#wecanbehappy

[jilliannbeck-bryant]

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[amandalej]

You Can Be Happy

As a nurse, you will have smooth days, and many stressful days. You get all different types of patients which different personalities. You will get nice families and families who will break you down.

Today, I only had four patients (standard for our cardiothoracic/vascular surgery unit). Of course, everything seems to happen at once. To spare the details, I had come into contact with a lot of unhappy and frustrated people today, both families and patients. Majority of it had to do with things that were not done over the past week, or questions unanswered by doctors. I understand their frustration, but it definitely did not need to be taken out on me. However, I was capable of calming the multiple situations and making the patients/families more comfortable. A listening ear is the biggest thing that you can offer (remember that).

I will not lie, there were two moments during the day that I nearly did not hold back a few tears. Everything was getting to me and the negative energy made me want to break down. I was so close. However, something came over me. I suddenly snapped out of it and realized that EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY. Although, it is definitely okay to cry and let it out, I realized that the things that were stressing me out did not necessarily have to do with me and I handled the situations! They were handled. Things may have been rushed, but what needed to be done got done. People who were unhappy at least had questions answered and felt listened to.

I even had patients say that they would wait for something until the next shift because they felt bad that I was swamped. They didn’t want to break me down. It was almost funny to me, because at that moment I was already in my mindset of happiness and knowing that everything will be OK. WE CAN DO THIS. They should never have to feel like they have to wait for something that is vital to their care. (Now if it’s demanding their fifth fill up of ice chips in one hour that is a different story)

The last hour of work, I felt at complete peace, even though I had many tasks left to do. I stayed calm and relayed the peace to my patients. They appreciated it.

***I should not let any unhappiness and negativity from me rub off onto my patients, and I should not let any unhappiness and negativity from my patients rub onto me.***

Even on the worst of days, we are capable of happiness and we need to spread that to our co-workers, patients, and patient families.