So Mrs. XXX was incredibly uncomfortable.. She had rectal itching , burning and pain...She is 95 years old... she is given a suppository...About an hour later she says...OMG .. I dont know what you people put in my ASS but I feel so much better ... Gosh I was so uncomfortable!! Thanks so much for putting what ever that was in my ASS!!
She was just going on , and on about what we put in her ass!! It made my day that she felt so much better and was able to sleep...Good day!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
I has been a while....
So I havent posted in a while and thought I would update you all...things are going well at the Job.. I really like it.. somedays ( nights!) more than others. So much has happened since my last post , that by the way when I read it makes me sound like a really shitty nurse. More on that later. I have gotten pretty comfortable at work and like the people I work with.. I dont think there is one that I really dislike. But boy do they sometimes hate each other!! Life at home is good. Kids are doing well. Husband is working and helping out as much as possible.. Got a new car..woohoo...I really like it. Christmas is around the corner and it is nice to have money for it this year.. Many of my classmates have still not found jobs yet. SAD. so back to the patients.
Our annoying patient is still there. Still calling every two minutes. Still demanding. Now refusing to be bathed..The more I think about this patient the more sympathy I feel. It is impossible for this patient to do anything for him self.. cant scratch their nose or change the channel on the TV. This patient is going HOME>>Speaking of nights... I am up now it is 1:37 a. I can not sleep... IT is my day off tomorrow I go back... hmmmm... I will sleep tomorrow ...thinking of planning a Florida Vaca soon... hopefully...
Our annoying patient is still there. Still calling every two minutes. Still demanding. Now refusing to be bathed..The more I think about this patient the more sympathy I feel. It is impossible for this patient to do anything for him self.. cant scratch their nose or change the channel on the TV. This patient is going HOME>>Speaking of nights... I am up now it is 1:37 a. I can not sleep... IT is my day off tomorrow I go back... hmmmm... I will sleep tomorrow ...thinking of planning a Florida Vaca soon... hopefully...
Friday, October 30, 2009
Annoying Patients!
Ok, I was pushed to the brink of sanity this past week and had to share it with you!
This patient we will call Pat for privacy purposes..Pat is unable to speak due to being ventilated, Pat is a quadrapalegic. There is some movement of the arms but not much. I have to say Pat drove me insane. Every five minutes Pat calls on the call bell, fix my head band, fix my pads , bring my pain med, bring my antianxiety med, make sure you bring both again in 4 hours even if I am asleep. I know that this sounds really harsh and insensitive but, If I ask you before I leave the room " Is there anything else I can get for you before I leave?" and you say no and then the second I walk out of the room you call again and this happens EVERYTIME! I go into your room you are being an ASSWHOLE!! I am a patient person, I can usually deal with difficult patients, but he really got my goat. I still went in EVERYTIME he called , even when one of my other patients had to be transfered to the ICU..I still managed to go in and say I will be off the floor for a few minutes are you ok is there anything you need before I go...Pats answer...no I dont need anything...The call light went on the minute I hit the nurses station to get the other patients chart...and of course my coworkers being the way they are ... no one else would enter this room because they also would be sucked in to being in there for 20 min. UGHH!! Thankfully they rotated him to a different nurse after two days. I was glad but still ended up going into Pats room a few times because of course the nurse that had him was very good at ignoring the call bell. I just cant ignore it, maybe thats why I was so stressed...
This patient we will call Pat for privacy purposes..Pat is unable to speak due to being ventilated, Pat is a quadrapalegic. There is some movement of the arms but not much. I have to say Pat drove me insane. Every five minutes Pat calls on the call bell, fix my head band, fix my pads , bring my pain med, bring my antianxiety med, make sure you bring both again in 4 hours even if I am asleep. I know that this sounds really harsh and insensitive but, If I ask you before I leave the room " Is there anything else I can get for you before I leave?" and you say no and then the second I walk out of the room you call again and this happens EVERYTIME! I go into your room you are being an ASSWHOLE!! I am a patient person, I can usually deal with difficult patients, but he really got my goat. I still went in EVERYTIME he called , even when one of my other patients had to be transfered to the ICU..I still managed to go in and say I will be off the floor for a few minutes are you ok is there anything you need before I go...Pats answer...no I dont need anything...The call light went on the minute I hit the nurses station to get the other patients chart...and of course my coworkers being the way they are ... no one else would enter this room because they also would be sucked in to being in there for 20 min. UGHH!! Thankfully they rotated him to a different nurse after two days. I was glad but still ended up going into Pats room a few times because of course the nurse that had him was very good at ignoring the call bell. I just cant ignore it, maybe thats why I was so stressed...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
My take on Nursing So Far
So I have been a nurse for 5 months and this is what I have learned....
