11 September 2007

vacation from hell

So yesterday.. I got my vacation from hell. Away from it, that is. I got floated to the unit. My future home. It was such a nice break! After my day last Friday on the floor.. I welcomed the change, even if it was to be only for 8 hours. But this mission just reaffirmed my desire to work in there.
At first, I was to have only 1 patient. Then one of the other nurses in there (the only one in the hospital who puts in PICC lines at the moment got called away to put in a PICC line early that morning). So I inherited her patients. That gave me 3 patients. Grand! I was the second nurse in there. It is a small ICU.. only 6 beds. But I have to say that they rarely ever let the floated nurse have much responsibility... the unit coordinator in there even told me that they must trust me in order to give me that responsibility. (And I have to say, for the first time since I started nursing... I felt like a real nurse.) It was just a welcome change, and I have missed that place so much since I have passed boards. I cannot wait until my time is up so that I can transfer in there.
So, yesterday ended up being a good day. I needed that vaction from hell... hell being the floor in which I work. Today, however, I go back in to be overworked and overstressed. Hopefully it ends up being a good day too. I don't know how many more bad days I can take. Seriously.

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