[jlsRN]

Last night I had a dream where I was taking the blood sugar of a patient, but I didn't write it down or remember it before the darned machine shut off. Then, I tried to retrieve the info from the machine history, but management had totally revamped the programming on the machine, and I couldn't retrieve it, inspite of repeated efforts. Then I proceeded to have a total meltdown in the patient's room, throwing the machine at the wall and using profanity. The only saving grace was that the elderly patient was not particularly with it.

I've also had a recurrent dream where I come to the end of my shift and find out that I didn't realize that there was a patient I was supposed to have, and I never went into their room for the whole shift.

[nightmare]

Calm down dear,it's only a dream!! You're obviously feeling stressed and your dreams are reflecting it.Been there ,done that got the t-shirt! I suspect we all have "Oh my God" dreams where we forget something or can't get to something.Have you ever forgotten to write down the Blood sugars? My carers laugh at me as I sometimes write on my arm just by the left elbow if I'm in a hurry and can't be bothered to fish my notebook out of my pocket.
I know a dream analyst would make a better job of this but just remember it hasn't happened and if you remember the dreams it won't happen.

[jlsRN]

My interpretation of this dream is that I'm fed up and frustrated with all the constant programing changes and new technologies at my facility that no one sends a memo about, nor do they make sure the bugs are out. Also, I'm fed up with management constantly making simple tasks more complicated by reprogramming current (computer) programs, and adding machinery or technologies that nerds invent and no one finds out if they work.

[Dixielee]

I won't say I have frustrating nursing dreams frequently, but I have them often enough to remember them. Typically, I have had patients all shift and suddenly it is the end of the shift and I am frantically trying to re-create vital signs and intake and output for the flow sheets.

One recent one was funny in a wierd sort of way. Now, keep in mind I am 50+ years old, married to the same man, happily, forever and have never considered being unfaithful....so this is my dream. Dream analysis welcome LOL.

I am at work in my current very busy ER....another female nurse and I go with a faceless paramedic to a storage room and have wild passionate sex. We had another nurse watch our patients for us while we were gone (no patient abandonment you know). We came back to the floor all sweaty and disheveled.
The nurse who was watching our patients told us he was thankful we were finally back, because he was having a hard time keeping up with all three assignments! Now that is what I call teamwork!!

[nrsang97]

I frequently have dreams that I have forgotten to check on a pt of a coworker while they are on break. I hear vent alarms, monitor alarms, iv pumps beeping, and call lights. I had a dream one night that I hadn't been in a specific pt room all shift to check on him. The thing is I was never assigned to that pt the whole time he has been on our unit, but I was in helping out in a stat intubation and IICP management. I have dreams about the difficult family members too.

I still have these dreams and I have been a nurse for 6 years now. They are less frequent than when I was first a nurse.

[jlsRN]

Some of those paramedics ARE well proprtioned with nice looking arms and clingy T-shirts.

[Emmanuel Goldstein]

Originally Posted by jlsRN

Some of those paramedics ARE well proprtioned with nice looking arms and clingy T-shirts.

lol

Indeed....

I'm an arm/neck gal (I know... weird. Go figure). Although I admit one of the first things I notice is a guy's veins

[Megsd]

I'm a student and already have these dreams. I'm in OB now and had a dream I was in the nursery with about 10 babies. I assessed each and charted, fed each and charted... and by the time I was done, I started all over. One big circle of assessing, charting, and feeding babies, nonstop, all night.

I also had a dream during my psych rotation that a crazy man attacked me on the street and he was my pt the next day in clinical.

[Dalzac]

Since I had to take a medical retirement from my job, I constantly dream I left the floor to get my dinner and then I can't make it back to my patients something always stop me like taking a wrong turn and getting lost or people stopping me and wanting to talk to me or the unit would close due to low patient load. the place I worked had 2 ICU and sometimes one unit would close And of course the true nightmare ..........I am only wearing one piece of scrubs usually just the bottoms.

[Dixielee]

Originally Posted by Megsd

I'm a student and already have these dreams. I'm in OB now and had a dream I was in the nursery with about 10 babies. I assessed each and charted, fed each and charted... and by the time I was done, I started all over. One big circle of assessing, charting, and feeding babies, nonstop, all night.

LOL, are you sure that was a dream, or were you just working a typical night shift??????????