#but I did get to use the new aerogen nebulizer setup which ngl is so fun

[sheathandshear]

RSV season was bad as fuck but yesterday was probably the worst I've seen our ED yet. Was promised that we don't hallway board any of our patients but apparently... now we do!!... and I was the hallway RN for the first 4 hours of shift while triage was just randomly dumping patients on me to get them out of the waiting room, ended up with this poor girl in sickle cell pain crisis sitting in a chair for hours waiting for me to put in an IV and give the pain meds that there were already orders for, and two patients that the provider discharged for me, and one patient that I never even saw, because I walked past my "asthma" BPD baby that I got zero report on from triage and was like hm ok, they're not working too hard, maybe the neb worked, WAIT WHY ARE THEY AT 85% ON ROOM AIR and they ended up on high flow and transferred to a different facility's PICU because there are no beds left at my hospital. When I left, 75% of the beds in the ED were boarders admitted and waiting for beds upstairs! It was basically an inpatient unit with some emergency critical care capacity! Aaaaaand now FEMA is about to strip away our emergency funding and overflow space because COVID is no longer a pandemic but an "end-emic" :)))))))))))))))))))

#adventures in nursing #i'm about to go on vacation and I shudder to think of what it's going to be like when I get back #and to top it off I ended the night looking like an idiot in front of a senior nurse with someone on day 1 of orientation #because I trusted a more experienced nurse about how many O2 liters a non-rebreather required #turns out I was right and they were wrong! augh! #but I did get to use the new aerogen nebulizer setup which ngl is so fun