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swoon ganz

@swoonganz

1 year

My phone knows what’s up.

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@swoonganz

2 months

The saddest part of nuking my old account is losing a thread I live tweeted on a flight during which the couple next to me got in a fight over the guy wanting to wear shorts to a wedding. It was the only time I’ve paid for wifi on a plane bc it turned out the wedding was THEIRS.

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4 months

About a year ago I came across a TT video of a woman around my age who developed a tongue sore that kept growing. Her doctors attributed it to her Crohn's disease. In the span of 6 weeks, it continued to grow along the entire side of her tongue.

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I've been following her journey and today I saw an update from her family. She has been enrolled in inpatient hospice. She has a husband and 3 young children (the youngest is around 1 year old). My heart absolutely breaks for her and her family.

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4 months

By the time she got a diagnosis, her cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) was already stage IV. She filmed herself throughout her recovery from extensive surgery (removal of half her tongue, flap creation, lymph node excision, tracheostomy, feeding tube).

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4 months

In one of her videos she talks about how she didn't even know what kind of doctor to try to see. The appointment they offered her was months in the future so she pleaded with an ENT to do a biopsy of her tongue.

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4 months

The cancer kept coming back despite aggressive radiation, chemotherapy. It spread to her lungs and she required surgery to stent her airway and very briefly required ECMO. Still, it continued to spread. She had been in the process of enrolling in a clinical trial.

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@swoonganz

4 months

If you regularly see a dentist, they should be inspecting your tongue and palpating it during your visit. It's also not a bad idea to do this at home from time to time. Her cancer grew at an extremely rapid pace.

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@swoonganz

7 months

*slaps side of boat* This baby can hold so much norovirus

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@JoshyBeSloshy

7 months

new cruise ship coming in 2025 🤌🏾

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2 months

A plot twist no one could have predicted.

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@swoonganz

2 months

@ecobookworm This was not going to be a beach wedding

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2 months

The flight attendants and I exchanged many knowing looks as they came around with drinks.

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@swoonganz

5 months

As a HCW it is your duty to inform your patient that they’re welcome to the supplies in their room as well as whatever else they want before discharge. Wound care supplies? Here’s a bag. You want another pair of mesh underwear? Here’s 5. If you can carry it, you can have it.

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4 months

Her TikTok account is here: She also has a GFM:

Rally For Rachel- Funeral Expenses, organisiert von Jamie Walters

Hi Everyone, I’m Rachel’s sister in law Jamie Walters. Rachel and Sha… Jamie Walters braucht deine Unterstützung für Rally For Rachel- Funeral Expenses

www.gofundme.com

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@swoonganz

3 months

A woman on TT made a video asking people who tested positive for group b strep during pregnancy whether or not they declined antibiotics because she’s getting her swab and wants input so she can make an “informed decision” and now I will never know peace.

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@swoonganz

2 months

I sat through the entire flight with headphones in that weren't even connected to anything. I can't even call it eavesdropping because they were quiet yelling to each other.

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@swoonganz

2 months

Y’all really missed out

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@swoonganz

3 months

The way doctors will just leave ultrasound gel on a patient’s chest and walk out of the room is disturbing.

NurseKelsey (she/her) 🌈✨🎉❤️🏳️‍🌈

@nursekelsey

3 months

PLEASE leave a patient how you found them or even better. If you unsnapped their gown, took off a dressing, muted their TV, turned their lights on brighter…undo, fix, redo, make right all of that before you leave the room. Not only for patient safety but their dignity as well!

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@swoonganz

4 months

A few people are asking about mouth sores and Crohn’s. It is a known occurrence. Doesn’t change the fact that her concerns were dismissed, but it’s not entirely out of left field. This is from UpToDate:

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@swoonganz

3 months

No one: Absolutely no one: Figs scrubs:

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@swoonganz

4 months

And if you come here to spread misinformation about HPV vaccines specifically or ask if Rachel was vaccinated against COVID, you will be blocked and your comment will be hidden if I see it. Do not use Rachel's story to spread dangerous lies.

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2 months

I owe it all to Southwest's flight from MDW to RDU.

