@zozagoon
Wow, if I had a nickel for every time my patient confessed to murder, I'd have two nickels—which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
My thoughts go out to the nurses and aides that are having to deal with 400 officers trying to come in and out of their ICU to visit the wounded officer.
If there’s one group of people who uniformly believe that hospital rules don’t apply to them, it’s the police.
Nursing in 2020:
Me: Hi
Patient: I wish you would all just fucking die.
Me: ok, well here’s your call light, make sure you don’t get up without calling us.
Sent my doc a message about my heart rate and she dismissed it saying the watch might not be accurate.
Ma’am, I’ve been wearing an Apple Watch pretty much 24/7 for the last 4 years and it’s more accurate than our hospital telemetry monitors.
*Prepping patient for trip to MRI*
Me: fair warning, I’m not a great driver.
Patient: most women aren’t
Me: hey now, at least I’ve never had brain surgery after a motorcycle wreck.
Patient: …
Me: too much?
Patient: no, that’s fair.
Emergency room nursing taught me that the nurse wearing the most inappropriate t-shirt probably was gonna be the one to save your life and the one in the perfectly pressed scrub top was probably a new grad.
@jdillardwright
@TransNursing
i would have to disagree . ive worked in ICU’s my whole career and been on the other side as a family member. dress can show professionalism and that instills confidence. I can see why they don’t want a nurse wearing a hoodie over scrubs caring for patients.
Another interesting thing is that they’re trying to enforce dress code. They’re saying they’re gonna send us home.
And I’m just wondering who is gonna come take report so I can go home? Like who’s taking all 3 of my patients.
Send me home while you’re begging for pickups.
“There's a lot of science in nursing, to be sure, but like a lot of things, a lot depends on the user.” —me to the nursing student, as I roll the crash cart in front of my patient’s room to ward off bad juju.
My kid lost his iPhone at an amusement park today. I claim it was stolen.
They ignored the phone calls, the lost banner, the lost sound. They bypassed lost and found and went home.
Imagine their surprise when I pulled into their driveway while they were still unloading the car.
Nursing is def one of those careers where you’re drinking after work with someone that was born in 1975 and also someone born in 2000 and it’s totally normal.
just woke up. have an email from boss re: my quitting.
not going to read that until i get to work. that way if it pisses me off, at least I'm already on the clock.
A floor nurse got floated to ER to take hold patients the other night.
I helped her find things, pulled meds while she waited for pharmacy to add her to our Pyxis, etc.
After a couple hours she said, “I take back all the shit I talked about ER nurses. This is a nightmare.”
Elevator conversation—
RN: you hear the 8 codes/rapids called for our unit today?
Me: yeah, it sounded like a shitshow.
RN: 4 were mine, 2 rapids, a code stroke and a code blue.
Me: I don’t know how you do it.
RN: with 6 pts, you prioritize and decide who to neglect.
This nurse has been doing a series of videos where she gets floated to other jobs because she’s too sick to take patients. Today it’s pharmacy.
I’m crying. 😂😂😂
TW:
A former coworker of mine, an ER RN, died of suicide yesterday.
The news of which has just shaken me. From my partner, to Joanna, and now to this friend, I just keep seeing friends and nurses die at their own hands.
Tripled again.
2 have vents.
2 are q1 neuros
1 has a bolt with q1 pupil/ICP check
1 pulled out 3 ivs on day shift and needs regular redirection.
Just not safe.
We have 8 computers in the nurse’s station. So tell me why the resident closes out someone’s charting and logs in.
There’s only 3 nurses here. That’s 5 other computers.
Me, the nurse: I’m gonna suggest something that may be controversial… but what if, just follow me for a second…what if we restart the home meds that have controlled her blood pressure for years?
Neurosurgery team:
@blkxstyles
@nicoleeeejg
As a mutual of mine likes to say,
"If Betsy DeVos can be the US Sec. of Education I can do whatever the fuck it is you do here." -my cover letter in perpetuity
I forgot to mention that someone dropped stat labs on my patient at 6:53 am. So I drew them real quick, trying to help day shift. They resulted in report.
Drumroll 🥁 Please!
Na: 125
🤡💩🤡💩🤡💩
We still have a bunch of yard signs from the beginning of COVID that say “A healthcare hero lives here” and I kinda want to put them around cemetery entrances.
@ZaylanGriffinSC
@redscarepilled
As a nurse who regularly cares for organ donor patients, I’ve yet to see a uterus or an ovary be recovered for transplantation.
But keep being mad about things y’all making up in your minds.
PTO should pay your average working rate. Not your base rate.
PTO should include your normal shift differentials.
Just one more way that wage theft is perpetrated against HCW.
My last two shifts: Two emergent STEMIs and an urgent NSTEMI all with cath lab activation and one going to surgery for a CABG.
My breakfast: bacon, biscuits and gravy, and hash brown casserole.
My patient had an EToH of 443 endorsing 20-25 shots per night, but that he hadn’t drank in 30 hours.
My other patient definitely didn’t take any drugs but went from having no gag reflex and being bagged to AOx4 after 2 of narcan.
Just another day in the ER.
I called out because I felt it would be irresponsible to take care of three critical care patients on 3ish hours of sleep.
I know lots of people would have pulled through and did it. Honestly, I probably would as a tech. But…
RN: Hi, yes the patient in bed one is having heartburn but doesn’t have anything ordered. Anything we can do?
Inpatient NP: Place an order for a one time dose of TUM. Not TUMS. A single TUM. Not PRN. One single TUM one time.
RN: …
My patient who is in restraints, mitts, maxed out on precedex, and got 2 of Ativan at 10pm was hitting himself in the chest to make the monitor look like VTACH.
I didn't realize how early on I received my first COVID-19 vaccine. The first US dose was given on the 14th of December. I got mine on the 18th.
I took the first available appointment. No regrets.
I changed this patient’s a-line dressing last week. It’s still on there with my initials.
Allegedly someone changed the tubing this week… but there’s no way you’re getting that tubing off without destroying that dressing.
So I’m assuming someone just relabeled the tubing.
I thought nursing school was dumb but this RN-BSN program is really the stupidest thing I’ve ever done and that’s coming from someone that falls in love with straight women.