In the Dark.....

Name who sings a song by that title, and get a prize!!!! Or at least, get to say that you know it. (No Google Cheating)

I have one more week of day shift extravaganza, and then next Wednesday, I'm gonna hear the sweet sound...coming down...on the Night Shift! That means I have to somehow find a way to make myself sleep during the day....Like staying up till 8:30 AM won't do that.

So today's purchases included....black out drapes, new sheets, and Advil PM (or whatever time you need to sleep).

I have physically adjusted to the LONG shifts, and I no longer feel like I have been mugged at the end of the day. However, I am so dog tired, that I get home, eat, and am out like a light by 9:30-ish. That is after not actually leaving the hospital till after 8 pm, and a half hour commute.

Started my first IV on a little boy (first try!!), tried to assist with a catheter insertion on a 3 year old little girl who was having none of it. After 1.5 hours of screaming, wiggling, and a not too unimpressive Linda Blair-type levitation, she peed into a sterile container in 3 seconds flat.

I have learned so much in the 3 shifts I have worked, and I was fortunate to have a great teacher. This week, I spend one more day in acute, one day on the floor, and one day doing charge with my clinical coach. Then it is over to nights.

I am loving what I do. Really. And there really is no getting out of doing unpleasant tasks like you can as a secretary. The patients rely on you for care, and you have to be ready to give it. You can't put them off, or in a drawer. There is no out of sight, out of mind, because they are in your mind even on your days off.

I have developed a terrible scrub addiction. Husbeast think since I only work 3 days a week, I need only 3 sets of scrubs. Um, like I am going to wear the same outfits every week? Has he not lived with me long enough to know me better than that? Still, I don't think 8 sets is outrageous.

I had a very nice Mother's Day. I had thought I was going to have to work, but it turned out that I was not scheduled after all. So, I got breakfast in bed, and taken to lunch. I got a pda as a gift so that I won't have to lug around books in my bag, and software to put in it. (drug book, rnotes, labs & diagnostics)

Went to see my grandmother. Got a guilt trip from my own mother. Hope everyone else had a nice mother's day as well.

W. :)