I should be sleeping... it's 10:57pm and I need to get up early tomorrow to go to the hospital. I'm filled with both excitement and apprehension. Today wasn't one of my best days... of course I'm only 6 days in! I ended my day with self doubt... not a good place to be. So as I've been laying here in bed... trying to sleep... I've been doing a bit of strategizing... easier said than done - but we will see tomorrow.
There were a couple of things though that were rather amusing and that is what I would like to highlight now. I ended up this afternoon on my own since the resident I've been working with wasn't there. When we were first told that we should go "hangout" on our floors this afternoon, the other introvert intern and I knew it would take everything we had... we even had a nice chuckle about it over text messages!
So I took my introvert butt over to the hospital and started on the 1st floor - tough group to crack - ICU... got a lead on a patient and spoke briefly to the family. Then headed up to the 10th floor and got another lead... again spoke briefly to the family... not too bad but not quite as exciting a day as the other interns were having.
When I get back to chart, I spent all sorts of time filling out the form and answering all the questions to add the document to the patient's chart... only to add it to the wrong patient!!! Really?!?! I told my boss about it and he told me he gives Gold Stars for messing up... he would rather have us show up and screw up than not show up at all. Amen to that - and here is to a better day tomorrow.
There were a couple of things though that were rather amusing and that is what I would like to highlight now. I ended up this afternoon on my own since the resident I've been working with wasn't there. When we were first told that we should go "hangout" on our floors this afternoon, the other introvert intern and I knew it would take everything we had... we even had a nice chuckle about it over text messages!
So I took my introvert butt over to the hospital and started on the 1st floor - tough group to crack - ICU... got a lead on a patient and spoke briefly to the family. Then headed up to the 10th floor and got another lead... again spoke briefly to the family... not too bad but not quite as exciting a day as the other interns were having.
When I get back to chart, I spent all sorts of time filling out the form and answering all the questions to add the document to the patient's chart... only to add it to the wrong patient!!! Really?!?! I told my boss about it and he told me he gives Gold Stars for messing up... he would rather have us show up and screw up than not show up at all. Amen to that - and here is to a better day tomorrow.
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Gold star, indeed!!!
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