Hello all. This week has been the beginning of my two weeks of staffing on the oncology floor (which also has some random other types of disease states as well...). I'm definitely liking being on my own a lot, because I can work at my own pace (which is still pretty slow compared to the other RDs). The part of oncology that I don't really like too much is that most of the patients will never get better, no matter what you do, which is kind of sad. But I do what I can for them. For example, a patient today who was a young guy with sickle cell (not really cancer, but still on that floor) said he had been in too much pain to reach the food that was sitting on his bedside table. I just wheeled the table right on over next to his bed. He asked if he could give me a hug because he was so thankful that I did that for him. (I thought a handshake might be more appropriate.) Just little things make people's day.
Also, I get to shadow at the NICU tomorrow morning! The bad part is, one of the nurses up there just got diagnosed with swine flu... Frequent hand washing is in order.
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