Saturday, May 20, 2017

Peristaltic Pyrotechnics

5:15am alarm


Getting ready for.....


Arriving and realizing that you're working with all of your favorite coworkers


Looking up a good patient assignment


Or realizing it's gonna be a rough shift


Trying to get report before coffee


Convincing your confused patient to take their medicine


Trying to carry everything you need into a patient's room


Charting+phone calls+Doctors+Call lights


Snack in the break room


So. Many. Call. Lights. 


Trying to understand the doctor's orders


Getting the hard stick IV on the first try


Trying to eat lunch in between phone calls 


When your patient comes up with a question for the
 doctor five minutes after they leave the room


When '"that" patient decides to leave AMA


Cdiff


Walking out of a room of a patient with colonoscopy prep


Getting an admission with 42 medications 
and they don't know what they take


Your patient with a cold being slightly melodramatic


Walking out of an isolation room also turned up to 80 degrees


Keeping your opinion to yourself as a patient corrects 
you with information from WebMD


Reminding all nurses why they chose nursing


End of your shift



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