Products I wish existed

You really, really must follow the Cynical Pharmacist on Facebook.

Everyone really needs some of this, especially on the evening shift.

I can see the commercials now...Cures c-diff, and helps you relax! 

What more could you want?

Just because

Just because I could...

I got one nurse's assignment changed, even though I wanted to him/her suffer, since the lazy a$% is off the next two days. Why? Because I like the patient, and he asked nicely. Slacker Nurse was really a pain over the last few days, and even though he/she had a lower acuity assignment, he/she was perturbed about not texting friends every 10 minutes or so per usual.

I helped one of our students (Student 1) find some research articles related to a patient. And yes, kids, this is considered business-related use of the internet at the Hotel. Student 1 said, "I always feel weird doing that. What if a call light rings?"

"Go answer it and come back to your research when you have time, " I said. Simple. Patients always come before any research. Period. Besides, most of those happy patients didn't ring the light much the last night when I worked with you.

I got Student 2 some networking info from a nurse I never met in another state. Connection? A national  nursing organization and Facebook. Since the job market is so crappy, I don't mind paying back the help I got myself when I was a Almost Done Nursing Student. (Thankfully, the market was great way back then!)

I got one of our patients his/her favorite snack. I brought it in myself.

I got everyone's care done in a timely matter one night recently. Why? I wasn't herding cats that night, i.e. dealing with primadonna doctors and nurses, as well as crabby patients.

Just because, I like to do the unexpected. It really messes some folks up. At least, it keeps them on their toes.

Stay tuned...

Snack attack

I like chips and salsa anyway, but why on earth did someone make the chips healthy enough that you'd want to eat the whole entire bag? Now if they were calorie-free...ah! They were really that good!

At least, I wasn't NPO all day for some labs like the older couple over at the Saintarama Internal Medicine office today. True, Mr. and Mrs. Smith (not their real names) could afford to miss a meal, but be NPO until 3PM? I know their doc (aka Wild Pants) and trust me, if I had had time, I'd have loved to a) see if he was wearing the really weird golf pants today (it is Wednesday) and b) asked him if he had heatstroke, making his people NPO for so long.

Now, I'll just have to get back to working on my photo project I delayed one too many times. Got a deadline now, so I have to make it before school starts.

That is all, so resume snacking. More from the Hotel later!