A Sleepless ER Duty

My 1st ER duty wasn't the ER duty that I expected nor wanted. Since morning up to dawn of the next day, ER patients were coming in like there was no end. Most of the patients coming in the ER were due to trauma or a vehicular accident. We had 1 casualty in the ER due to aspiration pneumonia. Aside from the complicated cases, opd cases also came in from morning to dawn. I was expecting that by around 1 in the morning I could get some sleep but unfortunately what I expected didn't happen. Insted of expecting to get sleep, I didn't get any, I only got a shallow closing of the eyes for less than 30 minutes I guess.

I was somewhat awake until 8 in the moring when we had our moring endorsements of the patients that were left from the night. After endorsements and once our relievers are already there, I went straight to the 4th floor to get some valuable and much needed sleep. I got around 2 hours of sleep before I went home.

Tomorrow marks another tour of duty at the ER, hopefully sleep won't be that elusive as what happen in my first duty. Pleasant Day