Just Another Manic Monday

I hope you are taking notes fir the book you should write whenever you decide to retire and slow down a bit!Nice to read about an awful day with the nurse still wanting to do it all over again! You win a Prize in my book!

Even after all the stress...would you go back and not become a nurse??

Heck no.........I love being a nurse, even though I've questioned my sanity more than once during the course of my career. I don't know what else I could do that would keep a roof over my family's heads AND challenge me every single day, forcing me to step outside my comfort zone over and over and continue to grow even when I don't want to!

"...I wanted to wrap my face around the biggest, gooeyest doughnut I could find, then crawl into my La-Z-Boy and take a nice long nap with my dog." Do that. you deserve it!!!

"...I wanted to wrap my face around the biggest, gooeyest doughnut I could find, then crawl into my La-Z-Boy and take a nice long nap with my dog." Exactly how I felt this morning after two of the worst back to back 12 hour hell-shifts as primary triage nurse in the ER. Lucky for me, one of the morning docs happened to bring in chocolate-chocolate chip muffins the size of my head. I'm finally at home and my puppy is at my feet:-) Thank goodness for my three days off this week!

Amazingly the worst days do come to an end!! "Tomorrow is another day" We all need to hang together and draw strength from each other, good nurses are amazing!!

Thank you for sharing your story. It was an interesting and easy to read. Boy, what a day you had!!! You did really good (in fact, excellent). I don't think I would made as half as good as you did. I would have hit to the ground with first two events... I'm not good at dealing with to many stressful events. I would need a closet room like in "scrubs." And time to re-energize.

I haven't been on this forum as much as I used to, but reading your post reminded me of how much I've loved your posts. How lucky your patients, coworkers and families are to have you there.

Good for you! Witnessed a fatality accident on the way to work one day a few years back, then the first patient I walked in on was dead, (OT got to him before he'd had PT....you know what I mean?). My son called asking my advice on a suicidal patient (while he was waiting for the EMT's), my dad got admitted for congestive heart failure, my husband got laid off from his job, and my psychologist's daughter was the cause of the fatality accident, so I couldn't really talk to anyone that day.....some days you just never forget...thank goodness for long term care though, because it brings as much joy and humor as it does misery.