Today wasn't too bad, actually!
I was nervous about today as it is the weekend as more family come in & ask more questions & I haven't worked as a RN on the weekend b4 etc. etc. but it actually wasn't too bad.
We got to leave 1/2 hr early, actually ... the ward are pretty empty ... only had 3 patients with a simple admission right before lunch! :D
Nothing really noteworthy happened except:
I got to do a dressing: it was open (as it went deeper than the skin) & needed to be packed with gauze - this can be really painful for the patient as thin cloth like material is placed next to/top of etc. their nerve endings! Yep, not nice ... packing it (and changing the packing regularly!) ensures the wound doesn't just heal over at skin level & leave a hollow within ... which allows for infection etc. NOT good at all!! Anyway, I had to clean, pack & dress this patient's wound ... I was really nervous as i haven't done one in most like 6months or something!! Some wards allow assistants to do the dressings ... so I have done some ... but I just asked the other RN to come in with me! :D
I was again amazed by the team leader (I swear this woman has 50 different personalities!) .. she found out one the RNs who has moved here from an Asian country was able to save up for her family to arrive ... who just got here a few days again .. & the team leader found she didn't have anything ... not even a fridge ... so all of a sudden, a collection bucket went around & b/t the morning & afternoon staff ... $130 (enough for a bar fridge to get her started) was raised .. in the space of 10mins! :D The poor girl was so embarrassed she started to cry! Poor thing ... she just keep saying "I don't know how to say thank you!" It was definately a moving moment ... I could see a human heart in the team leader!! :D (thank goodness, I was starting to wonder!)
I made an embarrassing comment ... In my tape recording of handover ... I said that a patient was in with LUL pnemonia and stated the LUL was Left Upper Lung pnemonia instead of Left Upper Lobe!!! I mean it is in the lung & everything ... but it is a quarter of the lung instead of the whole lung!! Goodness!! Embarrassing!! :P
I also got my ear chewed out at lunchtime - not in a bad way, just bloody annoying way!! I had a late lunch b/c I had a new admission so I was hungry & tired & this assistant keep going on about how management doesn't help out & they should have different system with assistants to assist the RNs etc. Basically everything he said I agreed with but in the process he was knocking RNs in that we don't assess our patients properly & we only copy what the RN in the previous shift wrote ... and it is the assistants who notice the changes & change them etc. It was kinda annoying b/c i do know a lot of people do do that & it is annoying but it is a not a 100% true fact ... & he just keep going on & on ... I finally had to say something like "Look, i agree with you ... you don't need to convince" ... he just walked away mumuring "Yep, well, management upstairs isn't convinced!" ... if I had been another person in the room or if I wasn't so hungry & trying to enjoy my late lunch i would have found it almost funny ... such passion!! :p
So, yep, two more days to go!! :D Before a break! :D
Oh, yeah, the flirty RN came in this afternoon & yep, he flirts with everyone!! :D And i was annoyed at myself that I actually blushed ... when I made some flirty comment about how I had told the team leader that I really liked him & that she was trying to set us up (flirty lies, of course!) ... but as soon as I said it, I blushed ... it isn't because I like ... I think it is just that I have never flirted with co-workers before ... flirting is left for ToyBoys, crushs & boyfriends! Work, & school - I next to never flirt! Also, i don't know these nurses that much either ... so I really don't know how much I can push it with them ... e.g. i know I can tempt the ToyBoys with bondage & cooking!! And it works, too! :D
Anyway, I am signing off b/c apart from work, my life is incredibly dull at the moment ... but considering that work is basically taking up all my energy, strength & most of my time ... that doesn't really leave much left over, huh?
Till next time!
Blue Nurse!
We got to leave 1/2 hr early, actually ... the ward are pretty empty ... only had 3 patients with a simple admission right before lunch! :D
Nothing really noteworthy happened except:
I got to do a dressing: it was open (as it went deeper than the skin) & needed to be packed with gauze - this can be really painful for the patient as thin cloth like material is placed next to/top of etc. their nerve endings! Yep, not nice ... packing it (and changing the packing regularly!) ensures the wound doesn't just heal over at skin level & leave a hollow within ... which allows for infection etc. NOT good at all!! Anyway, I had to clean, pack & dress this patient's wound ... I was really nervous as i haven't done one in most like 6months or something!! Some wards allow assistants to do the dressings ... so I have done some ... but I just asked the other RN to come in with me! :D
I was again amazed by the team leader (I swear this woman has 50 different personalities!) .. she found out one the RNs who has moved here from an Asian country was able to save up for her family to arrive ... who just got here a few days again .. & the team leader found she didn't have anything ... not even a fridge ... so all of a sudden, a collection bucket went around & b/t the morning & afternoon staff ... $130 (enough for a bar fridge to get her started) was raised .. in the space of 10mins! :D The poor girl was so embarrassed she started to cry! Poor thing ... she just keep saying "I don't know how to say thank you!" It was definately a moving moment ... I could see a human heart in the team leader!! :D (thank goodness, I was starting to wonder!)
I made an embarrassing comment ... In my tape recording of handover ... I said that a patient was in with LUL pnemonia and stated the LUL was Left Upper Lung pnemonia instead of Left Upper Lobe!!! I mean it is in the lung & everything ... but it is a quarter of the lung instead of the whole lung!! Goodness!! Embarrassing!! :P
I also got my ear chewed out at lunchtime - not in a bad way, just bloody annoying way!! I had a late lunch b/c I had a new admission so I was hungry & tired & this assistant keep going on about how management doesn't help out & they should have different system with assistants to assist the RNs etc. Basically everything he said I agreed with but in the process he was knocking RNs in that we don't assess our patients properly & we only copy what the RN in the previous shift wrote ... and it is the assistants who notice the changes & change them etc. It was kinda annoying b/c i do know a lot of people do do that & it is annoying but it is a not a 100% true fact ... & he just keep going on & on ... I finally had to say something like "Look, i agree with you ... you don't need to convince" ... he just walked away mumuring "Yep, well, management upstairs isn't convinced!" ... if I had been another person in the room or if I wasn't so hungry & trying to enjoy my late lunch i would have found it almost funny ... such passion!! :p
So, yep, two more days to go!! :D Before a break! :D
Oh, yeah, the flirty RN came in this afternoon & yep, he flirts with everyone!! :D And i was annoyed at myself that I actually blushed ... when I made some flirty comment about how I had told the team leader that I really liked him & that she was trying to set us up (flirty lies, of course!) ... but as soon as I said it, I blushed ... it isn't because I like ... I think it is just that I have never flirted with co-workers before ... flirting is left for ToyBoys, crushs & boyfriends! Work, & school - I next to never flirt! Also, i don't know these nurses that much either ... so I really don't know how much I can push it with them ... e.g. i know I can tempt the ToyBoys with bondage & cooking!! And it works, too! :D
Anyway, I am signing off b/c apart from work, my life is incredibly dull at the moment ... but considering that work is basically taking up all my energy, strength & most of my time ... that doesn't really leave much left over, huh?
Till next time!
Blue Nurse!
posted by blue nurse | 9:57 PM
2 Comments:
glad that today was pretty good and that your discovering flirty can cover invade almost any aspect of life....and usually minus death, cause that'd be awkward...
My blogroller won't update when someone has post a new entery so I've missed heaps of your posts which sucks! How are you?
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