Working nights is fun...( sometimes) nurses are some crazy people...Especially night nurses...* ( I will elaborate on our activities at night.)The body is a miraculous thing!* Some nurses dont care about patients...Insulin is to be given for a reason, if you dont check blood sugars as scheduled they will be high when they are checked and the doctor will see this and increase their insulin..then when a nurse gives the large does of antihyperglycemic medication they will bottom out! creating a vicious cycle... of holding insulin..ridiculously high blood sugars...high doses of insulin...bottoming out ...rinse and repeat.... Family members are sometimes unrealistic..others are unbelieveable! some are truly amazing.* Doctors are sometimes assholes! for no good reason, This doctor I work with knows I am a new grad nurse, but still insists on talking to me like I am ignorant...There is so much more but these are the things that I have been thinking about for the past few days.. Now to elaborate...
Nights ...at night ..we do things like drink coffee when possible.. dance sometimes...talk too loud sometime...but drop everything and run when a patient is in need..it is truly amazing to watch..I wish sometimes my family and friends could see what we do..they would be amazed! there is an amazing comradery with nurses that I have not seen anywhere else in any other job.They fight like siblings and talk shit about each other.It is such a dynamic relationship between my co workers. They have clicks like the indian nurses and the philipino nurses , the "foreign nurses aids" and the "american nurses aids" There is also the repiratory therapists..it is a fine balance...The funny thing is that they all share food..not like oh hear have one of my cookies..it is more like a full dinner.shared out of a container and put into what ever cups we have in the cabinet..Coffee..oh boy.. coffee is like gold at my job. People guard their coffee. they keep it under lock and key in their locker.. when it is said..at night "who is making coffee?"it means who HAS coffee..then next is "who has milk?...sugar???it is not often that we have no coffee but it has happened..Oh yeah and the nurses that dont give a shit..like the lovely nurse who so kindly asks me every time I give her report.."can you come in a little early so I can leave early" I say yes of course I am always here by 6:30 p anyway I will just come to you and get report then you can leave.. BUT when it is time for me to leave in the morning and she is a half hour late!!! I was fuming..she is late EVERY DAY and no one says a word!!! I will refuse to take her patients next time...after working 12 hours the last thing you want is a lazy slacker nurse keeping you sitting there! for no good reason!
On amazing patients...I saw a patient who we thought was a vegetable leave with thumbs up and trying to speak...amazing!!
On family members...I have seen and heard family members do and say things you would not believe..like "I am so tired of coming here cant we speed up the dying process some how..?????!!!!! wtf!! No MRS. we can not hurry up you husbands death so you can get on with your life...sorry! and on the other hand there is the wife of the patient who comes EVERY SINGLE DAY AND STAYS FOR THE ENTIRE VISITING HOURS, she is obviously coming from work and she is not a young lady... she is pleasant and I have never heard her complain..ever! she has been coming for about three months! EVERY DAY! Oh and let me tell you about the family who comes with there 5 kids ranging in age from 1year - about 8 or 9 years old..and insists on staying until they are asked to leave..their kids are all over the place, on the floor on the beds... They have been told so many times of the danger they are putting their children in by bring them to this hospital and exposing them to things like C-diff, MRSA, and many others..and just plain disgusting stuff that lands on the floors..
Of all the things I have mentioned above I can say that the most important thing that I have learned is that I am privileged to care for my patients...It seems weird but I have to say that not many people see and do what we do on a daily basis..
I see the good and bad parts of people, hospital, healthcare, families. it is an amazing and tiring job ...did I mention how tiring it gets?
