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The List for the 2018-19 Season: Episode 1

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A lot of people designate a specific room as their work room. They don’t take personal stuff into the room. They don’t take work stuff out of the room. There is a literal physical separation between work and home.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
A lot of people designate a specific room as their work room. They don’t take personal stuff into the room. They don’t take work stuff out of the room. There is a literal physical separation between work and home.
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And do the out of office message on email for non-work hours.

I haven't worked as an NP for a few yrs now but I found toward the end that people struggle to set boundaries now that there is an ability to access work via email and phone 24-7. People would answer work calls (when not on-call) at ridiculous hours, do email when they were at home, etc. Some interesting research about the dopamine rush when things are accomplished that made it equivalent to chain smoking. You light up (look) without thinking and then think afterwards- Oh poo, I was going to wait.

Same thing with sleep- somewhere in the last couple of decades people stopped thinking it was necessary and started to think it was optional- They work at night and do 'just one more thing'- that messes with the ability to initiate and maintain sleep= to the point where they are sleep deprived= feeling like crap, being less efficient,
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
A lot of people designate a specific room as their work room. They don’t take personal stuff into the room. They don’t take work stuff out of the room. There is a literal physical separation between work and home.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Keep it separate. For your health, and your performance.
 
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I dropped out of my remaining race schedule for the year. Anti-List for several reasons:

1. My right foot is so messed up right now and will probably require surgery to repair any of it. Not running will definitely allow my foot to heal.

2. In the past, there was motivation aplenty. Felt like there was something to prove. This year, it feels like I can't be bothered to get out the door to train.

3. Grad school. This really needs to be a priority.

4. Finally, it's not fun right now, and I said if it wasn't fun, I was going to drop. Well, it's not fun, and so I'm dropping out.
 
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You know what's great? Running a code on your patient from start to finish, saving her life, staying an hour late to finish documenting everything and then getting 3 phone calls on your day off telling you didn't do enough documenting and that your narrative note doesn't specifically match the clunky, secondary, button-clicking documentation.
 
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bostonewe said:
You know what's great? Running a code on your patient from start to finish, saving her life, staying an hour late to finish documenting everything and then getting 3 phone calls on your day off telling you didn't do enough documenting and that your narrative note doesn't specifically match the clunky, secondary, button-clicking documentation.
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You know what I think? I think I wouldn't answer the phone. And I won't type my opinion about EMRs. They are Satan.
 
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Thinking you have everything all set only to find out the international business that you are dealing with for tix has just changed the system and you are NOT all set is on the LIST!!
 
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Successful surgery to have a plate and screws put in my right foot and a muscle lengthened: Anti-List.

Shelby accompanying me and taking care of me for the crucial 48 hours after surgery: Anti-List.

Realizing I will have to use my butt to get up and down my apartment stairs until clear to walk again: List.
 
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mookie1995 said:
Just think how good your butt will look after this workout :)
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This is the rationale I had for buying a townhouse with 4 levels.

All it's given me is thighs that can crack a diamond.
 
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Kepler said:
This is the rationale I had for buying a townhouse with 4 levels.

All it's given me is thighs that can crack a diamond.
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Unless I'm carrying many things, I take the stairs to my 3rd floor apt. Add to that I'm on my feet 8 hours a day for work (lifting things), that's how I sorta keep in shape.
 
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Kepler said:
Though it does make you look like a cat expressing its anal glands.
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I need gloves and my bike shorts to help with this.

The fact that the anesthesia isn't out of my system yet is on The List. How long does it take that stuff to get out? All I want to do lately is take naps.

My support system is on the Anti-List. They've stepped up.
 
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MissThundercat said:
I need gloves and my bike shorts to help with this.

The fact that the anesthesia isn't out of my system yet is on The List. How long does it take that stuff to get out? All I want to do lately is take naps.

My support system is on the Anti-List. They've stepped up.
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After a week, I would think the anesthesia cocktail should be gone.
 
MissThundercat said:
Could have also been the Oxycodone. I do not know.
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Or a combination. Don’t forget, even though it was just corrective surgery on your foot, it still was a form of trauma overall to your system. Your body is telling you to rest. Every movement now is an effort so that also adds to it.
 
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MissThundercat said:
Could have also been the Oxycodone. I do not know.
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Oxycodone will mess up your head in a great many ways. It disrupts your brain's ability to concentrate for long, and can disrupt sleep patterns. When I had my first shoulder surgery it was my sleeping buddy for about two months. Then I was complaining to a coworker about feeling out of sorts, that I couldn't perform my job as well as I had a few months prior, having not exactly pegged it to my surgery then. She asked about the oxy, and sent me some info when I confirmed that it was my prescription. I went cold turkey then and there. After my second shoulder surgery, I took it for the first three days and then it was all ibuprofen and Tylenol from then on out.
 
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I hate Oxy and Perc.

Prescribed Oxy once. I was bouncing off the walls in jitters. So the next time, they prescribed Perc. Same thing happened. F that stuff. I'll sign the form that says I refused it, and I won't even blink.
 
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