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I’d like to think that I am still culturally relevant, but for the life of me I still don’t “get it”. I joined up because some of the other nurse bloggers out there use it extensively and there’s no harm in trying, right?

See, while I understand updating friends on all aspects of one’s live in realtime, I think I may be too lazy to successfully twit. Or tweet. Or whatever the verb is. Frankly, I think it would be easier to just use the GPS built into my phone to show friends exactly where I am in realtime. That’s so less creepy, right?

First, a disclaimer: I’m not territorial to the point where every little thing turns into a bitter rivalry between various hospital departments. I understand and appreciate the need for those who go into areas like med/surg or LTC while simultaneously acknowledging there’s no way in hell you’d ever get me to work there.

Now that I said that, I feel I need to talk about *some* of the med/surg nurses I’ve had to communicate with as a monitor tech.

During his weekend interview with Rev. Rick Warren, Sen. John McCain said that if he were president he would have never nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter or John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/08/18/just_asking.html

That just about says it all right there.
(Read the link for some lovely irony to boot)

One of the most frequent comments I receive, both online and in real life from my instructors, peers, and other acquaintances, is “Why didn’t you go to medical school?”

It’s a hard one to answer, for sure. For starters, the question implies that my current choices are somehow inferior and that I’m limiting my potential. I won’t get into this aspect as it’s hashed out daily in all the nurse v. doctor threads at allnurses.com, studentdoctor.net, and elsewhere.

It’s Monday morning and I’m back to work. From now until the break at the end of the semester I am working every weekend. Fun. I’m actually looking forward to it for some reason– I’ve become quite bored this summer on my days off and while I will likely regret saying this, I love being occupied with work and school. At least this semester my clinicals are in the ER and the ICU instead of med/surg.

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Anyways, our hospital has been on penny-pinching mode recently concurrent with the expansion under construction, so last night they pulled a fast one on some unsuspecting patients by moving three of them to the ICU in order to shut one of the telemetry units down to save on staffing. Unfortunately, the powers that be didn’t think their cunning plan all the way through. Our ICU became short of beds with all these downgrades taking up valuable real estate, so shortly afterwards the previously closed unit had to reopen its doors in order to take ER admits and yes… recieve the three telemetry patients back from the ICU. Aside from how rushed the staff must have been, I can’t help but to feel for the poor patients who were transferred to and fro like a hot potato all night just to save the hospital a buck. Such boneheaded moves surely can’t reflect well on the press-ganey our hospital supposedly values so much.