Rolling into Super weekend

Yes, it's not any old weekend...it's Super Bowl weekend! Go Cardinals!

Anyway, it was back to the evening shift for me and it's been run, run, run ever since. I got lassoed into a med cart again, and since the census is close to our max, it's busy. Lots of fun stuff going on, including,

1. The charge got to write up an incident report the other night for an omitted IV. The IV nurse (yes, we have those sometimes) forgot--by several hours for this big-deal drug. He/she was embarrassed by the whole thing and I think he/she's learned a valuable lesson...don't surf and play with IVs. Said nurse might not have missed the time if he/she hadn't been on the 'net...just an observation as I was running back and forth down the hall.

2. The good cop/bad cop incident is okay, so far. Lovely manager assigned me to patient on Thursday. Charge talked to him and he's been civil to me so far. I know he's still irritated (he tells people this on the phone) but I think he realizes it's for his own good, since he got a new little PU on him since the incident. He's really a pressure relief/turning advocate now!

3. The Slug was with us again the last couple of nights. It's really a pain that no one does anything about her. If I hear how "valuable" she is one more time, I'm going to throw up! How valuable is an employee who's making six figures yet is too poor to go to FedEx or some place else to do her long distance faxes, and other assorted no-nos, like parking her kids in the nurses' station (that's right, next to the computers) until it's time to go home? Oh, I really would love to see the JC inspectors do a site visit with her working evenings!

Nevertheless, I get to work with one of the best charge nurses we have all weekend. It helps when you feel like someone's got your back if you need it!

More goodies later...stay tuned.