography.
Lol. We haven't had a puppy in the longest time. The last puppy we tried to adopt was a horse of a dog & would go to the bathroom in the house. It would pee a river & poop more than me.
I envy my dog's ability to produce giant, soft poo every single day, sometimes twice.
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Hahaha. Ok. Fair enough.