Tiredness...

I think I have TB...

Or maybe lymphoma.

Then again maybe it's the psychomotor retardation of depression.

Either way I'm feeling really really tired for no particular reason this week. I even went to bed early last night and still struggled to get up today.

Last year (as a student) I would just take the day off if I felt mildly unwell. But now I kinda feel some bizarre sense of responsibility and so drag myself out of bed and force myself to get thru the day.

Using Coca-Cola and other legal stimulants, I managed to go thru the motions and even managed to suck up to the boss (good to keep the consultants happy).

But then as I was about to leave the evil nurses poured forth their usual load of rubbish and soured the end of a long day.

We had charted a new anti-psychotic for a rather aggressive patient who had been waiting 2 days for it to be approved by the government. Now that we had finally gotten it ready we charted it in the med chart to be given and as I was preparring to leave the nurses said they didn't 'want' to give it to the patient because they would need to monitor his vitals hourly for 6 hours.

Oh no! Heaven forbid they should have to actually get off their bums and DO some work. I'm SO sorry for actually assuming they had a job to do (for which they get paid more than me!).

They cited some concern about safety (um hello... that's why we employ a 100kg bikie to protect them!) and refused outright to give it. I so wanted to pull rank on them... but have heard horror stories of interns in Wagga who have tried this and ended up paying for it with a lifetime of Panadol-recharting-pages.

I reluctantly recharted it for the next day and then had to exaplin to my boss WHY we weren't able to give the patient his anti-psychotics today.

Needless to say I wasn't happy, the boss wasn't happy and the patient called us a bunch of unrepeatables.

Thankyou nurses ... for being so useful!

Not looking forward to the weekend. I have to work Friday evening then Sunday evening then I work 3 days next week before starting a week of night shift (11pm-8am)... kinda starting to wish I'd got a job at McDonald's flipping burgers...

Oh well!