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Saturday, October 5, 2013

Things I have learned After One Month On The Floor




Working


  • You will piss SOMEONE off at least once a day.
  • "Accuchecks ACHS" will be your least favorite words in report.
  • You can sit quietly, all caught up, from 1730-1850 and then the shit will hit the fan (sometimes literally)
  • 85-year-old guys like to flirt with nurses.
  • The value of an amazing, calm, wonderful preceptor.
  • To trust my instincts. A lot of the time they are right.
  • To keep checklists
  • Not to make the same mistakes twice.
  • You can squirt heparin REALLY far by accident. All over the unit far.
  • White scrub tops are not very practical
  • Clorox bleach wipes get Betadine out of white scrub tops really well, but they ruin the t shirt you are wearing underneath.
  • Sticky notes are STILL your friend and forever will be.
  • How to lasso a COW.
  • That lancets have more than one setting and there is a 'deep puncture' setting. Sorry patients.
  • How to get to the break-room, finally.
  • how to find my car after work.
  • How to put on EKG leads properly so the monitor room does not call and say, "Your patient's EKG is upside down"
  • Things you will never ever do in real life: miter the corner of as sheet. Things you will definitely do in real life: hide from JHACO
  • Following the charge nurse will be so boring you will beg someone to let you do an enema.



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