Things I've Learned This Year

Great subject! "What I Learned This Year" !! I try to do that, too-- and I've found that it takes a conscious effort to do it, and the more years you have under your belt, the harder it is to do, because there's an awful lot of "autopilot" that's very easy to fall back on.Your comment about the well developed sense of the absurd?? Thank you! I just can't say how many times people look askance at me for laughing at one of those moments! It's like they think you have a screw loose or don't care. I now work in home health and oh Lordy- if this were a reality show it would trump all others hands down! The other day the RT was over to check a ventilator that was malfunctioning by alarming at short intervals- and after making several calls was unable to get the alarming to stop, so she loaded the thing on a dolly and going clunk-clunk-clunk down the front steps with it alarming away just as an ice-cream truck rolled by playing it's cornball musical jingle The duet of the two .sounds was all the more hilarious to me because of their polar opposite meanings- but I'm pretty sure nobody else would even have noticed it- let alone laughed- so it's good to know I'm not alone!

Absolutely right on!

Best thing I've read all year!

Ooooo, you're not a very compassionate nurse, you probably eat your young and lateral hostility blah, blah, blah.I loved it. I am really looking forward to a conversation I have to have with a nurse who I am pretty sure is one of those who thinks she gets it but really doesn't.The other thing I've learned this year is that when you implement an improvement and you evaluate where you need to change it, if you don't change the process you have just wasted everyone's time.

Good job Ruby, loved it as always!

Excellent!

Oh Ruby..it must be great to be you.bowingpur

oh ruby . . . i'm dealing with this person right now. (rolling my eyes - can't find the smilies) "the third kind are those who don’t get it but think they do. just like you cannot teach anyone who already thinks they know everything, you cannot hope that those who don’t get it but think that they do will ever get it. they won’t. instead, they’ll keep trying to argue that you are wrong, and that they get it and you don’t. that can be frustrating and infuriating."

Sooo true!!! I love working with the gum chewing, hair flipping, and lets not forget the cell phone wielding RNs who believe the breakroom is their own personal therapy couch who continously bragg about the "fact" that they are going to be an NP so they don't have to deal with "these types" of patients anymore. I want to tell them, "You're not dealing with any patients, you are on your phone in the breakroom!!".And the "non-tube drainers" thing is also so true:Me to the LPN/CNA/other RN: Why did you mark down 0 for their urine output?LPN/CNA/other RN: Because they said they didn't get up to pee.Me: They have a Foley.LPN/CNA/ other RN: Oh.Priceless.

Crazy but true!..LOL....a pleasure to read! If we cannot laugh we will surely be miserable. "Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Wow..best thing I've read all year.. and I've read a lot... what got me was the Foley Catheter part... When I read it I instantaneously remembered my Clinical Instructor Mouthing Off and Scaring me to death when I had to explain to her why my patient's urine output for the day was 0.. Big NO NO, even if they don't have a FC. LOL.

After being fired unfairly with no writeups and 7 yrs of faithful dedicated service I learned you should never trust anyonethat says they are behind you all the way and will have you back and pretends to be your friend. I should sue for wrongful termination but do not have the energy right now. I have 3 more months to decide.