Work: Not a single page from the ER

This never happens, not even on a good day. I actually had a quiet day at work and had time to learn and teach a thing or two with my patients.

RT's carry a small workload when covering the ER and when they don't page, they tend to to have ample time to be productive or find some way to pass the time.

For some it is hanging out at a nursing station chatting away, for others it is reading the magazines in the respiratory dept, but for me it is cracking out my big nursing books and studying away.

Historically, most therapists tend to shy away from taking the ER. You just never know what will come in the door. I for some reason have gravitated to this and I think I like the unpredictability of not knowing when or if you will get paged or how great or crappy your night will be.

For the most part, I tend to carry a poor record when it comes to how many of the patients I see in the ER end up getting admitted. At least in the eyes of my coworkers, I tend to add more to the workload after I hand the pager over to the next shift. That's usually my luck.

That being said, it was an easy going day and even better when I got home. I had the rest of the afternoon/evening to spend with my family.

I just love my job. All of them that is.