Bagels and the power of the Touch....

March 16th~ Today was a bagel day for the wonderful ladies at work...we work so hard to care for our patients that sometimes I like to bring in the goodie to bring cheer to their day. I am also going to include that I took five minutes out my absolute chaotic day (it was crazy busy at work) and gave my patients that little bit of extra we all always strive for in our daily work but dont necessarily always have the time for when "doing the tasks" I had two patients that could not talk, but they were in there...you could see it in their eyes...a small gesture of a soft friendly hand brushing away a hair from a cheek showed me that one had that smile still in them...the other smiled and nodded his head after we were done doing his dressing change because I rubbed his back as the Dr. changed the dressing and when I asked him "if he was okay"; even though I had been told in report that he did not speak, he gave me a nod yes and a smile. Give Kindness and it shall be returned to you ten fold.

Extra hands...

March 15th...I worked but was not a staff RN that day, it was my last day to be out of staffing and doing paperwork. The day was a bit chaotic as they seem to be as of late and I helped my fellow RN's out as much as I could. Sometimes that extra hand helps more than one can think....and at the end of the day...we all went home knowing our patients were well taken care of and that the job was done :)

Nummies for the Hunnies :)

March 14th....I got up early and made the loves of my life some breakfast :) On Sunday mornings the Hubby usually makes us breakfast when I am home but I let him and the Lil Miss sleep in and made nummies for us. They were just about ready when they finally woke up. I am learning that it is these small and simple things that make for a wonderful exsistence. I do like the feeling I get knowing that I had a hand in brightening someone's day.

Scratch and Sniff...not so much

So my random act of kindness for March 13th was a very simple one...My Hubby HATES cleaning the litter box but it is one of his chores...we try to share the house work...so as I was cleaning up the laundry room which is where the Kitty's box is I deceided to clean the box for him. A small gesture but none the less it made his day. :)

Finding the path of one's lost way....

So I was very faithful about posting everyday and then I got lost...work and the kid and the Hubby all got me LOL. See what happens when you get home late one night and don't make your post...the snowball effect. Then when you try to pull yourself back together, you realize how lost you are off the path...so after digging thru the underbrush and pushing the shawl of laziness off of myself I am sitting down this afternoon and playing catch up.

Breakfast, YaYa wake Up call and digging for GraveYard dirt

This was my act of kindness for March 12th...was to tired last nite lol to blog: I got to work and no-one wnated to go home because thay all would have had to come back to work at 3pm...So I volunteered to go home....but that was not my actual act...Oh no I had a much big plan...I contatced my Sweet Dawn and because I knew she had been feeling lonely and missing her hubby I took her out to breakfast...

then went and did a surprise wake up call for our other YaYa Kelly :)




Dawn and I spent the morning together, which was nice for her (which was my intention) and nice for me because I never get to spend time with just Dawn and Angelus.

We went to a graveyard after our YaYa wake up call...and Dawn collected her gravedirt.... It has been along time since I have gotten to go to a graveyard and it was not because someone died but for the enjoyment of being there (Since last year in KY). I have always found that graveyards are peacful and calming to the soul...at least for me they are. I am glad that I was able to go on this little outting with Dawn.

Papers and Coffeebreaks...

Today I knew that the girls at work would be stressed...so I brought in biscotti and nummy coffee creamer that we could try and sneak a 5 sec break with. Also, and this is a simple thing, the computers at work were acting crazy and only a few were working so I made sure everyone had their medication administration records printed out so they could give care to our patients while we waited for all the compters to come back online. Simple things really but they made the work day just alittle bit easier.
ONe would think that computerized charting would make the world and easier and sfe place...HA...not when the system goes on the fritz and you only have the desktop's to work from. Makes it alot hard to give patient care...but we did it and got thru...and most important our patients did not suffer or even know that we were having the computer off line...Thank Gods for IT is all I say.