Babies galore

NICU nurse for 3 years. New to travel nursing.

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When I was training to be a battered women’s advocate, my supervisor said something that really blew my mind:

“You can always assume one thing about your clients; and that is that they are doing their best. Always assume everyone is doing their best. And if they’re having a day where their best just isn’t that great, or their best doesn’t look like your best, you have to be okay with that.”

Any now whenever anyone in my life, either a friend or a client, frustrates me, disappoints me, or pisses me off, I just tell myself They are doing their best. Their best isn’t that great today, but I have days where my best isn’t that great either. 

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My life mantra

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just finished my first travel assignment

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Me @ senior management with their 30 min long morning huddle nonsense

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The look in a mother’s eyes.

As she asks

What the treatment is to grow back her daughter’s dead brain tissue

And she is told there isn’t one.

The bravado laced tears. Professional, calm front. And the screaming of her silent gaze, carrying rage confusion despair why why why me us her

Haunts me

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The black cloud life

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Management walking in on night shift shenanigans

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Staff nurses when you volunteer to return to the floor you floated to yesterday

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night shift orientation

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Preparing for a shitwreck admission

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Me: firm pressure, not stroking is the best way to comfort your daughter

Parents: why can’t we poke and pet her?

Me:

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#mood

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Coming in at 0700 and meeting night shift

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If this ain’t my grumpy 0645 ass I swear

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Trying to bottle feed a preemie

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I want this disclosure on my hospital badge.

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Yes!!!!

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Does anyone else have that one friend whose sleep schedule is like an ever-evolving mystery? One day they’ll appear to be asleep for the entire 16 hours that you’re awake, but the next three they won’t appear to actually sleep at all. Sometimes they appear to be on Australian time, other times their schedule has adjusted to somewhere in the middle of the Pacific ocean. (I call this Cthulhu time.) You go a week without seeing them and you have no idea if they’re just really busy, dead, or if their sleep has simply synced up to the exact hours you’re awake and online. The only indication that they’re still in this mortal coil is vague posts about grocery shopping that pop up on their blogs at 4:12AM. 

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When visitors cough

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Discharging stupid people