favorite moment.

Background note: we put labels on the IV tubing that says "Change Thursday" or whatever day, to remind us to change the tubing.

One of the funniest moments on my floor happened when I had only been off of orientation maybe 2 weeks. I was hired with a male, 27ish year old nurse from my nursing school class. He is very much an a-type personality. He has two bachelor's degrees and a master's degree in microbiology and only received one B in all of those classes. Talk about dork! Anyway... one night we were both struggling and stressed out (as usual). I had followed a day nurse that is notorious for leaving a crap heap behind for night shift to fix (we'll call him Tim). This particular day I remember he had not given random patients any of their afternoon medications, and screwed up some other things. I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off. I came out of one room at a point and Mr Perfect was standing at a computer looking totally flustered as well. I said out of pure frustration and stress something to the effect of:
"Man, I really got screwed today! Tim left all this crap for me to do! What a Dbag!"

To which he replied:
"I know man! Barry left me crap too!"

ME: "like what?"

Mr Perfect: "None of the tubes are labeled!"

I don't know why but in all of my frustration about like 6 hour late Dilantin doses, the fact that Mr Perfect's tubes weren't labeled and he was flipping out about it, made me crack up and lighten up as well. Because he's just such a dork.