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.
I've learned that I had a whole post written out and accidentally went out of the thread and lost it and now I don't want to write it out again because I'm mobile. :mad face:
That I made a very good decision not to start uni in July, here at the end of August, 2 months out from full accreditation (15 standards, not just the mandatory 10) nobody in our office has time for anything. O and to add to the fires everyone in the organization appears to be screwing up at a rate of knots and we have never had this many serious incident investigations going at once. Got to talk to the cafeteria, they appear to be seasoning the food with silly salt.
That after a remark I made that action is finally happening, at a glacial pace, but happening.
I still hate my neighbors on one side of my house.
Spring is just around the corner here in Melbourne, yesterday and today have been mild and sunny. Thank goodness for that because this apparently was the worst winter in 20 years, but yesterday I had 5 loads of laundry om the washing line and every door and Window in the house open, everything smells so fresh......
I am re-taking A&P 1 & micro because of that pesky 5 year rule. I haven't been in school for a while & now since I have a kid it's completely different this time around.
I purchased ebooks thinking "oh it's so much cheaper & I can read them on my cell, cool!". Not cool, they are a pain in the butt to use! I have since rented the physical texts.
I have to start over completely. It's definitely different with kids. I wish I had done all this years ago.
Two of my professors didn't give us a choice between ebooks and texts, so it never occurred to me to look for the physical texts. Thanks for the idea!
Oh, and I can't even read my ebooks on my phone, bummer.
Today I learned that if I just sit back and refresh my page, AN will provide me with an endless supply of what-the-eff and she/he-just-admitted-whaaatt-moments. Free admission too.
OrganizedChaos, LVN
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LMAO!!!!!