Intensive care was extremely busy today. It was the usual story....too many critically ill patients and just enough staff to cope with them!By mid afternoon the constant pressure got to us all... and we, the nurses indulged in a bout of stupid behaviour (joking around with a somewhat perplexed and overly serious radiographer) and a short burst of hysterical giggling at absolutely nothing!
In eleven and a half hours I have looked after one high dependency patient and two intensive care patients.
Give me humping a ton of stones around in my field anytime!
Thank you for doing the job you do. It's got the be the kind of job where you need to have the release of humor.
ReplyDeleteOne of my race tracker friends went into ICU yesterday. Brain aneurysm, operated on, guarded condition. She's in her late forties and has the most joyous laugh in the world. I hope her nurses laugh and smile around her.
Having been in ICU, and having friends who work in ICU, having a nurse with a sense of humor is a price well above pearls. Especially when a certain patient, who shall remain nameless, removes all these funny wires on her arm, not realizing that she has just panicked the staff nearby as all the monitoring equipment shows she's in arrest.
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She wasn't. {Blush}
Glad to have you doing that job, but you could always have a back up career of mason, I suppose. :)
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My hat is off to you for choosing the career you did. Have only been in hospital twice in my life and I can honestly say I wish the nurses had a sense of humor. Keep on laughing and giggling! :) It is appreciated.
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