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Friday, June 7, 2019

Murphy's Laws Of Respiratory Therapy

I recently wrote a post for asthma.net called, "Murphy's Laws of Asthma." I figured this idea can be applied to our profession too. You know, what can go wrong will. So, without further adieu, here are Murphy's Laws For Respiratory Therapy.

When you're in a hurry to chart, that little circle will go round and round and round and round.

When you finally get a chance to sit, every person who could possibly annoy you will. 

As you approach the time clock, you'll realize you left your badge at home. 

If you forget your badge, someone behind a door you need your badge to get into will need you. 

When you get home after a long, hard days work, you'll realize you still have your work phone in your pocket. 

The day you're slow and have hardly any patients is when you're most likely to forget to do your treatments. 

If you get to work hoping for a good day, shit will hit the fan. 

If it's slow and your coworkers are sent home early, shit will hit the fan. 

Right at the moment you're hoping to go home early shit will hit the fan. 

After you get all gowned up and enter an isolation room, you'll realize you need something not in the room. 

After you get all gowned up and inter an isolation room, your phone will ring. 

You took your medicine out of the Pyxis. When you get to the room and get the nebulizer out of the bag you can't find your medicine. 

Your home and having a nice relaxing evening. You make the mistake of answering the phone and it's your work wanting you to come in. 

When you are in a hurry and need a piece of equipment STAT, it won't be where it's supposed to be. 

If you have the ETT ready expecting to intubate a patient, the patient will be fine. 

If you are called to be on standby because a patient in ER does not look good, and you do not have your ETT ready, is when you're most likely to need it. 

When the ER doctor you most enjoy working with is working, you won't be needed in the ER. But, when the ER doctor you least enjoy working with is working, you will be needed in the ER, and frequently. 

Feel free to add to this list in the comments below. 


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