Ramblings

So I bought this garlic at the grocery store the other day. I couldn't find the regular garlic and wound up with "Elephant Garlic." I wasn't sure what that meant, but hey, garlic is garlic I thought. I pulled it out to put in my pasta sauce and it's freakin' huge! I took a picture of its hugeness but for some reason blogspot does not like my picture and I can not share it with you. Sad. Because it is HUGE. It's almost a small onion. So huge, in fact, I had to cut one clove in half to use next time.

This year will be the first time I make Thanksgiving dinner all by myself. I have to work an evening shift that day so I guess we will eat at 1:00 or so. How big of a turkey do I buy for 3 people? And how early do I have to get up to put it in the oven? And how long does it take to defrost in the refrigerator? I'll have to make a menu so I can do a grocery run soon.

I've noticed at the hospital they have no IV push protocol. Or maybe they have it but keep it hidden because I have seen no one use or talk about it. This is odd for several reasons but I will not go into them. Everything here is IVP. All pt's seem to get narcs and phenergan IVP if they are tolerating po meds or not even nauseous. What's with that??? I pushed metoprolol and labetalol today on unmonitored pt's!!! (RN's on Marburg gasp here.) I nearly freaked out. Nothing is in a minibag. Ever. Except antibiotics. Which I hear they used to push up until very recently. No wonder there are so many addicts!! Phenergan 25 mg? Benadryl 50 mg? Demerol 50mg? Sure. No problem. And another thing. Where are all the supplies? What do you mean I have to order opsite, SCD's, TEDS, and abd pads from central supply? And why can't I get a normal saline bag from the pyxis to piggyback with my antibiotic?? The choice here, you ask? Waste 30 cc of the med (which is a lot if you only have 65cc to begin with) to prime the weird IV tubing or free flow it to the pt. What would you do?