I don't know why I consent to this, but somehow I always end up covering these partial shifts while someone runs to a kiddo's soccer game or picks up their kids from dance class. Everytime I do it, I curse myself for ripping myself off a day off. And everytime I swear I'll never do it again. Yet, here again, I find myself picking up part of a shift.
Even the partial shift today was a reason to come home and have a stiff drink. My patients were fine. But everyone else's were certifiably crazy! It began as soon as I sat down for report. A blood-curdling scream comes from the end of the hall, followed by a string of coarse language and curse words. I jump up, asking WTF?! Nobody else moves. Turns out this Freak-Fest down the hallway has been carrying on all day like this, despite having an epidural so intense that she cannot move. This time it was because the Nurse was removing a piece of tape from her arm. Glad I wasn't around for that delivery!
Next came a sweet looking, but very anxious young couple who's complaint was that the husband had fallen on the wife and they just wanted to make sure the baby was ok. I take them to a room and get her connected to the monitor. So tell me what happened. "Well my husband was standing on a chair, hanging some curtains and I saw he was going to fall so I crouched down on the floor to catch his head. When I caught his head my hand smashed against the edge of the door." So where was your tummy hit? "Oh, my tummy wasn't hit." Huh?!
Even the partial shift today was a reason to come home and have a stiff drink. My patients were fine. But everyone else's were certifiably crazy! It began as soon as I sat down for report. A blood-curdling scream comes from the end of the hall, followed by a string of coarse language and curse words. I jump up, asking WTF?! Nobody else moves. Turns out this Freak-Fest down the hallway has been carrying on all day like this, despite having an epidural so intense that she cannot move. This time it was because the Nurse was removing a piece of tape from her arm. Glad I wasn't around for that delivery!
Next came a sweet looking, but very anxious young couple who's complaint was that the husband had fallen on the wife and they just wanted to make sure the baby was ok. I take them to a room and get her connected to the monitor. So tell me what happened. "Well my husband was standing on a chair, hanging some curtains and I saw he was going to fall so I crouched down on the floor to catch his head. When I caught his head my hand smashed against the edge of the door." So where was your tummy hit? "Oh, my tummy wasn't hit." Huh?!
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