Oh, the natives are getting restless, and for a moment, I didn't know why. Ah, the full moon! It was one of those days recently. Everything and nothing goes right.
One patient I follow is still ditching me for his/her monthly follow-up. Since I have to report to his/her provider re: progress, this makes things sticky. Try, try, again.
I am finally (maybe) getting resources to start a program I proposed earlier this year. Got clearance from the local committee and everything. If all goes as planned, the key pieces will fall into place next week. I'll still be sending prayer requests to my favorite nuns, monks, and old ladies, though. Working in this arena is rewarding, but endlessly frustrating with the amount of backtracking I have to do.
Thank goodness some of my folks still love me!
And speaking of the love, my next door neighbor and I found out our abstracts have been accepted to one of our favorite conferences.
The show WILL hit the road again, just in time for hurricane season, Labor Day and a family wedding. Why not have everything big happen in one week's time?
Stay tuned and enjoy your weekend! Happy Easter to all who celebrate!
More later...
Showing posts with label weekends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weekends. Show all posts
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Sunday, February 3, 2013
The tradition..super
The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public. ~Phyllis Diller
For many years, I actually got paid to watch Super Bowl commercials thanks to a guy named Bob and a job in a marketing department. (That was fun!)
Since I left that job almost a decade ago, now I just have to watch the commercials from home. When I first became a nurse, it seemed like my weekend to work was literally EVERY Super Bowl Sunday. So since I'm not there anymore, it was no surprise that the nurse manager (only half jokingly) asked if I wanted to work today.
It seems no one wants to work Super Bowl Sunday if they can be at home partying it up. Sometimes we get volunteers coming in for Super Bowl, but not always.
Nevertheless, the rehab nurses at the Hotel can totally love this Super Bowl cake photo. It will describe their evening shift...thanks to Cake Wrecks.
Stay tuned...and have a Supper bowl wherever you are.
For many years, I actually got paid to watch Super Bowl commercials thanks to a guy named Bob and a job in a marketing department. (That was fun!)
Since I left that job almost a decade ago, now I just have to watch the commercials from home. When I first became a nurse, it seemed like my weekend to work was literally EVERY Super Bowl Sunday. So since I'm not there anymore, it was no surprise that the nurse manager (only half jokingly) asked if I wanted to work today.
It seems no one wants to work Super Bowl Sunday if they can be at home partying it up. Sometimes we get volunteers coming in for Super Bowl, but not always.
Nevertheless, the rehab nurses at the Hotel can totally love this Super Bowl cake photo. It will describe their evening shift...thanks to Cake Wrecks.
Stay tuned...and have a Supper bowl wherever you are.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Weekend delights
Child who stays up late wakes up early...at 0500.
Why? There's a leak in his room from the dehumidifier he noticed when he got out of bed.
Husband's cell phone has an annoying chirp whenever the battery runs low on power. This started going off before 0500.Trying to hunt it down in the dark was a treat, since it only beeps every 30 seconds.
Dog is now barking, because, don't you know it's 0600 and you people usually feed me by now.
Will be so glad when they leave to go to the driving range so I can go back to sleep...
Why? There's a leak in his room from the dehumidifier he noticed when he got out of bed.
Husband's cell phone has an annoying chirp whenever the battery runs low on power. This started going off before 0500.Trying to hunt it down in the dark was a treat, since it only beeps every 30 seconds.
Dog is now barking, because, don't you know it's 0600 and you people usually feed me by now.
Will be so glad when they leave to go to the driving range so I can go back to sleep...
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Nuggets for February 25
Yes, I'm a little behind, but I've been saving up so many goodies I've found, I thought this would be a better use of my time at this very moment, instead of getting ready for work.
Here are a few of the items I've found out on the 'net and in the blogosphere while meandering. Hope you enjoy!
Tips and tricks
Ian from impactEDnurse has a great little video about keeping air bubbles out of your IV
lines.
Not Nurse Ratched has an informal tip for you (or your patients) experiencing nausea. Not sure where it came from, but would be happy to do the research. The Hotel is full of smells, particularly on evenings.
While it's not a specific trick, this PBS segment on Dr. Atul Gawande's book, The Checklist Manifesto, talks about using checklists in hospitals and health care.
Jo has a survival guide to the night shift at her blog, Head Nurse.
Check 'em out
If you work odd hours, such as evenings, nights and weekends, you need to check out Life in the Trenches: Nursing at Night and on the Weekend. This blog is a part of Dr. Patti Hamilton of Midwestern State University's RWJF funded research project about nursing at these times of day and what happens.
We've heard a lot about the Haiti earthquake's wake lately, and one thing, you don't always hear about is how to meet the psychosocial needs of patients after disaster. Somehow, I stumbled upon this interesting CEU article called Psychiatric Emergency: Caring for Patients in Crisis.
The OMG section
Rehab is predominantly a low-tech area of nursing, because patients need to get up and running with a minimal number of devices. As an escaped techie, though, I never cease to be amazed by all the technological prodecures and devices that are on the market or will be there soon.
Liver transplants that do their job, then fade away is about a transplantation procedure, used primarily in kids, featured recently in the NY Times.
Coping
Bravo Roger! I found the Well blog article over at the NY Times which discusses life for Roger Ebert since his cancer surgery. Appearance is not everything. You might just blurt stuff out, as your wife says, but sometimes they are things we just need to hear.
Scuba diving accessible to people with disabilities? Check it out here in this article. (from www.pva.org)
Here are a few of the items I've found out on the 'net and in the blogosphere while meandering. Hope you enjoy!
Tips and tricks
Ian from impactEDnurse has a great little video about keeping air bubbles out of your IV
lines.
Not Nurse Ratched has an informal tip for you (or your patients) experiencing nausea. Not sure where it came from, but would be happy to do the research. The Hotel is full of smells, particularly on evenings.
While it's not a specific trick, this PBS segment on Dr. Atul Gawande's book, The Checklist Manifesto, talks about using checklists in hospitals and health care.
Jo has a survival guide to the night shift at her blog, Head Nurse.
Check 'em out
If you work odd hours, such as evenings, nights and weekends, you need to check out Life in the Trenches: Nursing at Night and on the Weekend. This blog is a part of Dr. Patti Hamilton of Midwestern State University's RWJF funded research project about nursing at these times of day and what happens.
We've heard a lot about the Haiti earthquake's wake lately, and one thing, you don't always hear about is how to meet the psychosocial needs of patients after disaster. Somehow, I stumbled upon this interesting CEU article called Psychiatric Emergency: Caring for Patients in Crisis.
The OMG section
Rehab is predominantly a low-tech area of nursing, because patients need to get up and running with a minimal number of devices. As an escaped techie, though, I never cease to be amazed by all the technological prodecures and devices that are on the market or will be there soon.
Liver transplants that do their job, then fade away is about a transplantation procedure, used primarily in kids, featured recently in the NY Times.
Coping
Bravo Roger! I found the Well blog article over at the NY Times which discusses life for Roger Ebert since his cancer surgery. Appearance is not everything. You might just blurt stuff out, as your wife says, but sometimes they are things we just need to hear.
Scuba diving accessible to people with disabilities? Check it out here in this article. (from www.pva.org)
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