Ever had one of those days where your running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to get everything done and called in multiple directions and you forget to do one minor...and I mean minor thing and you get reprimanded for it?


Fuckers....


Ive had a couple of rough days at work and last tuesday was particularly rough because I had a patient that was getting a procedure done that as a nurse I didnt agree that it was in the best interest of the patient...

(Remember a nurse ALWAYS hads your best interest in mind) 

So im arguing with the doctors and voicing my opinions which arent being heard at all...I dont know anything I just take care of the child for 12 hours and have been for several months shes been here which is BEYOND frustrating, I also had a student and orienting a new nurse. Had a parent that was about to flip because the residents werent sure if they were going home or not and need home care nursing set up and an admission that just arrived with very upset parents that their newborn child was sick. 

Altogether a very stressfull, emotional day but I kept my composure and went along with it...same bullshit different day but I was asked to get a height on a patient by the end of the day....

My day ends at 8pm. They come to me at 3 to see if I got the height....and to be honest...I forgot, a height was the last thing on my mind with all the shit going on for the day....I was approached by another nurse to just do it....SO I cut my lunch short and did the damn height....when I finally sit down I get lectured by my manager that the height should have been done and did I have anyone working with me? 

I tell her I had a student and my orientee. I got off the phone and she called by 2 minutes later and said. "For future reference you can delegate that task out" 

WTF?!?!?!?


That was the straw that broke the camels back and I cried at work....I NEVER cry at work, I try not to let shit get to me but damn it seems all the time I bust my ass around here and never recieve a "good job, nice work" something and when I finally here from my manager its to reprimand me on a height needed for data collection????!?!?


Man......FUCK IT

And this isnt the first time either....you can get people with honey than you can with vinegar but I hadnt cried like that in a long time...not to mention in front of the orientee I lost it....

Just further confirmation that I need to stick to my five year plan....I know it will be the same bullshit anywhere I go but its the people that make the bullshit bearable....


I need a drink

Well actually I HATE working the weekend of daylight savings...Last year I worked night shift when the time change and it made a 12hr shift a 11hr shift....much nicer...

But this year I was on days and I'll be damn if my body wanted to jump up and slap me when my alarm went off this morning at 5am. 

I feel like I got a IV bolus of molassess as slow as Im moving today and to put the icing on the cake EVERYBODY is slow today, everybody was late somehow today  and probably will be for the next couple of days. 

But so far its been one of those kick you in the teeth days and I remember why I didnt go into adult care....

Im strictly pediatric....I dont do adults for a reason....and as a pediatric hospital I dont think we should admit adults over a certain age (50) if they still what is considered a pediatric disease....granted they are living longer than years ago when they didnt make it past 20 but we do not have the appropriate means to take care of this person...I say send them next door (hospital next door that takes adults)

But that just my 2 cents plus that stuff about "Its a big kid" is bullshit.....

Okay, I feel a little better now.....

I wont even allow myself to hope my day gets better just for the simple fact that I dont want to jinx it. 

Oh just a tip I want to pass along to any of you all who have children especially young ones...For the love of god if your nurse is trying to get a blood draw from their foot and they have a strong as shit kick?!?!......Help the nurse out and hold the leg PLEASE!!!!!

Ducking a bloody foot isn't amusing.....