Accomplishments of the day

I forgot to mention my 6 weeker the other day was also severely dehydrated. If I took a fine point pen and drew a line, that was the size of this baby's IVs. Be impressed. :-P

Today I finally did a male cath. It was pretty easy. I was about the fabulously stick an enormous vein in his tiny little arm but my pager went off. And then another nurse tried the vein and blew it. I was a little sad. I think I could've gotten it to work (she kept saying all day how she wasn't comfortable doing IVs.)

I also did assisted the doc with a pelvic exam all by myself. I'm not sure he really knew what he was doing...

My preceptor was sick and let me run all over the place by myself.
I loved it.

The charge nurse ordered the whole ED pizza. Because we are such hard workers.
Yummy.

I anticipated the need for a pregnancy test (that the MD forgot to order with her urinalysis) and so saved my patient several extra hours waiting for her bladder to refill before she could get xray'd and moved on to the next step.

I also caught a croupy baby getting worse before he could crash on us. I was so glad. One because he didn't crash. And two because I AM FINALLY LEARNING THE GAME!!!! Yay!

I placed another IV in a 14yo. The first one infiltrated and just reinforced my love of the lateral AC vein. From now on if I see it on a patient, that is where they are getting stuck, I don't care how nice their other veins look, the lateral AC is my baby.