In the realm of world wisdom and wrapping up nurse’s week: Do you ever have one of those days when everything seems to click?

You know the days I’m talking about.

• Every light is green
• The best parking spot in the hospital lot is open when you arrive
• You shift report goes like clockwork
• Every IV is perfect
• You slide NG tubes in “Like Butta”
• Your relief arrives on time, your charting is done, and you can leave on time for a change

And then you have the other days when every thing is harder than it needs to be.

• You drive in behind a school bus and it makes you late because it stops to pick up students every 5 feet!
• You leave the house and have to go back after 10 minutes because you left your badge on the kitchen table!
• You have a free day to get all of the extra stuff done at home and one of your kids decides to get sick and you get nothing done!
• You get to the parking lot and they are resurfacing the lot and you have to park a mile away!
• It’s pouring rain and your kids took the umbrellas out of the car to sword fight, again!
• When you finally get in to work, you can do anything right at work: IV pumps break when you walk by, you miss IVs, can’t get NG tubes placed, one of your patients calls you all the time, one of your patients never calls you and then falls trying to get out of bed to use the bathroom
• Your relief is late and you have to stay and cover!

Need some perspective? You are not alone. Seems like it’s been one of those weeks in the nurse and medical blogosphere:

Check out this blog post over at PixelRn’s blog. She has one of the harder days recently and writes about it on her blog.

ERNursey writes about getting peed on at the beginning of her shift — and then says it went DOWNHILL from there.

EMTs in the field have it, too!  Here’s a great comment by the author of the Random Acts of Reality blog about a member of the London Ambulance Service.