playing dress ups

i went to work today.
(note to self: STOP PICKING UP SHIFTS WHEN YOU ARE TIRED. Like today. And tomorrow)

there were LPN students EVERYWHERE.
well, until their instructor got sick and they all had to leave and dumped all their patients on us and we spent the remaining 8 hours trying to figure out what they had done, had done wrong, and had neglected to do.

i had one patient in ICU (a cardiac), another Cardiac, a suicidal pediatric patient, an Overdose, an Alcohol Withdrawal (i am torn between my dislike for alcohol withdrawal protocols and my dislike of cardiacs), and a Seizure Precaution patient.

and the patient with dementia who's been driving me BONKERS forever wasnt even my patient and i had had enough of her. Her nurse offered to sell her to us. Ha! The best thing about her was this one time, when i went into her room to do something for her, when i was finished she said "you should be a nurse!".

but the Best Part of the Day was that one of the doctors, Dr. M, who was doing the anesthesia in the OR today kept calling me down there to do the IVs for her (so i could practice since i'm a junior nurse) and it felt pretty cool to walk into the OR wing and have them waiting with a labcoat and cap for me and walk into the actual OR and hang out with the Dr. and then the patient would come in and we'd be all professional in our caps and labcoats and consult over their veins.