It's been stinking hot the past few days,
37 yesterday, and a blazing 36 degrees today...
And both Remy and I are suffering the consequences...
My fury boy has been sluggish, and refusing to eat much.
He even runs slowly now...
Still drinking though...
And I've been keeping the AC on the whole day
*ouch to our pocket when the electricity bill arrives*
Little Remy really needs a haircut...
This weekend maybe...
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Last night wasn't too bad...
It actually got pretty quiet, and I got to sleep from
0230 till 0630. Well, interrupted, of course... but it wasn't too bad at all.
But seriously, who pages someone at 0600 and asks
"This patient in *insert ward and bed* has a BP of 155 / 70
but he's asymptomatic."
"What was his BP yesterday? What is it like usually?"
"It was 159 / 80 yesterday, and he didn't get anything"
O.o *slaps forehead*
UuRrrrrR, what makes you think that I'M going to RUSH down to the ward and give him something???
And WHY, just WHY do you have to choose such an 'appropriate' hour to ask such a question?
"That's fine. Just give him his normal morning meds later, and if the home team feels that his BP is consistently high, they need to consider commencing another antihypertensive. There are no serious concerns at the moment"
"Oh, thank you".
YOU BETTER THANK ME FOR BEING IN A GOOD MOOD YESTERDAY.
Seriously, just... bring some brains to work sometimes...
Those in Italics are obviously just my thoughts... I did not say it aloud to her.
Just because I'm not high enough in the pecking order...
And I don't wanna make enemies during my night shift.
Nurses are capable of ruining a perfect night. *some*
I am not willing to risk it...
But everyone's patience has a limit...
Just you wait...
5 comments:
that soo reminds me of my mate's on-call stories! Once he got bleeped at 2am by a junior nurse who wanted to ask him how to spell a drug! He almost throttled her!
yerdeh: OMG~! I would have soooo smacked her if she bleeped me for that!
haha, ok one more story: another friend got bleeped at 5am by a locum nurse who asked him what flucloxacillin was for. He asked why she was asking, which patient was it for thinking worse case scenario was that they had given the wrong drug to the wrong patient etc.
Guess what? she had some free time so she was actually doing her assignment and one of the assignment questions was about flucloxacillin and she couldn't be bothered looking in the AMH!
Granted not all nurses are like these two, but they make for some really funny stories! well, funny in hindsight...prolly not at that point in time! :D
yerdeh: Where do you get all these stories from???
nothing beats this when I was sleeping the other night... and some stoopid incompetent nurse rang me at 0600...
"Hi, the patient in *insert ward and bed* is not breathing"
"Urr... why are you paging me? Call the code!"
"Actually, I think he's NFR"
"You THINK, or you KNOW? What does it say in his file".
**flips through pages** "He is NFR. He just came out from ICU yesterday. I think they were planning of making him palliative"
"So, is he palliative? Or for active treatment still? And does he even have a pulse? What did he present with?"
"Urr... no pulse I think".
"Never mind, I'll come. Whereabouts is he again?"
GgRrrRrr.... only to realise that he was extubated for comfort measures. Geez, thanks for the wake up call!
yerdeh: Where do you get all these stories from???
nothing beats this when I was sleeping the other night... and some stoopid incompetent nurse rang me at 0600...
"Hi, the patient in *insert ward and bed* is not breathing"
"Urr... why are you paging me? Call the code!"
"Actually, I think he's NFR"
"You THINK, or you KNOW? What does it say in his file".
**flips through pages** "He is NFR. He just came out from ICU yesterday. I think they were planning of making him palliative"
"So, is he palliative? Or for active treatment still? And does he even have a pulse? What did he present with?"
"Urr... no pulse I think".
"Never mind, I'll come. Whereabouts is he again?"
GgRrrRrr.... only to realise that he was extubated for comfort measures. Geez, thanks for the wake up call!
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