A real, hard-core Labor and Delivery Nurse's ultimate horror is working in any other department other than Labor and Delivery. Somehow, whether we like it or not, as an L&D Nurse, our job becomes part of us and we become part of our jobs. Our personalities are formed and developped through our jobs. Our humor is created and twisted and our cynicism is grown into healthy adulthood. So this weekend when I was assigned to float to Postpartum, I felt like I was being killed.
Nobody likes to float. Especially me. I hate working Postpartum. I hate handing out silly little pills that anyone can take over the counter. I hate stocking peripads and underwear. I hate talking about nipples and bottoms and pooping and peeing. I hate the crazy hormones and the tears. And mostly I hate sitting there wondering why everyone else is running around and I'm done everything I know to do...
So I finish off the day mentally exhausted. Wondering if I did anything right... wondering what I missed... cursing the day I became a nurse.
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