6a-6p
I'm ready to go home. It's sad. But if I weren't here, the quality of care would be even worse. So I'll suck it up. Today i gained 2 additional patients. Total patient load...5. 2 nurses for 12 patients. Again this is why I don't do med surg!!!
I've gained a older nonverbal man whose been seizing all night & a 12 year old orphan who had a block fall on her back. Whom now has a spinal injury & shes unable to walk. In addition to being an orphan, she was raped & presented with having a STD. Long pause.....
The morning starts with coding of one of the icu patients, whom dies.A young lady whom had been suffering from a pulmonary embolism and whose respiratory drive had been long gone. She basically could no longer breathe on her on and her heart was tired of trying to do all the work. Sad that we were just sharing smiles with each other less than 24 hours ago. OK absolutely not the way to start the morning. Breakfast consists of boiled eggs, bread, cheese spread & banana. Yummy!
By noon another demise:( a visitor walks up to me & tells me that she thinks the patient is dead. I go and look & the patients mouth is O. I'm hightailing it to find a doctor. Sure enough the patient was dead. She was chronically ill. The family gave such a show. I never seen grieving to this degree. Overstimulation!!! The family danced & cried & crouched over the dead body & screamed, and threw their bodies to the ground, hit their heads on the wall. Peeing on themselves. I see some Voodoo presenting itself. Quite a scene!! For all...patients & families. Just sad:(
2 deaths in less than 6 hrs. Time for a mental health day. I hope this is not what hell feels like... It's awful here... Hot humid & tons of body odor. I wiped up enough poop !!!! the past two days... I hope I've earned my stripes:) Lord God please let me into those Golden Gates.
Dinner... beef,rice, slaw tomatoes, eggplant.
My little orphan girl gets transferred to Med surg A, which is full of spinal cord injury patients. She'll get even less attention over there. At least in Med surg B, the nurses played with her, combed her hair, bought her toys and snacks. Took her outside in a wheelchair and let her sunbathe for a while.
Phone call to Brooke
UN (United Nations Bar & Grill) with crew....
Side note, I woke up this morning scratching my butt cheek for about 2 minutes, subconsciously.
only to realize I had 4 large lumps horizontally.., Mosquito bites!!! Malaria... omg!!! Race brain begins....I've been slacking on the mosquito spray
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