I am glad that my preceptor showed up last night for our duty. Although she has not been of help that much because she has some patients that required monitoring, having her around made me feel confident that I won’t slip. She let me do the endorsement to the incoming shift on my own. I do not know if the incoming charge nurse was just nice but he did not roast me. I browsed through my to-do list and I thought that I was able to fulfil my tasks.
I was able to finish the endorsement on time including the completion of my logbooks. I had to wait for them to finish their endorsement to the incoming bedside nurse and their charting.
We were able to punch out before 9:00 am and I asked them to go the Sunday bazaar at the Lung Center of the Philippines to check for the rvs for sale We had our brunch there under a make shift tent in the heat of the sun. It was a good shift and we had a good time to cap it off.

After three days of getting away from the hospital, I am again scheduled to report for work, as a charge nurse. Excitement and nervousness are now setting in. I have not recovered yet from the mistake that I have committed in my last duty. Actually, the order was not made in my shift but being the PM shift, it was my job to make sure that the orders in the past 24 hours have been carried out accordingly which I failed to do considering that I have done my 24-hour check already.
The mistake was not fatal but still it is a failure on my part. Lesson learned.

It’s my second day of being a charge nurse, first at night shift. Tasks are more demanding as doing the 24-hour check of the chart making sure that all the doctors’ orders were carried out, medications on the Kardex and the medication sheet are updated, line dues have been changed, diet and attending lists and so much more!
Good thing my preceptor’s schedule was still structured with mine and there’s another senior staff who’s willing to guide me.
There were no attendings who made their rounds when my shift started so I was able to start with my 24-hour check at 10:00 pm. Before the stroke of midnight, the phone rang, on the guy on the other line asked for a roll call of patient, I hesitated because he sounded like the supervisor on duty but yet he introduced himself as the guy from the admitting group asking for a roll call. I started to read patient’s names and as I was about to read the third patient, he passed the phone to someone else whom I recognized the voice as my preceptor when I was still an orientee. I immediately burst their bubble. They were having a shot session at a colleagues house and they have decided to play prank call on me.
They almost got me there!