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3. If your patient is comfort care (has been on a morphine drip) and is gonna go home with hospice or something, make sure you talk with the family and MD about potentially getting the patient off the drip and converting to PO morphine/roxanol/whatevs BEFORE they leave. Ykno, better transition. 

1. There’s a really neat thing called Surgicel used in the OR that is to stop bleeding. It’s kindof amazing. (And very useful when your newly inserted central line is bleeding.

3. Some days straight up suck. Like literally everyone is running around like it’s a madhouse and errbody stays late to chart. Yup. Camaraderie, at its finest.

3. Don’t forget to brush up on your cardiac rhythm recognition skills every now and then!

2. You may get rejections a ton when you dish out applications, but just keep at it faithfully. Always seek to improve yourself and your resume and stuff.

1. If you have time, don’t wait for EVS to come help clean your patient’s room. Grab some bleach or caviwipes or whatever and get the job going! And seriously, patient participation. Encourage that.

1. When the patient or their family gives you their med bottles or whatever to look at, carefully observe the dose and frequency! If you glaze over it, it’s easy to mistake daily for tid (some days). You don’t wanna give them more than what’s necessary.

1. Don’t be afraid to let your noncompliant, uncooperative patients aware of leaving AMA. Honestly it sucks to say, but if you aren’t letting people take care of you in the hospital, frankly, you’re taking up space. Really sick people that really want to get better can be in your spot.