fish out of water

Got pulled briefly the other night to go "help" out in peds. It was a nightmare come true, I swear! I always do everything possible to get out of going to that unit. Sick little kids and babies are definitely not my cup of tea. Anyhow, they were getting 3 admits all at once, and since we were empty, guess who had to go on over? We had to move one patient to a different room, clean that room top to bottom, and then assist with the admissions.

Not to bad, but man did we ever work our tails off. We were praying for anyone to become critical in the ER. We prayed for an overhead code blue. Anything to get us out of peds. None it happened. So we were stuck until the peds nurse was caught up.

If it were me, I would have called in their unit manager and told her to get in there and help out. At least she knows what she is doing? Understands all that stuff that goes along with peds: special IV tubing, weights, etc and so on. No matter what people say, kids are not little adults.
Anyhow, it didn't take too awfully long to help them get caught up and we got the hell out of dodge, never to return we hope for a long long time. I found something else to do to occupy my time -- got to go start a few IV's out on the floor. Now that made me feel better!

Off to work I go. Thank god we got some patients again :)