Lately I've been dying to move on to another part of nursing... my unit is just not cutting it anymore.  I'm getting sick of medicine patients; the needy CP ROMIs; the occasional vascular and orthopedic surgery patients we get because they convert to afib (i hatehathate dealing with those services because the interns are crap! Must be a surgery thing.  One of my patients was in CHF as per a chest xray and no one wanted to d/c the 150 ml/hr fluids!??!?! They were even fighting with cardiology wut).  I do like the occasional palliative care patients but as everyone on our unit says wtf are they doing on tele?  My main pet peeve is the 4389057234 year old demented patients with a diagnosis of "weakness". I don't think tele should be necessary unless their electrolytes are effed up or something! What are you even looking for? Half the time they just need to be fed and hydrated. DAAANG.  Due to lawsuits practitioners are WAY too careful, that's the reason healthcare costs so much! Lame.

So what's my next move?  Home care? Maybe but I can't wrap my head around the idea of even more paperwork than i already have now.  There's an opening on another unit I'm shooting for.... just to make a change.  This unit is also tele but it's mainly for post open hearts.  It's also surgery but the difference is that our cardiothoracic service rules. So let's see.  I have an interview soon, hopefully I can get it!  If not it's back to the drawing board.

Ah, more news... Matthew moved in and we are occupying the whole third floor of my parents house.  Of course we're not exactly on our own yet but it's a start to living together.  Already it's much easier!  The plus side is I get to hang out with my fam.  Hopefully if I move to day shift I can make that even more of a possibility.

Also concerning us... we set the date for our wedding and put a deposit on a place. :)  Finally it's one thing off our chests... but we've done nothing since then, and that was a month ago that we reserved the place. Woops.  Well, there are 10 months to go so I think we will make it on time.

Updates!  Not much really since last time i posted.  I follow my LJ friends list religiously, though it'd be easier if i had it in a feed so i could see it when i check my nerd-mail (a name lovingly given to Google Reader by Matthew).

Work is the same, though lately i've been feeling like it's more a drag than anything else.  Just the BS that I have to deal with that isn't even nursing, stuff that no one ever tells you about in nursing school... it's starting to weigh on me now more than ever. Is it time for a change?   Don't know.  Matthew keeps talking about moving to bay shore, hey southside hospital is right there and so is his job.  Wonder if we can make it work.  But first we have to decide whether we can afford to move out or not :o

I'm really scared to change though.  I'm not an expert, but i've gotten comfortable where i am and i feel like i might know a little bit of what i'm doing, and the thought of going from there to a completely new environment gives me indigestion.  (on a side note, never had heartburn and reflux problems until i started working as a nurse.  or maybe it's because i work the night shift and eat at all sorts of crazy hours. Could be that. )

Why change? love my coworkers, love my patients for the most part. Except the whiners. WOW YOU HAVEN'T POOPED IN TWO DAYS? I'M STILL TRYING TO HAVE MY WEEKLY BM SO SUCK IT. <--- i would never ever say this out loud to someone. Plus half the time it's some little old lady who's really worried about her poop so i just call the np and get an order for colace or MOM to make them happy :o

throwing more money into the wedding fund, we can probably make a deposit on a venue soon.  we really have to get moving on this because our plan is to get married next fall.  Hopefully we can get it together before then!

Lame: Fell asleep yesterday before i could give my dad his father's day gift.  Now i'm wide awake and he's out of the house. Come home soon so I can sleep! I have work tonight.

am in between shifts right now, so I should technically be asleep. but of course i'm not, and as always I will regret it come 5pm. But I just had to vent. STUPIDSTUPID STUPID ADMINISTRATION I HATE YOU.

( this is boring, you really should thank me for cutting it )

I'm so disgusted. Time for naps.

I went to Peru.  It was awesome.  Climbed up Macchu Picchu!  Saw my large family every day, am missing them a lot.  Hung out with my mom 24/7, and now that we're back home and working opposite schedules, am missing her a lot. lolz

I went to work, struggled a bit because of course they added new ridiculousness to their documentation.  Sometimes we don't even get inserviced before new paperwork comes out, but this time we did.  However, when the official start date came about, the new forms were nowhere to be found.  5 days later and they were still not around.  Lame.

Went ice skating.  I still suck and can't build up speed more than 5 mph.  Was fun though.

Matthew took me on a post-valentines dinner date.  It was really nice. :)

Working tonight. So... I gotta go.

Last year I had the honor of writing the first incident report of the year after a confused patient fell out of bed (she had a companion at the bedside, remember that? I DO)

This year I had the honor of writing the first employee incident report after a confused patient dug her nails into my skin and dragged.  It sounds worse than it looks, but it might leave a scar for a while.

We failed at settling the patient in bed (she was calmly sitting on the edge with her feet hanging over, but would kick and scream anytime you touched her).  She injured three out of 4 of us that went in there. XD  This lady was STRONG!

Afterwards she asked why everyone came in to beat her up.

Oh hospital, you are so funny.

Haoy New Year to all! :D