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2 months

@vrcraftauthor The guy started crying (he was in the middle seat next to me)

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2 months

@toffetomas Someone (not pointing fingers) disagreed very loudly.

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3 months

Pros: your baby doesn’t die of sepsis Cons: ??????

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@swoonganz

2 months

Behind every “heart warming” story, is a systemic failure in this country.

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@swoonganz

4 months

As @kiswanson has pointed out, a large majority of oropharyngeal cancers are linked to HPV infection. The HPV vaccine is now approved up to 45 years of age.

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4 months

@RNingScissors I can't even imagine. I've taken care of a lot of head and neck cancer patients post-op and even just the drastic changes to your appearance (nevermind the life threatening cancer) would shake anyone.

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2 months

It has been 7 years and I still think about them from time to time. The only two options are: -divorce within the first year -they have like 5 kids

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@swoonganz

3 months

One dose of penicillin vs. septic baby. Tough choice for some people it seems.

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@swoonganz

2 months

Floated to my mom the idea that my dad may be autistic and she immediately shot it down. Yeah it’s definitely normal to have 4 flight tracking apps (as someone who flies like 3x per year) and a basement full of documents in binders spanning the last 2.5 decades.

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@swoonganz

5 months

I will give you as much as I reasonably can without arousing suspicion. And if you see me pouring rolls of kerlix into a patient belongings bag, no you don’t.

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@swoonganz

3 months

Routine heart surgery doesn’t exist. Source: former CVICU RN.

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Fitness influencer Joey Swoll revealed that his routine heart surgery turned into a six-hour ordeal, a situation which his doctors had 'never' seen before

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@swoonganz

4 months

@RNewstat She knew. They were pretty upfront about her 5 year survival rate. She knew it wasn’t curable and that the treatments were palliative at that point.

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@swoonganz

2 months

Night shifters, what are we bringing for lunch these days? I don’t really want to eat lasagna at 0200.

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@swoonganz

1 month

The only thing worse than this is if your HCW spouse or partner arrives home wearing OR scrubs and doesn’t work in a procedural area.

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@EliMcCann

1 month

My physician husband just came home, stripped off all of his clothes, and said "I'm going to wash these right now." I'm not asking any questions because I don't want to know.

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@swoonganz

5 months

I am absolutely being pandered to

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@swoonganz

1 year

If you come to visit a patient in the ICU (or any unit) and they are very delirious and restless, a few things Helpful: be a calming presence, hold their hand, tell them they are safe, tell them who you are Unhelpful: repeatedly ask them if they know who you are/remember you

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swoon ganz

@swoonganz

5 months

Quaking in my clogs at the idea of trying to get a 6’8” NBA player out of bed for the first time after transplant as a 5’2” person.

Dawn Pollard

@DawnMPollard

5 months

Not even 12 hours post heart transplant and he is standing! We are all amazed at his progress! Keep it going! ❤️‍🩹🙏🏼💪🏼

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@swoonganz

5 months

Nothing would make me happier than to save the patient some money and this is one of the few ways I can do it.

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3 months

Fun fact, she’s also a nurse!

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@swoonganz

6 months

Don’t tell cardiologists, but I think we do a huge disservice to patients by putting them on a fluid restriction (while admitted) that they won’t follow at home and optimizing their home medications to an unrealistic scenario.

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@swoonganz

1 month

If you see someone wearing this badge reel, run. Run far and run fast.

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@swoonganz

1 month

People who are this violently pro life should be required to attend the resuscitation attempts of a 22 week neonate.

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@swoonganz

1 year

I just learned that in the UK it’s GORD not GERD because their spelling of esophageal is so dramatic (oesophageal).

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@swoonganz

1 year

Today I learned that I am not allowed to send medical leeches via the hospital's pneumatic tube system.

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@swoonganz

5 months

If it’s not attached to the floor, ceiling, or wall and you can lift it unassisted it’s yours. Plus whatever you can carry in a bag.

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@swoonganz

5 months

Hell I’ll even get you an extra pair of hospital pants if you are low on clothes.

