The Quiet of the Night
If I am annoying anyone with my updates, I am so sorry. But, I am mundo bored right now. I am taking my break at work.
Let me let everyone in on a little secret about nursing. Most of the time, nursing is one of the toughest possible careers a person could choose. It is intellectually challenging, physically demanding (3 herniated discs later), emotionally and spiritually taxing, and can give you the type of stress non-medical people only have nightmares about.
My work as a nurse has taught me lessons about life that nothing else could have. It has toughened me and softened me in varied ways. It, surprisingly enough, has made life more humorous to me, and has taught me not to be too serious (yeah, I can get a little intense at times, and very introspective).
I work rehab in peds, which means I work with kids who have had horrible, crazy things happen in their lives, from teens with spinal cord injury and paralysis, to toddlers with 80% body surface burns, to kids who just woke up one day, perfectly normal, and had a stroke -- out of nowhere.
Part of the reason I like my job is because I get very bored, very quickly with things that are always the same.
Rehab at night is quiet, because my patients are ASLEEP! No, we don't wake them up 18 times a night on rehab, because these kids have to get up and work all day! Therapies are very strenuous and these kids NEED sleep.
So, tonight is so quiet and boring I am getting quite antsy. I am begging for things to do.
However, in my line of work, that is very, very good. Because the alternative means, usually, that one or more of my patients is in pain, or destabilizing -- which means suffering for them and big stress for the staff.
Since I am doing a lot of overtime (at night) over the next few weeks, don't be surprised if you see a lot of updates. Nothing to say, really, just passing the time.
Izumi
-or-
Darcy Ann:)
Let me let everyone in on a little secret about nursing. Most of the time, nursing is one of the toughest possible careers a person could choose. It is intellectually challenging, physically demanding (3 herniated discs later), emotionally and spiritually taxing, and can give you the type of stress non-medical people only have nightmares about.
My work as a nurse has taught me lessons about life that nothing else could have. It has toughened me and softened me in varied ways. It, surprisingly enough, has made life more humorous to me, and has taught me not to be too serious (yeah, I can get a little intense at times, and very introspective).
I work rehab in peds, which means I work with kids who have had horrible, crazy things happen in their lives, from teens with spinal cord injury and paralysis, to toddlers with 80% body surface burns, to kids who just woke up one day, perfectly normal, and had a stroke -- out of nowhere.
Part of the reason I like my job is because I get very bored, very quickly with things that are always the same.
Rehab at night is quiet, because my patients are ASLEEP! No, we don't wake them up 18 times a night on rehab, because these kids have to get up and work all day! Therapies are very strenuous and these kids NEED sleep.
So, tonight is so quiet and boring I am getting quite antsy. I am begging for things to do.
However, in my line of work, that is very, very good. Because the alternative means, usually, that one or more of my patients is in pain, or destabilizing -- which means suffering for them and big stress for the staff.
Since I am doing a lot of overtime (at night) over the next few weeks, don't be surprised if you see a lot of updates. Nothing to say, really, just passing the time.
Izumi
-or-
Darcy Ann:)