No, not bored. Tho I should say that after 25 years in Nursing, all in critical care areas of some sort, I've learned it's rather a bad idea to utter the word "bored" in connection with any context that it might apply to me. It seems to go like this:
(Emergency Department RN) I'm bored... WHAM 15 ambulances arrive all bearing multiple victims of a several hundred vehicle high-speed collision on the local major Inter-state highway
(Neonatal ICU RN) I'm bored... WHAM six laboring mothers in the L&D, three of whom are premature, all deliver simultaniously with twins (well, two of them are triplets) and of which only one was previously suspected of having a multiple fetus gestation (that one is, of course, the diabetic with hypertension who is on mega-Magnesium drip for pre-eclampsia...), all requiring admission to the NICU. While the admission crew is dispatched to L&D to assist, three other infants choose this time to the joys of respiratory and cardiac arrest
(Surgical Theatre RN) I'm bored... WHAM those multi-trauma victims mentioned above in the ED? Seventy-five percent of them require emergent surgery for trauma related injuries, of which 75%, 36% are emergency craniotomies, 13% are simultanious vascular repairs for major vessels injured by fractured long bones and exploratory laparotomies for ruptured spleens, torn pancreas', ruptured livers, and assorted other internal injuries. Not to mention the ruptured appendix. Oh, and two of those newborn infants in the L&D? One has a diaphragmatic hernia and another a gastroschesis.
We shall leave it as an exercise for the student to look up the defnitions of some of those procedures and conditions. It should be obvious that one will quickly learn that uttering the phrase "I'm b...d" at Hospital is akin to someone from Theatre uttering the name of That Scottish Play on stage.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2006-06-13 12:07 pm (UTC)(Emergency Department RN)
I'm bored...
WHAM 15 ambulances arrive all bearing multiple victims of a several hundred vehicle high-speed collision on the local major Inter-state highway
(Neonatal ICU RN)
I'm bored...
WHAM six laboring mothers in the L&D, three of whom are premature, all deliver simultaniously with twins (well, two of them are triplets) and of which only one was previously suspected of having a multiple fetus gestation (that one is, of course, the diabetic with hypertension who is on mega-Magnesium drip for pre-eclampsia...), all requiring admission to the NICU. While the admission crew is dispatched to L&D to assist, three other infants choose this time to the joys of respiratory and cardiac arrest
(Surgical Theatre RN)
I'm bored...
WHAM those multi-trauma victims mentioned above in the ED? Seventy-five percent of them require emergent surgery for trauma related injuries, of which 75%, 36% are emergency craniotomies, 13% are simultanious vascular repairs for major vessels injured by fractured long bones and exploratory laparotomies for ruptured spleens, torn pancreas', ruptured livers, and assorted other internal injuries. Not to mention the ruptured appendix. Oh, and two of those newborn infants in the L&D? One has a diaphragmatic hernia and another a gastroschesis.
We shall leave it as an exercise for the student to look up the defnitions of some of those procedures and conditions. It should be obvious that one will quickly learn that uttering the phrase "I'm b...d" at Hospital is akin to someone from Theatre uttering the name of That Scottish Play on stage.