Today (I didn't get off until 10, so I'm writing this "tomorrow", but whatever - my blog, my rules) was much better. Chaotic, but fun.
The most work-intensive thing I did was to help hold down a crying baby as he was stuck with a needle six times in an eventually successful attempt to put in an IV. It's actually pretty funny how easily pacified he was by, well... a pacifier. Screaming bloody murder until some sugar-water on a pacifier is put in his mouth, then it didn't matter that we were fishing around his pudgy arm with a needle for another half-hour. I never thought I could be so happy to see blood coming out of a baby. #contextiseverything
The most fun I had today was talking to the little cousin of a patient, who kept sneaking out of their room to creep on the other sick kids while wearing this huge jacket his uncle gave him. He could barely walk with the jacket coming down past his knees, but he still somehow managed to peek on tip-toes at the sick girl next-door.
TIL: ...how to do oral and nasal swabs for sputum culture lab tests. Uh... Stick the stick in the patient's mouth or nose. Tada! Not as easy when they're crying and biting down, but simple enough in theory.
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