1. Work is still work, wasn't what I was expecting but at least I'm employed and I'm very thankful for that. Some things happened and it made me very angry and I dwelled on it so long that it was eating me up inside and I was losing sleep over it. Gladly, issues have been clarified and though the situation isn't ideal right now it's progress and I ( Read more... )

It's true, from the first day that I started, I was told that the shit always hits the fan on Wednesday, and so far I have not been proven wrong once!

Last Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, I worked in ICU. We sent our patient to the OR to get a permicath for dialysis. My pt was a older gentleman, around 60's who was in chronic renal failure ( Read more... )

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I survived my first week as a Critical Care nurse! How that happened, I have no clue! But I did it! I'm excited and today is pay day!

So my week was definitely eventful. On my first day, Sunday, within the first hour of my shift (starting at 7 am), barely meeting my preceptor, my patient was already bleeding from his trache and it wasn't stopping! ( Read more... )