Working nights is fun...( sometimes) nurses are some crazy people...Especially night nurses...* ( I will elaborate on our activities at night.)The body is a miraculous thing!* Some nurses dont care about patients...Insulin is to be given for a reason, if you dont check blood sugars as scheduled they will be high when they are checked and the doctor will see this and increase their insulin..then when a nurse gives the large does of antihyperglycemic medication they will bottom out! creating a vicious cycle... of holding insulin..ridiculously high blood sugars...high doses of insulin...bottoming out ...rinse and repeat.... Family members are sometimes unrealistic..others are unbelieveable! some are truly amazing.* Doctors are sometimes assholes! for no good reason, This doctor I work with knows I am a new grad nurse, but still insists on talking to me like I am ignorant...There is so much more but these are the things that I have been thinking about for the past few days.. Now to elaborate...
Nights ...at night ..we do things like drink coffee when possible.. dance sometimes...talk too loud sometime...but drop everything and run when a patient is in need..it is truly amazing to watch..I wish sometimes my family and friends could see what we do..they would be amazed! there is an amazing comradery with nurses that I have not seen anywhere else in any other job.They fight like siblings and talk shit about each other.It is such a dynamic relationship between my co workers. They have clicks like the indian nurses and the philipino nurses , the "foreign nurses aids" and the "american nurses aids" There is also the repiratory therapists..it is a fine balance...The funny thing is that they all share food..not like oh hear have one of my cookies..it is more like a full dinner.shared out of a container and put into what ever cups we have in the cabinet..Coffee..oh boy.. coffee is like gold at my job. People guard their coffee. they keep it under lock and key in their locker.. when it is said..at night "who is making coffee?"it means who HAS coffee..then next is "who has milk?...sugar???it is not often that we have no coffee but it has happened..Oh yeah and the nurses that dont give a shit..like the lovely nurse who so kindly asks me every time I give her report.."can you come in a little early so I can leave early" I say yes of course I am always here by 6:30 p anyway I will just come to you and get report then you can leave.. BUT when it is time for me to leave in the morning and she is a half hour late!!! I was fuming..she is late EVERY DAY and no one says a word!!! I will refuse to take her patients next time...after working 12 hours the last thing you want is a lazy slacker nurse keeping you sitting there! for no good reason!
On amazing patients...I saw a patient who we thought was a vegetable leave with thumbs up and trying to speak...amazing!!
On family members...I have seen and heard family members do and say things you would not believe..like "I am so tired of coming here cant we speed up the dying process some how..?????!!!!! wtf!! No MRS. we can not hurry up you husbands death so you can get on with your life...sorry! and on the other hand there is the wife of the patient who comes EVERY SINGLE DAY AND STAYS FOR THE ENTIRE VISITING HOURS, she is obviously coming from work and she is not a young lady... she is pleasant and I have never heard her complain..ever! she has been coming for about three months! EVERY DAY! Oh and let me tell you about the family who comes with there 5 kids ranging in age from 1year - about 8 or 9 years old..and insists on staying until they are asked to leave..their kids are all over the place, on the floor on the beds... They have been told so many times of the danger they are putting their children in by bring them to this hospital and exposing them to things like C-diff, MRSA, and many others..and just plain disgusting stuff that lands on the floors..
Of all the things I have mentioned above I can say that the most important thing that I have learned is that I am privileged to care for my patients...It seems weird but I have to say that not many people see and do what we do on a daily basis..
I see the good and bad parts of people, hospital, healthcare, families. it is an amazing and tiring job ...did I mention how tiring it gets?
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Update..
Not much happening here. The Job is still going well.I still feel very green.. but I realize I have learned alot. I do have to say that I am feeling very grateful for my job these days.. I realize that alot of my class mates have not yet found jobs.. I cant imagine the stress and dissapointment they must feel. Working nights is becoming pretty difficult. I worked three 12 hour shifts in a row and I wont do that again. The third day was a killer...It felt like some one was standing on my eyelids..I slept alot the past two days trying to catch up.. Next time I will schedule myself differently...
Saturday, August 15, 2009
New Name.....
