This week was pretty nice. Very busy but overall nice. I had Monday off because of the Labor Day holiday which was fabulous and then I started on my Burn rotation on Tuesday. I would really like to be better at looking up patients in a more time efficient manner. I am getting to work around 6-6:30am in order to be ready for rounding by 8-8:30 and we only have like 10 patients. Granted a couple are super complicated patients but still. It seems like I miss things everyday that I should have looked up. And then due to the nature of the rotation and my other projects I end up not leaving until 5-6pm... that makes for some long days and one very sleepy Nikita. Nevertheless I am learning a lot and I assume I will get better at the whole looking up patients thing. I'm certainly going to try.
So next week is like the big scary week of September for me. I have grand rounds final practice run through Monday at noon, real grand rounds presentation Tuesday at noon, my MUE presentation Wednesday morning at 7am, a meeting with the ACPE people at my alma mater Thursday at 9am, the SO pager Friday all day, and then I have to work the weekend. FML. Actually none of it should be too bad except I'm pretty nervous about the grand rounds presentation and I don't really like working the weekends because it can either be boring or stressful or both but rarely anything in between. Anyway, I'm sure it will all be fine... as Ingrid Michaelson says, "all we can do is keep breathing". That is sort of my mantra for the year I think. All I can do is keep breathing. Sometimes when I feel myself getting super stressed out I take a couple minutes to just breathe and try not to think and sometimes that helps.
Now I think I'll go back to doing nothing. B and I would like to not waste today though so perhaps I'll think of something creative for us to do this afternoon so we don't feel so lame. :-)
Happy weekend everyone!
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