Who worked New Years? How was your shift?

[Lev]

We had all the usual drunks in the ER. One nurse had 3 sitter patients- poor thing. People seem to use the holidays as a time to overdose. I had a crazy staff splitting patient who I sent up to the floor who called me 1/2 hour later to tell me that I should explain to her nurse how her pain medicine works and then she made some racist slur about the nurse and how she doesn't understand what she was saying. We had one guy who came in 3x by EMS each time not getting what he wanted obviously. Then he assaulted the EMS personnel so we got the police on him.

[flying_ace2]

I'm working today, but the day's half over already and I didn't have to come in until 10 this morning. So still got to enjoy New Year's Eve a little bit and come to work today to get my double time pay! So far I've only spoken with a retired nurse about the side effects she's been experiencing on one of her medications. Pleasant day so far!

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

I worked my usual midshift, 11a-11p. I left later than I wanted (per usual) but made it home to my husband just one minute before midnight! Plenty of time for a kiss and a Guinness or two.

Lots of sick folks yesterday, everyone basically presented wearing signs on their foreheads that said "I need a lumbar puncture!" But now: four whole days off!!! :)

I challenged everyone to write a goal for 2016 on one of our ED whiteboards. There were some funny answers, but serious ones too. I love my coworkers.

[downsouthlaff, LPN]

My usual 11p-7a nursing home nurse shift. This may come as a shock to many but it was very routine ! I typed the same nurses notes over for the fourth day in a row ! Gave the same meds for the fourth day in a row. While the ball was dropping at midnight I was dropping some Jevity 1.5 by one of my Continous Tube feeders room! Watching ! [emoji23]! I have report to the same stickler 7a-3p Nurse for the 4th day in a row ! Gave the same screaming old lady Xanax PRN for the 4th day in a row ! Reordered meds on the med cart for the 4th day in a row! And tonight , I'm gonna do it all again for the 5th night in a row! The joys of a nursing home LPN [emoji5]️

[whichone'spink, BSN, RN]

Busy. Nothing crazy but busy. One last case for the day and my day is done. I hope the patient does okay.

[nursling>]

Sounds about like where I work

[FurBabyMom, MSN, RN]

I worked my first scheduled holiday shift in the OR yesterday (previously I'd only ever been on call for holidays in the OR and totally got hosed one holiday last year). Got it out of the way so I (hopefully) won't have to do more holidays this year!

It wasn't too bad. Lots of peds patients, lots of stuff on my primary service line. We had emergencies but nothing truly crazy (apparently, our hospital got our share of the truly crazy stuff over Christmas). Our emergencies yesterday were the controlled chaos that is preferable to the uncontrolled total chaos we sometimes (rarely) get. We got a number of traumas but nothing that had to come straight up from the ED to OR or that had to bypass the ED from the helipad.

It really wasn't so bad, considering. We had a good group of really good folks working yesterday. Plus, our charge nurse was fair, and rotated who was assigned to work and who was assigned to be "free" aka the trauma team (we switched on and off based on cases).

[ponymom]

I worked New years eve. I work as a pool nurse in drug and detox. I was never oriented to 3 to 11 and have been on 11 to 7. Unfortunately the regular nurse had a fit when she saw two pool people that she really did not want to work with. Her words were, I'm working with you two? I know it would have been nice to work with people who knew it all but come on. I have been a geriatric nurse for 18 years and we get our share of brand new staff. The brand new staff drive us crazy but obviously want to help if they picked up a shift and I would rather try to help than not have them come back because maybe after a few shifts they would be stronger. I wanted to slap that girl in the face. If you want staff to work with you treat them nice and try to help. ( I dont mean to do their job). It would be perfect to work with staff that was experienced but it does not happen all the time.

I had one uglypuss say this to me when I was still fairly new to nursing. I came in to help out, knowing that this pig was the nastiest person in the building. To which In replied " We'll, if if bothers you that much, I guess you don't have to, Happy New Year!". Then I picked up my bag and left the building (I hadn't punched in yet heehee). She had 44 residents to herself for over half an evening shift till the DON came in. Then she got fired a few days later because she was sooo difficult to work with. Good riddance. But oh boy, the look on her face.... Priceless. And no I was never disciplined.

[ScrappytheCoco]

Meh...lots of drunks. Lots of cocaine users. One of my drunks came in police custody and when the police said he couldn't be uncuffed from the bed to stand and pee he refused a urinal, sat up and urinated all over the bed and floor as he yelled "take that b$&@!" The physician (in a thick Boston accent and rolling his eyes) "Isn't it fulfilling doing the work of the Lord?"

[CryssyD]

Actually had New Year's Eve off this year, yay--not that I went out and partied; I went to Wal-Mart--there were maybe 3 other shoppers there. It was...weird.

Nothing will ever beat the New Year's Eve working at a hospital in the 'hood: my car got shot. I got off work and found my windshield cracked in a nice spider web pattern with the offending bullet lying nearby.

[vanilla bean]

Worked New Year's Eve 7p-7a. First 4 (ended up being 5) hours of the shift I was floated to a unit that I've never been on before and to which I was not oriented. They gave me 1 patient that was already on the unit, 1 transfer patient, and 2 new admissions Oh ya, did I mention that I'm a new grad nurse with only 9 months on my own specialty unit? Then I got to go to my home unit for a whole new full assignment. At least I got to work the night of the 1st also for all of that sweet, sweet holiday pay. Happy New Year!

[Coldsvt]

I wanted to smack a physician lol

She got mad at me for questioning her orders a on patient she never even examined...didnt even enter this kids room!

I told her i wasnt do anything until she saw the pt. This is also the same physician that was mad at me New Years eve for not giving her a 15min warning before i ran a code blue drill...seriously?

[LizziB]

I'm a residential hospice care nurse. I did the count down with a patient while preparing to give him a catheter. That done I then had to pronounce another patient. All the paperwork and cleaning involved in that and patient one was having severe nausea. Despite being maxed out on his haldol to help with that while my coworker was on break he started vomiting - the partial bowel obstruction adding a 'special' order to the one thing I have difficulty handling. Where everything came from I have no idea. Luckily the next busiest patient only needed breakthrough pain meds q3h.