Had my first student in tow from this new class last night. We ran our butts off but it was a good night. I hope. She did well. We had treatments on the floor plus assess/treat and we were NICU's backup. Holy cow! The first four hours went by like lightening because we were so busy.
We had just started a few of the tx's when a code was called. You know, you know you're not new anymore when a code makes you cringe instead of get excited. But it was a great opportunity for the couple of students. They got to see their first code, they got to bag, they got to see a vent being set up and the pt transferred into a unit...so it's all good.
Then we went back to tx's. Had a really nasty (hateful) man. Again, a good opportunity. Her eyes got pretty big. When we left the room I said "Look, here's my philosophy on that. Don't let anyone make you be someone you're not just because they're a jerk." I don't. Most of the time. I blow off steam here and I do make fun of jerks but overall I'm still nice to them and other hateful people because I won't let them make me have a bad day or be an unhappy person. That's giving too much of yourself away.
The end of the story is that I continued to be nice to him throughout the night, extra nice even, and by the end of the night, on the last treatment, he held my hand and thanked me for everything I'd done for him last night. Not all of them do that but it's worth it to get through to the one guy who let the pain and fear and hassle of being in the hospital make him be someone he obviously wasn't normally.
It's okay to take a little shit once in a while. You just don't let it change who you are or how much you love the job.
After we got the tx's cleaned up, we went down and did some tx's in the NICU to help Renae and Mike get caught up. They were in the weeds but we weren't complaining to go help. It's always exciting for students to get to go down there so early. Normally they don't get even a peek until the third semester. She got to wander amongst the little littles and help me do tx's on her 6th(?) clinical day. Woohoo!
Oh, and a funny for Sooner Fan. I cursed at one point about...who knows. Yeah, I know. I'm workin' on it. Anyway, I immediately apologized and said I hoped I didn't offend her. She said "Oh God, no. I don't care at all." I said "Good, because if you go tattle to SoonerFan all he's going to do is roll his eyes and shake his head as soon as he hears my name and say "That's just Glenna."" :-)
Love me as I am or get the hell out of my face. That's my other philosophy.
Had my first student in tow from this new class last night. We ran our butts off but it was a good night. I hope. She did well. We had treatments on the floor plus assess/treat and we were NICU's backup. Holy cow! The first four hours went by like lightening because we were so busy.
We had just started a few of the tx's when a code was called. You know, you know you're not new anymore when a code makes you cringe instead of get excited. But it was a great opportunity for the couple of students. They got to see their first code, they got to bag, they got to see a vent being set up and the pt transferred into a unit...so it's all good.
Then we went back to tx's. Had a really nasty (hateful) man. Again, a good opportunity. Her eyes got pretty big. When we left the room I said "Look, here's my philosophy on that. Don't let anyone make you be someone you're not just because they're a jerk." I don't. Most of the time. I blow off steam here and I do make fun of jerks but overall I'm still nice to them and other hateful people because I won't let them make me have a bad day or be an unhappy person. That's giving too much of yourself away.
The end of the story is that I continued to be nice to him throughout the night, extra nice even, and by the end of the night, on the last treatment, he held my hand and thanked me for everything I'd done for him last night. Not all of them do that but it's worth it to get through to the one guy who let the pain and fear and hassle of being in the hospital make him be someone he obviously wasn't normally.
It's okay to take a little shit once in a while. You just don't let it change who you are or how much you love the job.
After we got the tx's cleaned up, we went down and did some tx's in the NICU to help Renae and Mike get caught up. They were in the weeds but we weren't complaining to go help. It's always exciting for students to get to go down there so early. Normally they don't get even a peek until the third semester. She got to wander amongst the little littles and help me do tx's on her 6th(?) clinical day. Woohoo!
Oh, and a funny for Sooner Fan. I cursed at one point about...who knows. Yeah, I know. I'm workin' on it. Anyway, I immediately apologized and said I hoped I didn't offend her. She said "Oh God, no. I don't care at all." I said "Good, because if you go tattle to SoonerFan all he's going to do is roll his eyes and shake his head as soon as he hears my name and say "That's just Glenna."" :-)
Love me as I am or get the hell out of my face. That's my other philosophy.