{"id":276419,"date":"2010-02-04T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28943539.post-1890568964601172913"},"modified":"2010-02-04T09:05:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:05:59","slug":"sweating-the-small-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/276419","title":{"rendered":"sweating the small stuff."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was probably my worst day in the ICU. And the worst part was that it had nothing to do with a patient being sick or me not knowing what to do, but rather–an extremely difficult (putting it mildly) patient. I cannot go into details, but let’s just say he was out of his freakin’ mind. He made me sick. I really could not muster compassion for this man. He was too manipulative and #$^%@#$^%$^&%$&#$!@#!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n

My whole day was terrible because of this patient. I honestly cried a few times out of frustration in the bathroom. I hope no one saw, but I’m sure no one would blame me. I tried to handle the situation as well as I could, but I suspect I did not. I mean, it was impossible.<\/p>\n

Also, I am beating myself up over a stupid mistake that I am afraid made me look like a goddamn idiot in front of people who I respect. The order read to give 20mEq of KCL over 1 hour times 3, but for some STUPID reason, I hung each bag over 4 hours. And his K+ was only 2.7, and he was on bumex and diamox. I just felt so dumb when it was revealed to me in front of the intensivist, my manager, med student, and 3 nurses. No one acted like it was a huge deal, but I’m sure they all thought I was retarded. I think I just did it over 4 hours because when I worked tele, everyone had peripheral IVs and you have to infuse it slowly. I know it isn’t a huge mistake, but I’m still beating myself up over it. I just feel so dumb. I don’t want other people to question me, either.<\/p>\n

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Anyone else have difficulty letting small things go<\/b>?<\/p>\n

 I’m trying not to focus on it today, but I’m still feeling pretty down about the whole day.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday was probably my worst day in the ICU. And the worst part was that it had nothing to do with a patient being sick or me not knowing what to do, but rather–an extremely difficult (putting it mildly) patient. I cannot go into details, but let’s just say he was out of his freakin’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1890,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}