Since I'm still on orientation, my name is written on the board at the nursing station with the category I am focusing on. For example, right now I'm finishing up Labor & Circulation for sections. So, it says that on the board in order for the charge nurse to make proper patient assignments.
Yesterday I had an odd shift and didn't start until 11am. So, when I came on at 11am, I took on one of the other nurse's labor patients. The off-going nurse was giving me report on the patient and said, "Boy, I wish I could just stay with this couple... They are so nice." But, she gave the labor patient up willingly to me, so I could learn; and, she took on two post-op hysterectomy patients who were coming back from surgery (Our floor occasionally takes a few gyne patients if our census is low enough).
Not half an hour later I heard a slight commotion in the hallway but not thinking much of it, I simply closed my patient's door so she wouldn't be disturbed during labor. Then, when I went out for a break later on I found out what the commotion was: One of the nurse's post-op patients went into respiratory arrest and the nurse had to call a full code blue!
Luckily, the code ended well.... But, boy did that nurse get the short end of that stick.... I got a lovely vaginal birth during my shift with time left over to do all of my charting .... and ... she got a code blue.
She laughed at the end of the day and said, "You owe me!"
That I do.
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