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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 Noun1.asystole - absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death


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I have this huge framed picture of Yellowstone Park in my bathroom. It's nothing special, it's just a black and white of a creek and some trees, kinda nice to look at. Well, it feel off the wall and broke yesterday and there were bring chunks of the glass in my bathtub, and my Grandma always says that when glass breaks, something bad is going to ( Read more... )

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... )

I found out about Google in 2000. It was one of those things where I thought people were making up the name or telling me it was spelled wrong, like it was supposed to be goggle or something. However, through the years it was proved, to me that to be the easiest way to surf the internet: it beat out yahoo and askjeeves (he was stupid) and I ( Read more... )

Yes! It is true.

First, I got stung by a bee on the right calf.
Next, I got stung by a bee on the left index finger.
Then, I got stung by a bee on the right foot.

All in one day. Never stung by a bee before in all my life and then all of a sudden it was like they were taking revenge for all of the time they missed their opportunity to sting me. ( Read more... )

I passed! I passed! I passed! I passed! I passed!

This, by far the best day of my life so far! Today I proved that I could do the impossible, I could be what you never thought I could be: successful! And I'm soooooo happy!!!

I passed!! Take that!

There was a time when I was so afraid.
I thought I'd reached the end,
But baby that was then
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