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@swoonganz

1 month

Things in the NICU that would send an ICU nurse into a coma: -Many babies have no IV access even when intubated -1.2 Fr. PICCs (and other small sizes) that you can't even give blood through -Once daily BPs -5 Fr. NG tubes -Uncuffed ETTs

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@swoonganz

3 months

1. That’s a person. A person whose gown you left undone with cold goo on their skin. 2. I’m not your maid.

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@swoonganz

1 year

The Board of Nursing should be paying /me/ to renew my license, not the other way around.

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@swoonganz

6 months

Every time nursing merch with scraggly EKG tracings are purchased, a patient dies of polymorphic VT. Do your part. Just say no.

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@swoonganz

5 months

When my pal was sick with COVID, I had access to an incentive spirometer for them. Like I said, I gotchu.

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@swoonganz

4 months

I cannot express just how fulfilled I feel helping to discharge a NICU baby home. Never once have I discharged anyone who had any quality of left. Switching specialties has renewed my excitement for this profession. Making the choice was terrifying, but I feel free.

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@swoonganz

7 months

When a cardiac arrest patient gets cooled and wakes up neuro intact >>>>>>

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@swoonganz

6 months

It’s funny because nursing school teaches nurses how to ask for tests/medications in a way where physicians think it’s their idea.

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@swoonganz

5 months

Ah yes, my annual training refresher that reminds me that medical leeches cannot be sent through our tube system.

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@swoonganz

28 days

A $50/month pet rent in addition to an extra pet deposit is ridiculous. What choice do pet owners even have? It's not like I'm going to get rid of my cat.

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@swoonganz

3 months

To all the nurses considering quitting:

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@swoonganz

3 months

@caseydanielee You need to work at least one more week so we can all see what unhinged gift your employer gets you for nurses week.

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@swoonganz

6 months

A Mormon nurse on TikTok posted a video budgeting her paycheck and mentioned she gives 10% of all her income to the church. Then made a separate video repeating over and over again how this money definitely doesn’t go to the church leaders. Oh honey.

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@swoonganz

1 month

🥺🥺🥺

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@swoonganz

2 months

@aliahdomino Now imagine me taking care of an entire unit like this lmao

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@swoonganz

20 days

Context: if babies are having a painful procedure, one thing we can give them is liquid sucrose with a pacifier. The brand we stock is called Sweet-Ease (1/2)

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@swoonganz

1 month

Adult ICU patients at 0653: 10/10 chest pain, surprise a-fib with RVR, crawling out of bed NICU patients at 06:53: desat to 27%, forget to breathe, barf, diaper blowout up their back

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@swoonganz

2 months

The way the fentanyl fear monger-ers would slip into a coma if they knew how often we have NICU babies on fentanyl drips.

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@swoonganz

1 month

Learning that ankle socks are no longer in and are only worn by old uncool people (millennials). Which is unfortunate because I hate crew socks. Please keep me in your thoughts during this difficult time.

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@swoonganz

3 months

For when you work night shift as a nurse and then go straight to your second job as a UPS delivery driver.

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@swoonganz

3 months

Oh my god please say April Fool’s

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@swoonganz

1 year

I wonder how much ICU delirium we could prevent if we didn't abruptly precipitate psych med withdrawal in critically ill patients.

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@swoonganz

2 months

Almost every single cardiac arrest I’ve cared for that emerged neuro intact had their arrest in a public place with an AED that delivered shocks. It saved their lives.

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@swoonganz

6 months

Codes on every single unit (ICU and ED included) should have debriefs. People shouldn’t be put in a position where they have to ask for this.

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@swoonganz

6 months

I became a nurse when you used the same N-95 for days/weeks and stored it in a paper bag with your name on it.

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@HeyNurseKat

6 months

I am ‘I became a nurse when beds had to be cranked to raise them’ years old

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@swoonganz

3 months

It’s really sad to see how early the anti-APP indoctrination begins (medical school). A PGY-0 is already opining on how the entire NP profession shouldn’t exist.

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@swoonganz

2 months

Divorce is not enough. This man needs to go straight into a wood chipper.

rosey🌹

@thechosenberg

2 months

Bro is psychotic and I would worry for my child if I were her

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poppy 🦋

@imnotpopbase

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Name a more iconic trio than Kim, Kourtney and Khloe.

