The ICU...from a nurse tech's perspective.....

I have only been working about a month in the ICU as a nurse tech and in this short month: I have been stressed out of my mind, personally saved one life through my amasssing CPR skills :) and been exposed to a pleuthra of nasty things of which I will attempt to censor for the faint of heart......welcome to health care!!

Here are some of my random thoughts/ conversations I have with myself after working here: (this list is in no way complete, and I will add to it!)

- You know you work in health care when you're walking through Wal-Mart and see an enormously large person, and you start picturing them in a hospital bed, and think to yourself, "Man! I hope he never comes to my unit! " and then you rate them on your scale of how many people it would take to lift him in bed. "He's a 4-person....No, maybe a 5-er..." and you secretly hope he will be healthy for the rest of his life and never find his way to your unit.

-You know it's time to diet when someone must SEARCH for your privates........

- There is a delicate balance to the interactions between doctors and nurses...which, I haven't quite figured out yet. Grey's Anatomy has nothing on the things I've heard about that go on here. More to come.

-It's amazing how people who, though restrained, can pull things out of places that you didn't think things could go...use your imaginations folks!