Day 1 of 8.

Well, it was a busy one but I expected that. No break so I've just had a bacon butty and some chocolate. I was working with my favourite sister E. I took over from a nurse that only ever seems to do half a job. There was loads for me to do as soon as I came on. I was doing lunchtime medications, including IVs. Half the paperwork wasn't done for the ICU patients. It's annoying. My feet are killing me and my legs started aching towards the end of the shift; didn't take me long to get out of the swing of things! There were a ton of IVs to do, including one that I'd never heard of before so had to look it up. There are patients in who have been in for ages. People who need help mobilising etc. We have so few staff and so much work to do. Same old story. Ah well, on a double shift tomorrow. Should be... interesting!