Yeah, I figured out a new name for my blog...It was supposed to be "I AM y RN" with the "y" being lower case but for some reason it is puts the title in all caps and it didnt look right. So, TADA!!!! here it is "I AM (y) RN" I wonder if the address will change ??hmmmm something to look into.. So here is my new blog for my new career as a 37 year old newly graduated registered nurse. I have also added Adsense to my blog which I have no idea how it works, but they might send me a check..so sounds good to me. I have been working now for about 4 months and like it very much. I feel very "green" but am learning alot.My kids have been having a hard time adjusting to MOMMY working...nights...Well a little background. My husband works every day of the week so it is inevitable that the kids will have to be home with me while I sleep during the day. Unfortunately, I was so driven to find a job I overlooked the fact that I would need some kind of daycare for my 7 year old while I slept. (during the day) So I have been doing the best I can to sleep with out making them feel like they are living in a library. Not easy...They are very considerate children but it is wearing on the little one. She is bored and in need of attention of ANY kind. She is acting out and BEGGING non stop from the minute I wake up till the minute I go to work. And she is picking fights with the big boy. Which he has no tolerance for. So next summer there will be CAMP or some kind of child care involved...As for the working nights..I like working nights. I actually do not have a hard time sleeping during the day and nights is alot different then days. I wouldnt dare so easier! Oh my gosh I would be called a trader... It is not as fast paced as the day shift. I will get into the whole "days" "nights" /"hatfield" "Mcoy" fued in another post. So anyhoo here is my new blog well same blogger new name , next chapter. ..
Thursday, July 16, 2009
More on things that Challenge me at work.
Ok, I feel totally stupid at work and feel like I am doing just enough to get by.
Well that is not fair to me. I do what needs to be done and If there is something I am not sure of I ask...no matter how stupid I may sound. For instance.. Last night, my patients blood pressure was 179/113, I had no idea what to do..... I asked..I was told to retake it and make sure the cuff was the right size..and guess what. The cuff was too small and when I re took it it was 143/73...LESSON LEARNED. Thankfully the nurse I was working with was kind enough to then fill me in on what to do when a patient has a high BP. Now I know.. The aids are still the same. I started to do more "aid" stuff with my patients until I realized that the more I did the less the did and the more SLEEP they got at night...UGGHH!! sooooo last night I simply and very sweetly said things like..."oh I am sorry to wake you but room # ____ had a bowel movement can you go clean them and if you need help let me know"....It seems to work..Did I mention how much every one complains!! There are two respiratiory therapists who do nothing but COMPLAIN and when they work together..thats all they do!!!!COMPLAIN!! from the minute they walk in the door to the minute they leave...OMG STOP COMPLAINING OR FIND ANOTHER JOB!!! IT is not that bad... SHUT THE FUCK UP!! (sorry) I really like my job and I am learning alot... It makes me mad when people are nothing but negative...If you are unhappy CHANGE WHAT IS MAKING YOU UNHAPPY!! or SHUT UP...I find that if you are positive people respond to you positively ..after a while...Negativity is contagious.....By the way dilaudid is the DEVIL!!! It changes little old ladies into junkies who beg for it and will do anything to get it. ( just a little side note) Still trying to figure out how to change the name of my blog. I dont even know how to change it with out loosing all my posts. Name suggestions are welcome to all my millions of readers....(lol)
Well that is not fair to me. I do what needs to be done and If there is something I am not sure of I ask...no matter how stupid I may sound. For instance.. Last night, my patients blood pressure was 179/113, I had no idea what to do..... I asked..I was told to retake it and make sure the cuff was the right size..and guess what. The cuff was too small and when I re took it it was 143/73...LESSON LEARNED. Thankfully the nurse I was working with was kind enough to then fill me in on what to do when a patient has a high BP. Now I know.. The aids are still the same. I started to do more "aid" stuff with my patients until I realized that the more I did the less the did and the more SLEEP they got at night...UGGHH!! sooooo last night I simply and very sweetly said things like..."oh I am sorry to wake you but room # ____ had a bowel movement can you go clean them and if you need help let me know"....It seems to work..Did I mention how much every one complains!! There are two respiratiory therapists who do nothing but COMPLAIN and when they work together..thats all they do!!!!COMPLAIN!! from the minute they walk in the door to the minute they leave...OMG STOP COMPLAINING OR FIND ANOTHER JOB!!! IT is not that bad... SHUT THE FUCK UP!! (sorry) I really like my job and I am learning alot... It makes me mad when people are nothing but negative...If you are unhappy CHANGE WHAT IS MAKING YOU UNHAPPY!! or SHUT UP...I find that if you are positive people respond to you positively ..after a while...Negativity is contagious.....By the way dilaudid is the DEVIL!!! It changes little old ladies into junkies who beg for it and will do anything to get it. ( just a little side note) Still trying to figure out how to change the name of my blog. I dont even know how to change it with out loosing all my posts. Name suggestions are welcome to all my millions of readers....(lol)
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