Saturday, April 09, 2005
Thought I'd better write and let anyone who bothers to read this I am still here :p
I have finished nightshift.. yaaaay! But dayshift sucks. I had 7 patients this morning, I did not stop except for a 15min lunch break. I had one woman that I seriously was thinking about killing by the end of the shift. She was an anxious lady, which I realised from the start and of course her newly done varicose vein repair decided to bleed. So she freaks out when I have to replace the dressing telling me in the middle "don't do that". So she has bled all over her compression stocking, so I tell her I will take it and rinse it out for her and that I will order her a new pair as well. She freaks out about it and tells me she will stay still in bed, because the doctor told her she "must not go without her stocking". Doesn't matter what I would tell her at this stage, she wouldn't believe me anyways, but she was not going to have nay problems if she just got up and went to the toilet and back without it, long walks, sure I would want em on her, but short walks...bleh.. she is gonna shower without them on anyways! So I go on with the 500 other things I have to do for my other 6 patients, like IV's, analgesia, showering them, discharging a few of them, generally sorting things out. While I am doing this she buzzes asking one of the other nurses about her stockings. I head back to her room from the patient I was looking after to tell that i was getting her stockings done as soon as possible, she freaks and tells me she needs to go to the toilet. I look at her stockings which I have in soaking and realise that she wont be able to wear em yet, so I take her in a pan. She then tells me she can't use the little pans and that she needs to poop. Then she rails at me for the next 10 minutes about the fact that I am not getting her stockings fixed soon enough and that the "DOCTOR" told her that she shouldn't have the stockings off when she is up. So I go get her stocking which I had soaking and put it in the ward clothes dryer. I go searching for her new stockings, I have now ordered them twice because Pharmacy was not happy with the first order, they are still not up from pharmacy, I cannot do ANY more about that. I go tell her that the stocking is on its way. She is still telling me off, I tell her it will be about 10 minutes.
She buzzes again (let me tell you, she was supposed to be going home this morning, not this afternoon) and asks the tea lady for a pan. I find that her new stockings have FINALLY come up, so i take them down and go to put the new stocking on, she asks for the old stocking because the new stockings would be "tighter". I go and get her old stocking (which i know will be just as tight because they are made not to stretch so they can achieve what they are designed for) and I put them on. She then says, "oh I know how busy you are, I am sorry to put you to the trouble..."
Lady, you are SO not sorry about anything at all or you wouldn't have fucking hassled me ALL morning about your fucking stocking when I had 6 other patients who are sicker than you. Ok ok I have vented, and it was probably partly me feeling pretty tired, but I had told her I had lots of patients and was very busy this morning, she obviously wasn't listening to the "other" patients bit.
Well.. am feelin a little tired, and I may actually be able to get some sleep so i am gonna go :p
Laters
I have finished nightshift.. yaaaay! But dayshift sucks. I had 7 patients this morning, I did not stop except for a 15min lunch break. I had one woman that I seriously was thinking about killing by the end of the shift. She was an anxious lady, which I realised from the start and of course her newly done varicose vein repair decided to bleed. So she freaks out when I have to replace the dressing telling me in the middle "don't do that". So she has bled all over her compression stocking, so I tell her I will take it and rinse it out for her and that I will order her a new pair as well. She freaks out about it and tells me she will stay still in bed, because the doctor told her she "must not go without her stocking". Doesn't matter what I would tell her at this stage, she wouldn't believe me anyways, but she was not going to have nay problems if she just got up and went to the toilet and back without it, long walks, sure I would want em on her, but short walks...bleh.. she is gonna shower without them on anyways! So I go on with the 500 other things I have to do for my other 6 patients, like IV's, analgesia, showering them, discharging a few of them, generally sorting things out. While I am doing this she buzzes asking one of the other nurses about her stockings. I head back to her room from the patient I was looking after to tell that i was getting her stockings done as soon as possible, she freaks and tells me she needs to go to the toilet. I look at her stockings which I have in soaking and realise that she wont be able to wear em yet, so I take her in a pan. She then tells me she can't use the little pans and that she needs to poop. Then she rails at me for the next 10 minutes about the fact that I am not getting her stockings fixed soon enough and that the "DOCTOR" told her that she shouldn't have the stockings off when she is up. So I go get her stocking which I had soaking and put it in the ward clothes dryer. I go searching for her new stockings, I have now ordered them twice because Pharmacy was not happy with the first order, they are still not up from pharmacy, I cannot do ANY more about that. I go tell her that the stocking is on its way. She is still telling me off, I tell her it will be about 10 minutes.
She buzzes again (let me tell you, she was supposed to be going home this morning, not this afternoon) and asks the tea lady for a pan. I find that her new stockings have FINALLY come up, so i take them down and go to put the new stocking on, she asks for the old stocking because the new stockings would be "tighter". I go and get her old stocking (which i know will be just as tight because they are made not to stretch so they can achieve what they are designed for) and I put them on. She then says, "oh I know how busy you are, I am sorry to put you to the trouble..."
Lady, you are SO not sorry about anything at all or you wouldn't have fucking hassled me ALL morning about your fucking stocking when I had 6 other patients who are sicker than you. Ok ok I have vented, and it was probably partly me feeling pretty tired, but I had told her I had lots of patients and was very busy this morning, she obviously wasn't listening to the "other" patients bit.
Well.. am feelin a little tired, and I may actually be able to get some sleep so i am gonna go :p
Laters
8:45 AM
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