Full Moon

HappyJaxRN · Nov 20, 2005

Monday night I had just one patient nearly die on my shift. Tuesday night was the kicker. Two bleeding from IV lines/sites (one on heparin),one in acute withdrawal (while drinking golytely, poor man), one code who lived, and a total of three IV lines yanked out altogether that needed restarting, and one guy on fall precautions who slept standing up or in a chair, but not in his bed. He wasn't always dressed.
Next year's wall calendar is gonna have to be one with the moon phases on it so I can feel somewhat forewarned.

:rotfl: You were busy!!!!!!!!!

Annor · Nov 20, 2005

Have you all experienced an increase of strange behaviors from your patients around the time of a full moon? Or an increase of patients in the ER on days of a full moon?? I'm curious if the fable is true.

You bet it is true......100% true.I hated those nights working in the hospital...absolute nightmare shifts.....

ayneday · Nov 20, 2005

yeah its true, I am male nurse who works in a trauma/Surgery/ neurosurgery ICU level one trauma ctr and I have witnessed a correlation. I do not believe in luck nor happenstance but our traumas are more devastating. If our affiliated university has some sporting activity someone is going to flip their car someway or how.

10ACGIRL · Nov 20, 2005

I used to work at a nursing home and if I forgot it was a full moon, all of the "whipped up" dementia residents reminded me............
my friend is a police officer and she told me that cops usually dread full moons because it means a very busy night for them................
as for babies being born on full moon nights, isn't it the same as lots of babies born on stormy nights? something about a change in barometric pressure that causes ROM or contractions?
I know my dog is really restless during the night when the moon is full - she's so restless that my husband doesn't sleep well - me, I sleep like a rock no matter what..............

I wish I could tell you about that one on stormy nights bcuz I don't know the answer.