Well this has been a bad week on my floor at the hospital. First off on Sunday night I swear we had a couple of looney toon patients. One liked her morphine a bit too much so we got that order cancelled and put her on another kind of pain mgt. drug. The other one was a highly confused 93 year old lady......who later became mildly combative. I decided to put oxygen on her because a lot of time when people's oxygen saturation drops below a certain point they start to become very restless and confused (before they turn blue if you will). That helped and fixed the problem then she became the sweet lil old lady she was last week. However now her oxygen has to stay on all the time or her oxygen drops and the mean-ness comes back. Obviously there is more to this story as well but I'll stop for now. Well then Yesterday morning one of my patients died at shift change......in front of me.....It was my first patient that I've lost and combined that I was there when he died. I saw him die...and eventhough he was on his way out of this world, we werent expecting him to pass so quickly.....the cancer had just eaten him up inside and there jsut wasnt much left. But I'm still upset about that. It's not something you get used to seeing and you shouldnt get used to seeing people die.
Then early this morning the computer system we use to chart on our patients went down from 1am to 5am so that made things extremely stressful........combined with two more ladies that I swear were nuttier than a fruitcake...........I'm so glad this week is over and I'm off to applebee's for happy hour!
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