good day?

the last two days at work have been... well... fiascoes.

on saturday i was supernumery so i agreed to spend the day out in emerg with 2 other nurses and "gain experience". And that i did. I got abandoned in the trauma room with a patient at risk of needing intubation. But i survived and she survived and no one yelled at me for things i did or did not do.

yesterday i was back on the floor as per usual. the new resident kept asking me two things: am i annoying you yet? are you having a good day?
i like the new resident because she's nice and when we were in a critical situation i could ask HER to help ME with things and not have to call in another nurse. just because she's a doctor doesn't mean that assistance should be unidirectional.

it was chaos. we had a labouring mother who's labour wasn't progressing and needed an emergency c-section and we didn't have a maternity nurse available in the whole town. luckily, one of the maternity doctors agreed to stay and help out the midwife (who i think is the biggest nob ever. the midwife, not the doctor. i really like the doctor. but the midwife, i just want to shake her to see if it will wake up her brain. so mean of me, but so true).
There was a cardiac patient out in emergency who needed the cardiac monitor that one of my patients was on (the one from the trauma room the day before). We moved my patient into the next room and then.... she has... a HEART ATTACK.

Lots of running around. But at the end of the day, the other RN on the floor, the unit clerk, and myself were reflecting on the day. It was insane but it went well all things considered. I felt very fortunate to have had the staff that i had. The other RN was awesome about checking in with me that i was ok with my lady who was infarcting and if i needed help. I liked that she offered continuously but did not take over. She trusted me to know my limits. And i appreciated that. I need to be able to handle these things. I appreciated that she asked, when all was said and done, if i was ok with what had happened with my patient. If we had had different doctors who weren't easily approachable, who we had to beg to come look at patients, it would have been a bad day indeed. But as it stands, it was just busy with lots of really sick people. Busy, but not bad.

And now i have TWO WHOLE DAYS OFF. Two days to watch the snow fall, clean my stinky house, nap on the couch, and study ACLS.