January 10, 2010

Today is my LAST day of work for a little over a week!!! YAY!! Yesterday and today I have spent alot of time helping one of my nurses learn to give IV antibiotic infusions as well as blood transfusions on our unit. We get alot of infusions over the weekend since the hospital's infusion center is closed every weekend. When the patients come to our unit for their infusions there are several things we have to remember to do along with different charting. I am SO proud of the nurse I assigned to the infusion patients. She is a newer nurse, and she did a wonderful job. She takes instruction very well and is a very fast learner. Today was a little stressful for us both as we received one patient for a blood transfusion who was EXTREMELY impatient and difficult!! He was a real pain in the bootay. I helped her more with the blood transfusion to get it done and get him out of there ASAP!! He made the nurse a little nervous and anxious due to his lack of consideration for our policies and procedures and because he was SO demanding, but she did not allow it to show. She has such a positive "can-do" attitude and truly is just a breath of fresh air!! I am so proud of her. :o)

I am home now...got SO much to do!! From laundry, washing my dogs so they will smell good when they go stay with Aunt Sherry, then taking them to Aunt Sherry's, to packing and running to Wal-mart...oh, AND gotta eat dinner in there somewhere. Gonna be a looong night! Still waiting for Colin to get home from work...poor baby had to work all weekend. He found out on FRIDAY that he won a contract he was bidding on and that he wanted badly. Good news that he won the contract....but bad news being that we are leaving in the morning for New York. He has a business trip next week to New York. I am going with him, and we fly out in the morning. We're making it into a mini-vacation. It's going to be such fun!! There are a few guys from Colin's work who are also going and one of them, Tony, is bringing his girlfriend, too. Colin and Tony are good buddies. So, while the guys are in their training Tuesday-Thursday Tony's girlfriend and I are going to hangout...I haven't met her yet, but I know we'll have lots of fun. Anyways, gotta go for now....too much to do to keep chatting on here. Can't promise I'll be able to blog next week. I will TRY, but hey, I'm on VACATION. I'll have lots of pictures though!!! :o)