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July 2011 Moms
Mason&Mama
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Night nurse check-in! (and other night owls)
Mason&Mama
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I know that you are both on tonight. How are things going?
I have the easiest assignment that I have had since I came back to work. I feel guilty at how easy my assignment is. What a treat!
Wishing you guys easy assignments as well.
Can I also say that I have three pregnant co-workers now (just found out about 2 of them tonight), and I am so jealous. I loved being pregnant.
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Re: Night nurse check-in! (and other night owls)
YAY!! Night nurse Bump-Fest!
I don't even want to talk about how easy my assignment is tonight, because I will totally jinx myself... I have 3 patients, all stable, all good to go for now. But I am first up for a new admit. I love being underbedded
. And since I work for the government, they never make you take mandatory PTO with a low census.
I have been trying to get caught up...so much going on!
And I have to agree, I loved being pregnant. Even though towards the end I had a lot of bleeding, a lot of water retention, my BP started to rise and I was on and off bed rest and modified bed rest after 33 weeks, I still loved it. And even though at the time bed rest kind of sucked, I look back on it with fondness. Sometimes I think I am ready to get pregnant again, and then other times I think I should be committed for even thinking it at this point! DH and I have decided to start trying at the beginning of next year, and I am just trying to look forward to that.
On that note, I went with one of my coworkers to BRU yesterday. She is 25 weeks pregnant and didn't know what to register for. We went through the WHOLE store and I helped her pick out stuff to register! It was SO MUCH FUN! OMG! And she is having a BOY! So I totally got baby fever HARD to the CORE yesterday! I loved looking at all the stuff and giving her advice and telling her what she did and didn't need. It was awesome! It, again, made me think I am ready to get PG again, and then I went back to being very happy with just B for now.
Jk4eva - I don't think that I have EVER had three patients. Jealous. But like I said, such an easy assignment. The only thing that I can come close to complaining about is dealing with a new type of PCA for my sickle cell patient. No problems so far though. I actually just offered to take a second admit because I am all caught up.
I helped my sister register. So much fun!
Pinup - Welcome to the party. No boxed wine at work. Have a glass for me.
Yes, pinup, I am definitely jealous of your wine situation!
On a side note, our tele tech, lewis, likes to sit in his little tele corner and listen to 70's porno soul music. And every once in a whille he throws in a little diddy himself. It is the dumbest, funniest shizznit ever. It is so awkward! Part of me wants to tell him that no one likes this music, but I would never, it seems to make him happy.
And we all need stuff to make us happy when it is 2 am and we are at work...
Well it's morning here and I did not sleep at all last night because Saoirse got another tooth yesterday (yes, my little circus freak has 5 teeth already) and didn't sleep well. She's already down for her first nap, which I would join her in but DH is sick with a cold now so he's still snoring like a grizzly bear.
God I wish I could join you, Pinup, in a box of wine, but alas I am pregnant. That's something not to envy pregnant women for!
Can I just say that I kind of envy those of you who went back to work. I love being home with Saoirse and I am still technically on maternity leave, though I'm not going back to work for another year, but I miss it for the socialization aspect. Also, not having to be the one to attend to every single need that arises in this house. Taking care of my teething baby, my giant sick baby of a husband, and my own constant need to pee and eat (not at the same time of course) is getting a bit taxing.
Wow, that was a major run-on sentence, but I have no sleep in me. Apologies.
And as far as my easy night goes, I TOTALLY jinxed myself. I offered to take an extra admission even though it's not my turn, and now I have a nightmare patient on the way. I am now dreading the last 3 hours.
And for music, I would rather be listening to porn music than what we have on. It's called "bedtime magic", and if I hear another Celine Dion song I might kill myself.
aaah! M&M! I am sorry to hear you jinxed yourself. SOOO nice of the charge nurse to slam you with a nightmare admit after you were nice and offered to help. I hope its not that bad...! I always cringe when I get cardiac admits with some sort of acute on chronic pain. So then you are doing lab draws and EKGs all night while giving out IVP morphine to crack addicts like candy to kids on halloween. Its always awesome
And hecallsmecat: I have to agree, sick men are a tough crowd for sure. I am sorry your DH is sick! I hope he gets to feeling better and I hope you get some rest soon! And yea, working isn't as great as you remember
...This is definitely a "grass is always greener" discussion though!
Wow, I could never be a nurse.
I do miss the social aspect of work because I ran a child care center so I used to have a lot of fun with the girls that worked for me and had a few good friends there. Just going out to lunch with the girls or planning activities for the kids was really fun. Unfortunately the woman who took over for me is a giant A-hole so when I went on maternity leave half of the girls I liked quit because they couldn't stand working for this woman. Mat leave here is a year so they felt it was hopeless. Now that I am getting another year for the new baby the rest of them quit too so I only have 1 friend still working there. Not worth going back there at all so I may have to find a whole new job next year, for salary and commuting reasons too.
Though if I worked in a place that played Celine Dion songs I think I'd blow my brains out.
Oh, and if you worked in a place with 30 women, no men, and they are all relatively young, you would not think this board is full of drama. If parents knew how child care staff treated each other they would cringe. I swear there are day when I think they are all PMSing at the same time. I don't think I've ever gotten through a full week without someone in my office crying about another staff member being mean to her. Something about being with children all day long makes adults actually start acting like children. Saw the same thing when I used to teach high school.
XoXo
Sarah
BFP#1 10/24/11 EDD 07/01/11 DD1 6/29/11
BFP#2 07/26/12 EDD 03/21/13 M/C(mmc6wk)09/04/12 @~11w
BFP#3 02/08/13 EDD 10/22/13 M/C(mmc6wk)03/11/13 @~8w
BFP#4 06/05/13 EDD 02/19/14 DD2 02/05/14
I don't envy you girls! Our standard is 3 patients. Occassionally you'll have to take 4, like on Monday daycare called because DS had a fever and was refusing to eat, so after 2 hours of trying to get as much work done, getting rid of my discharge and trying to get another nurse to come in, I finally got to leave.
The days of only 2 patients are pretty awesome, too! On the occassion that I only have one patient that's because they're super sick and I won't have anytime away from them anyways.
And I think it was JK that said she doesn't have mandatory PTO - you're lucky!! We take our turn sometimes for mandatory PTO (but sometimes it really nice to get a day off...same for signing up for a voluntary AAO.)
XoXo
Sarah
BFP#1 10/24/11 EDD 07/01/11 DD1 6/29/11
BFP#2 07/26/12 EDD 03/21/13 M/C(mmc6wk)09/04/12 @~11w
BFP#3 02/08/13 EDD 10/22/13 M/C(mmc6wk)03/11/13 @~8w
BFP#4 06/05/13 EDD 02/19/14 DD2 02/05/14
BFP #3 via cancelled IUI ~ C (2lb 3oz; HELLP) 5/16/11
BFP #4 via the natural (free!) way ~ E (8lb 11oz) 9/13/12