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Posted on July 18, 2011 by claytonhill
That’s the take home visual for the weekend … Here’s the scene: 3 nurses trying to catheterize a centurion female (100+ years old!) patient for a urine sample. One might assume, due to her age she would have decreased mobility and flexibility! Wrong!! In the midst of this sterile procedure, Great Grandma yells out – …
Category: non-glass ... ER nurse Tags: crane kick, ER nurse stories, karate kid, weekend wrap up
Posted on July 11, 2011 by claytonhill
Week-end wrap-up: Some light moments scattered within are what got me through this weekend … While pretty painful during the process – now that I’ve survived it, we had some comical scenes. Lots of unnecessary drama (WHAT IS IT with 20-somethings, anyway???) … And while I can’t get as deep into detail as I’d love …
Category: non-glass ... ER nurse Tags: charge nurse duties, ER nurse stories, veteran nurse
Posted on July 4, 2011 by claytonhill
I received a major sublimatable shipment on Friday … even my daughter was saying I’d outgrown the studio … But, in the meantime, I did a little dye-sub before going to work this weekend … I now have a new flag welcoming [me] … And, we put my pretty flowers (MINUS mulch) to good use …
Posted on June 27, 2011 by claytonhill
There are three weekends that I really don’t like working … Balloon Fest, Easy Rider and Melon Fest (and for fun – many years Easy Rider and Melon Fest are on the SAME weekend!) … Too many people crammed together in a small town, lots of alcohol flowing freely on a hot summer night … …
Category: non-glass ... ER nurse Tags: balloon fest, ER nurse stories, Yorkies
Posted on June 20, 2011 by claytonhill
It was a busy weekend. This weekend I refused to get sucked into anyone’s Jerry-Springer-drama (be it the twenty-something’s ‘crisis’ [can you say ‘vomited for 2 whole hours’?] or a co-worker’s overload tantrum) … Did that make me come off as uncaring? Maybe. But here’s what I saw: A heart rate climb to 195+ beats …
Category: non-glass ... ER nurse Tags: ABCs of life, ER nurse stories, weekend wrap up
Posted on June 13, 2011 by claytonhill
OH MY GOSH … What a weekend! Pneumonia, DKA, hyperemesis gravidarum, S/P Cardiac Arrest (talking and smiling, no less), overdoses, alcohol poisonings, anoxic brain injury, R/O peritonitis, COPD exacerbation, GI bleed … and that’s just Sunday night! Every patient I touched was sick (admitted or transferred). This is my little country ER – not some …
Category: non-glass ... ER nurse Tags: ER nurse stories, weekend wrap up
Posted on June 3, 2011 by claytonhill
I got a few things done in the studio this week … not as much as I’d like. My dichro badge reels are running in the kiln as I type. Got some 45+ bottles de-labeled and sanitized … I received a new shipment from one of my glass stores – I have a new mobile …
Posted on May 23, 2011 by claytonhill
That was me this weekend … I need to apologize (again) to my co-workers. A week of too little sleep had me too short-tempered to be around. The bad news … I don’t see any additional sleep coming this week – as we are still on pup-watch with Sienna, supplemental feeding Mattie’s pups and keeping …
Category: fused glass, non-glass ... dogs, non-glass ... ER nurse Tags: crabby, ER nurse stories, fused glass, Neapolitan Mastiff
Posted on May 16, 2011 by claytonhill
A strange weekend … Volume wasn’t out of control, but the cases were complex, along with some strange non-emergency complaints (“Can’t sleep” … does that qualify for an ER visit? Then I should live in the ER!), and the ever-present flu. Also had some crummy diagnoses made in the ED this weekend: I hate being …
Posted on May 9, 2011 by claytonhill
Brutal weekend … high census, high acuity, lots of seniors [and their mandatory assessments], as well as kids and adults – and news flash: flu season has struck AGAIN!! It’s a personal thing I know, but … I will never understand people that prefer to have diarrhea in a public place (the ER), in front …
Category: fused glass, non-glass ... ER nurse, non-glass ... life Tags: ER nurse stories, fused glass, mothers day, soy candles
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