amen!! that is so awesome that you get to pray before every shift begins...
"since the eight hours have all run together into a sort of strange, 'did that honestly happen?'" I can relate to that, during my internal medicine internship we had such an incredibly-out-of-the-movie 16 hour shift...imagine a 20 something year old intoxicated and drugged young man ripped the IV off of his arm, a 30 something year old mentally ill man tied to his bed completely sedated (or so we thought) walking up at 3am pretending he had a gun in his hand and yelling "Bam, Bam, Bam, Bam"(and that was just during the first half of the shift)...all internal medicine residents that night were women, all interns were women and the only men there were the patients family and the patients themselves....but the Lord is good and like you said he is concerned with the details, everything turned out well we are still alive and the patients got the proper attention.