small victories of an ER nurse

Sometimes you have to celebrate the small victories in ER nursing, 'cause Lord knows they don't come that often. So here are some things that make me want to high five somebody:

1) When I give someone activated charcoal for an overdose and they drink it down and do not vomit. Score one for me.
2) When you give an old person an enema and they make it to the toilet in time. Yes!
3) When someone tells you they are a VERY HARD IV stick and you get it on the first try. In your face!
4) When you get an inpatient room that is ready and the nurse can actually take report. Miracles do happen....
5) When that drug seeker comes in and there are twenty people in the waiting room.
6) When the equipment works, the supplies are there, the pharmacy is fast...
7) When that drunk finds a relative to drive him home and you don't have to try and find him a bed at detox or keep him overnight to sleep it off.
8) When it snows so deep, is so cold, that no one ventures in except real emergencies. What a concept.
9) When the female docs or NPs are on and you don't have assist to with pelvics.
10) When that unstable MI makes it out of the ER and to the cath lab before they go into V fib.