Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Horrible night at work

Last night was one of the hardest shifts at work. It was just one thing over the other. It started out pretty good, but then I transfered one pt, got an ER admit whom I had to code rapid response because his BP from the beginning was really low, and then less than an hour after that I already had another transfer. Thankfully that transfer was from another unit and she was stable and easy. When I finally sat down to chart around 5am (yes, I was charting the 8pm assessments at 5am), I get a phone call that one of my pt's is complaining of a swollen arm. I take a look and his entire hand and forearm are completely swollen from an infiltrated IV. Since this is somthing I've never seen before, I called over one of the senior nurses. At the end of the night, everything did get done and everyone was stable, but I left finally at 9am feeling completely exhasted and insufficient. I was tired at the beginning of shift to start with and all I wanted was an easy stress-free night....well the universe had another plan for me. When I was leaving, all I wanted was to get a hug from my Jonny and RELAX finally. Well I got to relax right away, but I had to wait till much later to get my hug (which was wonderful!). The begest thing I learned was that I need to learn more....I need to go back and review meds and a bunch of other things. Several times last night I felt like I should have known somthing and I didn't. That feeling of insufficiensy is not a good feeling. Well, I guess I got something to do for the next couple of weeks. Right now I'm just going to forget work and concentrate on the rest of my life. I have 2 days off and I'm excited.

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