The people "beneath" a nurse in the hospital are nursing assisstants. In my particular unit, they are called "burn techs." Essentially, they assist in whatever I might need - from getting blood products, helping with dressing changes and linen changes, doing EKGs, Blood Sugars, etc, etc. They are not allowed to say "no," especially if they aren't doing anything.
There seems to be this whole attitude of burn techs thinking that they don't have to do everything/anything the nurse says because a) it won't get them fired, and b) they're super lazy and fat. It's really exhausting to have to remind the techs to do something over and over again, just to get snide and arrogant remarks. Of course I can do all these things myself, but I'm busy with other things which actually are critical in the life/death course of the patient.
Well today, I stood my ground. I made a stand. I am a change agent. Do you know what I did? I told on them.
Sounds silly, but that's actually what you're supposed to do. It probably won't do anything, but at least I did something, right?
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Major Life Lesson
Last night at work I learned a major life lesson:
If your children have have lice:
1) don't try to kill the lice with gasoline
2) don't put all three of your children in the bathtub with the gasoline
3) don't decide that it's cold in the bathroom and bring in a heater...
If you follow those rules, you won't end up in a burn unit.
If your children have have lice:
1) don't try to kill the lice with gasoline
2) don't put all three of your children in the bathtub with the gasoline
3) don't decide that it's cold in the bathroom and bring in a heater...
If you follow those rules, you won't end up in a burn unit.
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Heat
So, it's been quite awhile since Brad or I updated. Not really sure why, but it seems as though as posting my personal life online is kind of...weird. It's not like I'm going to post any juicy details or anything...whatever...I know...I'm weird.
Brad and I are doing great! Lucy, our most beautiful orange kitten, went into heat the other day. I've never had a female cat before, yet alone seen a cat in heat. Sammy and Simba (the cat we're sitting) didn't have a clue what to do. Her butt is all up in their face, she's rubbing all over everthing, and both of them are just staring at her. Gotta feel bad for her...she's not getting any!
Brad and I are doing great! Lucy, our most beautiful orange kitten, went into heat the other day. I've never had a female cat before, yet alone seen a cat in heat. Sammy and Simba (the cat we're sitting) didn't have a clue what to do. Her butt is all up in their face, she's rubbing all over everthing, and both of them are just staring at her. Gotta feel bad for her...she's not getting any!
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