Half Great Adventures

And because I’m an idiot, it’s not on silent. And because I’m and idiot nerd my ring tone is the theme to “Bill Nye the Science Guy” 🤦‍♀️

Lord help me

Joint Commission shows up. (They’ve been ‘coming’ since December)

As screamed at me like an 8 year old. NGL, I laughed as I started putting him in restraints

Called a code on the floor for a kiddo, this particular kids' second time in a week. Managed to turn off the lights TWICE trying to unplug O2 from the regulator. Just wanted to turn the place into a disco I guess

Said coding kiddo was going brady and hypertensive, classing Cushing's Triad. After an extensive medical work up, found out he was likely vasovagaling. Kid literally trying to die while pooping. My nightmare.

Had a very frequent flyer, that was pretty healthy, get a sudden and totally unrelated life threatening illness. Mom was spiraling in my arms and I gave her my favorite hospital cocktail of sprite and OJ. Closest to a mimosa I can get in a children's hospital.

We had to transfer this kiddo to PICU, wound up bringing her to the same room where my all time favorite primary teen spent several weeks. I used to go down there every night shift I worked and talk to parents while the kiddo was sedated and intubated. She ended up passing away after that admission.

Realized it's been almost 5 years since she passed away and maybe why that's why I keep seeing her mom's face out of the corner of my eye, even though parents moved out of state years ago.

Got overtired after working 3 in a row (which I hate) and became obsessed with thinking through how I would put an NG down my cat. Then looked up cats with NGs at 1am on Google. Rather than just going to bed like a sane person.

Taught 5 hours of CPR this week (usually I'll do 2-3 hours in a month). 3 of those hours were to families, 1 in Turkish, 1 in Spanish and 1 in English. Then teaching BLS for PALS today my lungs popped on one of my adult mannequins, and then my replacement mannequin's batteries died. So I performed a lung transplant and replacement pacemaker. Pretty good for an RN scope of practice.

Did I just buy these for “work” this holiday season?

Life Updates:

Got a new job in outpatient hematology since inpatient was making me have horrid anxiety.

Now I have horrid anxiety about how much I don't know and all the parts of the CBC I've ignored up until now.

But now at least I have a cubicle.

So win some, lose some.

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Guess that's the big stuff.

It was one of my adult med-surg clinicals on a neurology and my patient had died just before 7am (on comfort care). There wasn't any family at the bedside so me and one of the CNAs did the post mortem bath and all that.

But I still had to have a live patient (care plans gotta care yo), so I got an overflow patient who had just had a penile implant placed by urology. He had been in a devastating car wreck several years before and was more than happy to show off the results of his last reconstructive surgery.

So there I was bouncing between placing toe tags and watching a patient squeeze his balls.