i often joke that ICU nursing is the easiest job in nursing

That all you do, all day is sit there.

And press a button- all ur numbers come (Cause the computer now saves the data from the monitors! -- back when I started in 2013, this was not the case), u press F9 - then u save.
Then you go to the next page.
For obs,
For resps.
for your fluid balance.
write in a few things the computer wouldn't know (like how much urine came out or what's the drain output).

Save

wait for the next hour.

Check your emails....

maybe a roll, some mouth care...

But no. I had those impervious gowns on all day and i sweated like a pig getting all this stuff done.

( Today was just one of those insanely busy days where you just double do everything you initially did because you didn't know what the doctors plans were )

so if the doc had told us they wanted to do a line change on Sunday: Marj probs wouldn't have done the line change and I would have left the TPN until 15:00 and done it all, in one neat and tidy go. and not wasted like, how many syringes...

When I got home I realised I left the box containing the spare cake from Bels' Big Bird cake on the flight deck, empty of cake - and unwashed.

Ooops.