My quiet night

Sunday's never are the most busy day's to be on a ward, and the night shifts are usually even quieter. So, naturally I should be on night sift Sunday. The shift started off with...well, me having a cup of tea. Well, have to get your priorities right. After starting the shift proper after visiting time ended, the start was to get out the tea trolley and get the tea out to patients (nutritional intake and that, it is a contemporary issue of the RCN at the moment). The next job on the list was to check the blood sugar levels of the diabetic patients (IDDM and NIDDIM). This was an unremarkable even, but the main reason that I was pottering around at the start of this shift doing that was that there is no HCA on the ward. However, then we got to grips with the drug round at 22:00, which went without too much first though there was a few injections to do which kept me going. There are not many jobs which a student nurse can do, though having the injections to do is one that I have commonly been given to do. This is nice as it is getting near the time ehien I will be qualifying. For the rest of the night, there was no work really to do, save for a handful of shout's on the buzzer for a commode, and there was a playfull telemetary set which CCU seemed to be phoning about with the signal going down. The patients were OK and it was to be 6am when we got the surgery patients up and showered that there was any planned work to do. Once they were up, showered, consented, checked on the checklist and ready to roll, I was sent off duty.