I've come to the conclusion that nothing good can come of working Halloween night at a hospital. Especially in an ICU.I'd just gotten report when I found out there was an infant, full cardiac arrest, in the ER and it was coming upstairs... to me. We coded for an additional 40 minutes and lost the battle. I lost my first kid =[ Had we finally gotten ( Read more... )

Every now and then, you have a moment at work that really defines your profession as a nurse. It's not about the meds or assessments. It's about connecting with your patient and making a difference while doing your darn best not to get "attached". Last week I was assigned to a patient with a huge surgery coming up. His spirits were down, but I ( Read more... )

Well, I did it. I completed PICU orientation and now I'm a for-real nurse...and scared shitless =] My first week was last week, which I survived. It was a rocky start but the last half went pretty well. I need to start giving myself more credit for my accomplishments and worry less when I get home. I get home and then start going over everything I ( Read more... )

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After 5 years, I'm still coming back to this thing. An incessant and inconsistent need to blog. We all get the urge I think. One of these days when I have time (haha...) I'll go back and go through 5 years of college drama... then move on to post about the real world drama. I'm finding out there isn't a huge difference in cliques and politics from ( Read more... )

I love coming back to this thing randomly... it's fun to look back and see the various points of my life since getting to college. If only I were more of the consistent journaling type... I have the tendency to be a live journal fanatic for a couple of weeks, and then you won't hear from me for a year or so. I suppose something is better than ( Read more... )

shit it starting to pile up... trying to keep my head above water and take it all one assignment/test/paper/project/miscellaneous issue at a time ( Read more... )

Ok, so I'm off to a decent start for the semester... I got a 90 on my first exam this week and this morning's exam also went well. Not sure what the actual grade is for that, but I'll find out soon enough. They key for me - at least at this point - is study groups. I definitely benefited a lot from studying with 2 or 3 others all week. So I'll go ( Read more... )

I just got back from the first movie I've seen in over a month. You know that the summer is really over when you don't see a movie every weekend. This one was long overdue, not to mention it was good and FREE thanks to having friends in high places ( Read more... )

Life never ceases to throw me for a loop...keep me on my toes. Just when I think that I have things figured out... If you had come to me a year ago, and told me everything that was going to happen in a year, I would say "Ok, it's possible." If you had come to me a month ago and explained the paradigm shift that was about to occur, I would probably ( Read more... )