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@swoonganz

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My biggest achievement is being a CVICU nurse who didn’t apply to CRNA school. We exist 🫡

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@swoonganz

20 days

The first time I ever assisted with a lumbar puncture on a baby having a septic work up, the resident in his most serious voice said: “Nurse, more Sweet-Ease please” and I burst out laughing. And then the baby sharted all over the sterile field. (2/2)

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@swoonganz

3 months

Correction: dosing is variable

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@swoonganz

5 months

If you work at a hospital that scans flushes as meds (outside the NICU), I’m sorry.

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@swoonganz

3 months

At my hospital it is ENT that is notorious for leaving dirty instruments, sharps, and a disheveled patient after bedside procedures.

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@swoonganz

4 months

Working in the NICU has unfortunately given me a front row seat to this particular circle of hell.

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@swoonganz

3 months

Just spent 12 hours taking care of critically ill infants and came back to this having gone viral. Surprisingly few trolls (for which I’m thankful). Vaccines work. Take the antibiotic. Take the vitamin K.

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@swoonganz

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I have some questions for the person who discovered that infants in SVT can convert to NSR if you put ice on their face.

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@swoonganz

5 months

Out of all the ones I’ve worked with, I can tell you who it isn’t: neurology

Michael Justus

@mhjrad

5 months

which medical specialty has the best sense of humor?

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@swoonganz

3 months

If you like the look of a tucked in shirt, you can just,,,tuck the shirt in?

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@swoonganz

3 months

When I said I wanted to wear overalls to work, this is not at all what I had in mind. This is a crime.

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@swoonganz

15 days

I just snaked my bathtub drain and it’s grosser than anything I’ve seen or touched as a nurse.

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@swoonganz

5 months

I would still give them out by the fistful without scanning lmaooo

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@swoonganz

2 months

Well this was a rollercoaster of a tweet.

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@swoonganz

6 months

The scream I scrumpt. Never ever use an NS flush for IV medication dilution of any kind. It is not approved for this use. It is not harmless and it needs to be taken seriously.

Sarah Warren

@shesinscrubs

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fellas is it a good idea to dilute IV pain meds with saline in a medicine cup & drawing it back up in the same flush & then administering to the patient.

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@swoonganz

4 months

Just reflecting on the last 5 weeks at this job and how proud I am of my growth. 5 weeks ago I had never changed a diaper or bottle fed a baby. And now I'm caring for babies on ventilators and CPAP, doing solid assessments and supporting parents/families.

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@swoonganz

2 months

Reminiscing about the time I took ACLS with an anesthesiologist who didn’t know the difference between defibrillation and cardioversion. Recall feeling deeply concerned.

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@swoonganz

1 year

Have you ever had a code brown so bad that you just throw the sheets straight into the biohazard bag instead of into the dirty linen bin? "I just lived through a nightmare so horrific that I must protect EVS from it".

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@swoonganz

4 months

Had a shift where my cardiac surgery patient was about to be extubated. I called the provider to ask if he wanted to be bedside for it. He said yes. I went to go get set up. He arrived and held the patient’s hand the whole time. He could have said no, but he chose to be there.

Empress, student doctor demon

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I received feedback that holding the patient’s hand as they are put under is not in my job description as a medical student intending to apply to surgery and I gotta say, the idea of that being a negative thing about me really sums up a lot of what’s wrong here

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3 months

ICU nurses looking at their patient’s lines after they’re dropped off by OR staff post-op.

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@swoonganz

23 days

Truly confused because at no point would I expect people to put all their food in a loose heap in the fridge instead of shoving the entire bag in.

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@swoonganz

5 months

@aliqu83 @TheRealRhllor Non slip though!

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@swoonganz

6 months

When I was on orientation, I took care of a patient who ended up in the ICU after some serious complications from what was supposed to be an outpatient surgery. They wrote me this note at the end of my shift while intubated. I still have it.

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3 months

Anywayyyyy, so far the residents here know the rules* *don’t you dare unswaddle the baby without permission from the nurse

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