Whew! Another week over!

It was busy going from evenings to days. Thankfully, when it got really hairy, I was not working evenings.

One nurse was off this week, since a family member recently passed away and she headed out of town for the memorial services. One night in particular was crazy without her. I heard about it on Friday. I'm glad I was not working evenings. I would have just gone crazy!

My time back on the day shift was not bad, just busy. I got to pass meds a couple of days, then just take care of people on Friday. That was lovely, even though I felt like all I did was draw labs and run back and forth. For some reason, labs pulled from PICC lines on our unit always get screwed up. I don't mean sometimes, but most of the time. We get screwy results from the PICC, so then the doc orders a redraw from a vein, which usually drives the patients crazy. I had to do this with one of my patients. He was getting persnickety, so I tried an easy vein, but it didn't work, so I had to use one in the hand for his blood draw. While I'm not the best IV sticker, I can get blood out of hands and arms pretty good. I also like to think that I keep people from getting all bruised up, too, which I normally do. This draw, happily, went as usual.

The same patient needed a Vancomycin trough, so I drew that from the PICC. He was not going to let me get it any other way. I looked up the protocol and followed it to the letter, so I knew
I would not mess it up! I did a lot of fluffing and buffing, so I was happy to be finished.

Today, while I was perusing the paper, I found out one of my favorite patients died. Mr. B., the crazy plumber I took care of at Saintarama died this past week. The obit showed a photo of him that I recognized. It was from a photo with his family that he had in his room. He tried but never succeeded in getting rid of the trach after his illness. I will miss him. He was so funny.

I'm getting up early, early, early Monday morning to drive to the airport. We're taking off to our Pacific Northwest conference. The weather says rain, rain, rain, but at least, we'll be away from Madison. It should be fun. I'm going to have to tinker with mobile Blogger and see how that goes.

Have a great weekend all....more next time!