What "Makes Your Day" At Work?

[Saphire]

There are many things in my work that are mundane or repetitive, which is true for almost everyone I am sure. But sometimes something happens that makes you say "this is what I am meant to do". Yesterday at work, I had a patient who had not climbed stairs for three years. After working with her for several days, I felt she had the strength to tackle steps. I talked to her about it and encouraged her, and she reluctantly agreed to try it. Well, she did it, and the look on her face was priceless, she was so overjoyed. I told her she made my day, and she was quick to point out that I made HER day. She started talking about how she could get out in her yard again and feed her birds, and how she could sit in the sun. It is moments like these I think I have the most important work in the world.
What about you? What "makes your day" in your field of work?

 

[Christine]

Compared to your post, mine's kind of sad: what makes my day at work? A really, really good parking spot in the garage. Other than that, nothing really gratifying ever happens.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

when it's 5:00 and I'm going home.

 

[mickeyboat]

Leaving ...

Opening my paycheck ...

Actually, when I figure something out I have been working on and putting off for a long time, it is very gratifying.

Denae

 

[grumpyvet]

Christine...sometimes that is about all that happens good at my job too. We have to street park in a beach community, so often a spot is hard to fine.
Luckily I also get some hurrah moments!! I'm a veterinarian, so the things that make my day are 1). a good puppykitten cuddle, 2). a good prognosis, 30. a miracle recovery, and 4). Giving old Mrs. Jones who has been widowed for 10 years another couple quality months will beloved Fluffy!! Those are good days!!!

 

[korbbec]

When my boss does not come in and I do not have to listen to her rant for 3 hours about her bloody stools and her flu and body aches and throat cancer and sty in her eye and her unruly 7 yo son bit someone at school and on and on- shear torture getting locked in a small business with a hypochodriac single mother who thinks the world is in a conspiracy against her.

I wish I had better things to look forward to.

 

[wendy46001]

I guess i have a depressing job, but what makes my day is when someone is still alive...it doesn’t happen too much in this part of the hospital (cancer research) but every once in awhile I call to check on someone and they are still fighting....makes it a good day

Also when its been a bad week five pm on Friday….can feel like winning the lottery

 

[Kycha]

What makes my day at work is when my phone doesn't ring. I process payroll for a construction company with over 800 employees. Some Friday's(which is payday), my phone can ring off the hook with people having issues with their paycheck. Honestly, there are some days I just put the phone on do not disturb.

Btw, today has been a decent day. Only 3 phone calls about paychecks.

 

[MScott1851]

Anytime I do a good job on a patient and know that they are going to be better as a direct result of what I've done. Whether I did CPR and got a perfusing rhythm back, or I arranged for a meal and a taxi ride home for an elderly person, or just sat and listened to someone.

I had a patient have a massive stroke two days ago, he was responsive to pain, very agitated, but his pressure wasn't high enough for us to sedate him, and we couldn't give anything to RAISE his pressure, either. His family wanted him to be a full code, but left the ER within 30 minutes after they got there. Never came back. I noticed about two hours into his care, that if I just held his good hand, and stroked his head, he calmed down, stopped whimpering, his heart rate dropped a little, his respiratory rate dropped to normal, and his 02 sat went up. I stayed after my shift until he went to the ICU just sitting with him, and cried all the way home.

I have crappy, crappy days where I don't eat or even use the bathroom, but the "good' moments make it all worthwhile.

 

[mickeyboat]

I had a patient have a massive stroke two days ago, he was responsive to pain, very agitated, but his pressure wasn't high enough for us to sedate him, and we couldn't give anything to RAISE his pressure, either. His family wanted him to be a full code, but left the ER within 30 minutes after they got there. Never came back. I noticed about two hours into his care, that if I just held his good hand, and stroked his head, he calmed down, stopped whimpering, his heart rate dropped a little, his respiratory rate dropped to normal, and his 02 sat went up. I stayed after my shift until he went to the ICU just sitting with him, and cried all the way home.

Made me feel so sad to hear that! You are a wonderful person to care about strangers the way you do.

Denae

 

[SwedishMeatball]

But sometimes something happens that makes you say "this is what I am meant to do".

I used to have that happen a lot when I was teaching. I sure do miss it.

 

[LJC1861]

I work with teenagers and young adults with Autism. I have learned to lok for and appreciate the small miracles that occur each day.....

...When M grabs my hand and says "where's Mickey?"....she loves Disney as much as I do.

....When H looks at my feet every day to see what color crocs I am wearing. When she gets excited when I am wearing New Balance sneakers ( her favorites) and laughs because our feet match.

...When I take J out on an outing and he knows which car in the parking lot is mine, even though he has never ridden in it before and then when he takes my hand as we walk into the store.

...When R wants to know where I have been for the past few days because he missed me.

...When I go to school for a visit and R comes running down the hallway to show me what he made for the science fair.

...When a parent, or a teacher tells me that I am doing a good job.

I truly love the work I do, and the residents I serve. I learn SO much from them each day and consider myself blessed to have them in my life.

Linda

 

[Saphire]

I noticed about two hours into his care, that if I just held his good hand, and stroked his head, he calmed down, stopped whimpering, his heart rate dropped a little, his respiratory rate dropped to normal, and his 02 sat went up. I stayed after my shift until he went to the ICU just sitting with him, and cried all the way home.

The comfort of the human touch.

 

[dodukes]

When the clock hits 4:30 and I can go home!

Honestly I cant find anything rewarding or fulfilling about my job.

 

[Narnian_Princess]

Mine is when my boss gives me a group of kids to teach during karate class, and as soon as he says "I want my _____ belts to go with Miss Rachel," they all run over to me saying, "Yay, Miss Rachel!" and hugging me. Or when they say, "I want to go with you, Miss Rachel," "I wish you were teaching today," etc. The rest of my job is thankless but those moments make me feel like I'm actually worth something.

 

[sugarpie]

I love discharging patients!

It's work, but it's great watching them walk out the door.

Sometimes it's sad, too. Like when there's nobody to take them home.

 

[LaraK]

Anytime I do a good job on a patient and know that they are going to be better as a direct result of what I've done. Whether I did CPR and got a perfusing rhythm back, or I arranged for a meal and a taxi ride home for an elderly person, or just sat and listened to someone.

I had a patient have a massive stroke two days ago, he was responsive to pain, very agitated, but his pressure wasn't high enough for us to sedate him, and we couldn't give anything to RAISE his pressure, either. His family wanted him to be a full code, but left the ER within 30 minutes after they got there. Never came back. I noticed about two hours into his care, that if I just held his good hand, and stroked his head, he calmed down, stopped whimpering, his heart rate dropped a little, his respiratory rate dropped to normal, and his 02 sat went up. I stayed after my shift until he went to the ICU just sitting with him, and cried all the way home.

I have crappy, crappy days where I don't eat or even use the bathroom, but the "good' moments make it all worthwhile.

Want to come and work in my hospital?

For me, some days it's touching someone, seeing something you did that made a difference, watching a miracle happen.

Some days it's the clock hitting 5 so I can leave.

There are good days and bad days.

 

[daisyduck123]

What "makes your day" in your field of work?

When "Timmy" is absent!!

 

[Chattyaholic]

Good tippers!

No, seriously, it makes my day to have a good day at work. No grumpy, demanding customers, just friendly, nice ones. And to have it be nicely paced out, not slammed so we can't keep up, not dead so we don't have anything to do (and we don't make money that way either), just steady.
Love days like that!!

 

[crzy4dsny]

When I end it after 15 hours overtime