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I couldn't keep up today. First thing in the morning was getting patient report. Report took longer than usual ... too long I'd say .. just from that I had the idea that the day was going to suck. A patient was there for GI Bleeding and severe anemia. He had just received 3 units of blood. He was NPO and scheduled to go down for a procedure. He also had some tests pending. Vital Signs needed to be taken. Had to be alert for Dr's call. The second patient was asking for Morphine every two hours. He was also diabetic and needed acuchecks. The third patient was there for back pain. The fourth patient was there for Pneumonia and CHF and had more medications than all the patients in the hospital put together. I mean, it was so crazy. She was old and had all kinds of meds. The fifth patient was BIPOLAR. She came from the ICU. Took her telemetry off and wouldn't let anyone approach her to put it back on. She pulled out her IV. Refused some meds., Pissed in her bed. Had to be changed thrice. Kept yelling and complaining. Hit the call button every 5 minutes ... demanded to see the nurse. Demanded to see the Dr. oh lord. After report I went to give everybody a quick look. Then I looked at the MARS, Charts, and gave the meds. The CNA was nowhere to be seen so I had to get the vital signs myself. I also had to get the acu checks. After that I ran to do the assessments. The patiend with pain kept asking for medication. After documenting such thing I gave an IVP push and charted it. After that I ran to do assessments. By the time I was done it was already time to see the charts again and do the acu checks. Damn. After the acuchecks there were new orders. Right while giving the medications ... the patient with GI bleeding got taken to the OR and Tammy was nowhere to be seen. After he left, the other one asked for more pain med. Then he requested a bath ... so I had to unhook him from the IV pump and cover the IV site and get him some towels, wash cloths, a gown, and soap. The wife requested the bed linens to be changed .. I asked Jessica to do it. The other patient needed to have a piggy back med. administered right when Ms. Busch came up to the floor. The line was filled with more air bubbles than all the air available in the planet. Getting it all out was such a waste of prescious time. By the time I left the room ... a patient had been taken down to x-ray. On top of that I lost my nursing notes and had to go around the hospital looking everywhere. It was such a hassle. I gave one last medication and was ready to collapse on the floor dead! That's why I'm glad it's Friday. I have never in my life felt so happy about it being Friday. This was such a long day and the longest week of my life. Working on that presentation for theory and studying for the exam was a night mare. It was so bad, I even had a fight with Tim over the presentation. On Friday night he asked me to come to Woodlands on Saturday to go see his grandmother. That same day Cindy scheduled a study group thing from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. I didn't know that Tim's parents were going to see the grandmother as well. We were depending on their schedule and with Woodlands being an hour away, it just became impossible for me to be able to go. It made Tim mad and he yelled at me how dissapointed he was and how mad he was about us working on the presentation "too fucking long." And he told me that he no longer cared and I should go have fun with my friends because I never had time for anything anymore and hung up on me. I called him back crying and he kept bitching at me even more. I went to the study group very upset. That's why I'm glad that the freakin' thing is finally over. Last night my mother kept demanding for me to give her a back massage right when I was typing my homework on the computer. It was 10:30pm and I still hadn't even had a bath yet. That's why I'm at the library today and I am very temped to take the day off. I'm going home now. Good bye.
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