I SURVIVED

I think im starting to love my job. aside from the occupational hazards that comes with it, i think i can actually say at this point that i love it. but its driving me nuts sometimes. tee-hee.

i survived the weekend shift. it wasn't disastrous at all. the nurses were nice and gave me stable patients that i can discharge.

and then they were not too nice (hehe) by the time i came back on Wednesday. I WAS HAPPY in the beginning of my shift, coz i thought that surgical nursing wasn't that bad as the other nurses paint it to be (they always roll their eyes when they emphasize how busy the floor was) - i was discharging 3 patients before noon and i was ecstatic!! but i guess i celebrated too soon because with discharges comes... ADMISSIONS! (duh?). i got 2 from Post-Anesthesia and 1 from Intensive Care by 4pm. that is 3x the FUN FUN FUN (**rolling my eyes as i type this**). by THURSDAY i got this patient who was so obsessed with his Continuous Bladder Irrigation he keeps staring at it that the minute it trickles down to a low (and which is functional still by the way), he calls ME upset, refuses to lie down and relax in the "soft bed - it hurts my back" bed, and gives me plumbing theories about why the tube doesn't seem to work while insulting the "doctors that you think they're so smart" when i have a gazillion things to finish before i leave @ 7:30 (i ended up leaving at 9pm the past consecutive days). i tell you right now that this is BAD. i wake up @ 5:30am everyday and don't get to leave til at least get home by 9pm on a busy day so that's like 15 hours awake! i swear i think thats the reason why i am 7lbs short when i stepped on the scale this morning.

but then again i can't always focus on the negative aspect of all these right? i like what i'm doing. i especially enjoy it when i'm changing someones wound dressings. or do my head-to-toe assessments, or make concoctions of antibiotics, morphines, working the PCA's, talking to doctors, giving reports, and etc.. makes me think that all those knowledge i've learned in school is finally paying off. and i like the fact that i am doing all right. a nurse came up to me one day and said my charting was EXCELLENT and my resume reflects a future PhD candidate. that really means a lot to me because here i am thinking that i have no clue when i am actually turning out ok.

so yeah tha's it for me for my latest updates. i might need to get some stress tabs at the grocery later. :)