![]() ![]() However, don’t expect to find too many available treadmills. I will forgive those co-workers who have been harassing, hostile and hateful - and I will fiercely defend victims of workplace abuse. Gyms may have begun to reopen in your area in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. I want to ease their burden, not become one.Ĩ I will practice forgiveness. You never know what else the newbie may be carrying on her shoulders. It’s hard trying to get new things right and fit into a clique. I will introduce myself, help them any way I can and share all the shortcuts the OR natives practice. I will not be condescending or mean to new staff. I will turn a deaf ear or leave the area when the backbiters start up.ħ I will shepherd new nurses. I don’t like to hear my friends run down. When things aren’t coming forth as fast as I’d like them to, like my relief when it’s my “gittin’ off time,” I will remain calm and recite my special Serenity Prayer: “God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do and the eyesight to tell the difference.”Ħ I will not gossip. I could be stuck in that muddled mess in OR2.ĥ I will practice patience. I will also appreciate the surgery to which I’ve been assigned. ![]() I can just include “leggings on, undergarments off” as part of the physical assessment. It only takes a few minutes to do it myself. So what if pre-op didn’t put the SCD leggings on or take the underwear off the patient. I will appreciate doing the things that used to aggravate me. I can’t always count on a kindly anesthetist to open a liter of NaCl 0.9% for me.Ĥ I will have an attitude of gratitude. Soon after I stop taking them, my trigger-fingered thumbs get stuck in the upright and locked position like a hitchhiker’s. I will remind Siri to remind me to take my arthritis meds. Besides, no reputable surgeon is going to remove my belly and butt fat and call it a lumpectomy.ģ I will take my medicine. When Mom told me to clean my plate, she wasn’t talking about the cake plate. I can’t stand crowds.Ģ I will eat healthy. Yes, I will use my gym membership, but only after the annoying resolutioners fade away before the calendar flips to February. OR nursing is strenuous, but taking 10,000 steps in an 8-hour shift is not the same as a cardio work on a treadmill - even though I feel like a hamster on a wheel most days - and lifting a 350-pound patient’s tree trunk of a leg while someone preps it doesn’t count as bench pressing. Like LA Fitness, its 'were here' count slowed down as the month rolled on. Day, but it remains far from the peak of resolutioner season: pre-MLK Day and post-New Year's Day. Instead of collapsing on the recliner when I get off work, I’m going to get this pear-shaped bod back in shape. Planet Fitness showed a slight rebound after its 'talking about' count tapered off right around Martin Luther King Jr. We all start off the New Year with lofty fitness resolutions, but I mean it this time. With you as my witness, I resolve to keep all of most of some of these 8 resolutions - at least until we meet here again next month.ġ I will go to the gym. It’s one thing to make New Year’s resolutions, quite another to keep them. ![]()
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