It really has been too long since I last wrote about being a nurse.
I'm not sure I've ever really written about being a nurse, now that I
think about it, at least in the real world. As a non-student. And I
just had my 90 day celebration luncheon day before last. It's a thank
you dinner and feedback session with the leadership of Saint Big Dog
hospital that I now work for.
I've gone through my preceptorship already, given nitro pills to acute
chest pain, hung nitro and heparin and cardizem, &came THISCLOSE to
calling a Rapid Response on a patient. I already have patients that
I'll never forget.
Oh yeah, & my dad had a heart attack, had to be defibrillated to be
"brought back," & open heart surgery. CABG x3 or coronary artery
bypass graft...or triple bypass to all my nonmedical readers. That
was a hell for a way to get a lot of first hand experience as a
Cardiac Nurse, I assure you. (he's recovering very well, btw.)
Some of the most outstanding patient stories, good and bad, will be
mashed up, obscured, and details changed so I can retell them here in
this blog.
I just got off my first shift as Charge. Whoa. Oh yeah, AND I work nights now.
I'm holding my own, ya know? *proud. I'm getting good feedback from my
patients (sometimes from my patients to my managers!) almost daily.
I'm gonna try my hardest to live up to that.
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