Stooopid

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That about sums up my day today. This is a rant post. Please add on if your day was also dumb.

1. 90% of my patients were morbidly obese and smelled of fumunda because they can't reach all their nooks and cranies when they bathe (if they bathe)

2. Gravida 13, Para 6, 7 spontaneous abortions with pelvic pain who left a tampon in her kooka for 2 weeks causing me to skip lunch. The smell is burned into my memory

3. The triage nurse who hates me for some reason.

ourgirls

164 Posts

That about sums up my day today. This is a rant post. Please add on if your day was also dumb.

1. 90% of my patients were morbidly obese and smelled of fumunda because they can't reach all their nooks and cranies when they bathe (if they bathe)

2. Gravida 13, Para 6, 7 spontaneous abortions with pelvic pain who left a tampon in her kooka for 2 weeks causing me to skip lunch. The smell is burned into my memory

3. The triage nurse who hates me for some reason.

For whatever reason you must treat your patients like your love ones and have you forgotten the confidentiality rule that you must not disclose information. Smh...are you sure you are in this field because you love it or for .....

IrishErin

256 Posts

Specializes in ER, Addictions, Geriatrics.
That about sums up my day today. This is a rant post. Please add on if your day was also dumb.

1. 90% of my patients were morbidly obese and smelled of fumunda because they can't reach all their nooks and cranies when they bathe (if they bathe)

2. Gravida 13, Para 6, 7 spontaneous abortions with pelvic pain who left a tampon in her kooka for 2 weeks causing me to skip lunch. The smell is burned into my memory

3. The triage nurse who hates me for some reason.

Ah, the dreaded "forgotten tampon". I shudder when I see one coming in on the tracker.

It's hard to be shiny and happy and caring every day, hopefully your next shift is better :)

Sun0408, ASN, RN

1,761 Posts

Specializes in Trauma Surgical ICU.

LOL but how does #2 happen.. I can't wrap my head around it..

aTOMicTom

213 Posts

...smelled of fumunda...

:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: "fumunda", that's a new one to me, I figured it must be from Latin, couldn't figure it out, so I googled it! thanks for the LOLz :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

Oh and re #3 it sounds like the UNIVERSE was hating you today! ;)

For whatever reason you must treat your patients like your love ones and have you forgotten the confidentiality rule that you must not disclose information. Smh...are you sure you are in this field because you love it or for .....

I don't see any personally identifiable info, but I'm just a student...

LOL but how does #2 happen....

Answer: Ain't nobody got time fo dat!

sharpeimom

2,452 Posts

Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.

smelled of fumunda

I had to Google it too. All I can say is GACCCCCCCKKKK!!!!

Gimme a barf bag...Quick! ... before I hurl!!

Hmm... I wondered what that Gawd awful smell on some of my psych admits was called and this many years later, I finally know:wideyed::barf02::bag:

CodeteamB

473 Posts

Specializes in Emergency.
For whatever reason you must treat your patients like your love ones and have you forgotten the confidentiality rule that you must not disclose information. Smh...are you sure you are in this field because you love it or for .....

There was nothing said about how the patients were treated, and there is no patient information here. Basically OP is describing a typical day in #1 and about 4 peeps I can think of in the last month in my ER alone in #2...

Also, I do not treat my patients like my loved ones. I treat them like my patients. To treat them like my loved ones would be a boundary violation.

Sorry, maybe I'm just cranky from my Stoooopid day which involved

1: 16 cases of man-flu

2: Being pod-mates with Smoke-break McGee

3: The world's whiniest patient... like, for real, I have never in my life met someone who could whine like this

4. The triage nurse who also hates me for some reason.

Specializes in Pain, critical care, administration, med.

Hysterical! You can't make this crap up! Ok I work as a director on a med surg unit.

1. Patient tapes his vertical blinds in his private patient room so no light gets in at all.

2. Overweight patient admitted from the ED gets to the unit at 2am and refuses to get off the stretcher because there is no specialty beds available ... So she signs out AMA.

3. Old patient demands to see the person at the hospital who signed the contract with the local cable network because the TV channel listing they supplied to the hospital for the patients is fraudulent.

When I am sick I am not complaining. This is a hospital not the Hilton or is it Disney land! Thank you CMS for letting patients think they are on vacation!

Specializes in Transgender Medicine.

Hmmmm...let's see

For today, I give you:

-Woman with two $100 bills stuffed in her hooha. This was discovered while doing a catheter. She was unconcerned...

-Elderly woman who grabbed my male manager's butt while he helped me to pull her up in bed (yes, she meant to do it).

-Girl in for STD check who told me the doctor who did her pelvic was hot

-lady who reported 5 month pregnancy, who turned out NOT to be pregnant, and didn't care when she found out.

-Girl in for n/v and abd pain who brought her Taco Bell lunch with her to eat while waiting to see the dr

-Lady who is convinced things are crawling out of her scalp and down her face (nothing there)

- several cases of whiney-man syndrome in which each of these dudes needed a Rx for vagisil to go with their little whiney girl complaints

-Woman who held my hand and thanked me profusely for talking to her husband as if he were still a person while he quietly slipped away from us after a code was halted...

Ha! You didn't see that last one coming, did ya?

Specializes in Emergency.

I got the "oh by the way, i think i lost a tampon" this afternoon. Happy to delegate that upward to the doc.

Ahh, frumunda cheese. The gift that keeps on giving.

My last 2 shifts have featured zebras. Like the kind that make the news, really cool cases. So no details but I kept looking for thw cameras from "life in the er".

You know it's gonna get interesting when the doc says "get an intubation tray, no wait, get a trach tray."

Specializes in ER, TRAUMA, MED-SURG.
Hysterical! You can't make this crap up! Ok I work as a director on a med surg unit.

1. Patient tapes his vertical blinds in his private patient room so no light gets in at all.

2. Overweight patient admitted from the ED gets to the unit at 2am and refuses to get off the stretcher because there is no specialty beds available ... So she signs out AMA.

3. Old patient demands to see the person at the hospital who signed the contract with the local cable network because the TV channel listing they supplied to the hospital for the patients is fraudulent.

When I am sick I am not complaining. This is a hospital not the Hilton or is it Disney land! Thank you CMS for letting patients think they are on vacation!

Bahahaha!! Makes me think and want to say "if that kind of stuff is what's bothering u, are u really sick enough to be in the hospital??"

And no, I would NOT say something like that at any time to any pt, but yes, it would prob cross my mind based on some of the crazy busy shifts we have

I agree with a PP, I would not treat my patient like my family - I don't cross those boundaries.

Anne, RNC

morte, LPN, LVN

7,015 Posts

For whatever reason you must treat your patients like your love ones and have you forgotten the confidentiality rule that you must not disclose information. Smh...are you sure you are in this field because you love it or for .....

it was clearly labeled a rant......it is generally frowned upon to stomp on someone else's rant.

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