Nurses General Nursing
Published Dec 6, 2017
DesiDani
742 Posts
Good or bad. About the field in general, humanity, or society? How does that truth effect you and how you do your job?
Flatline, BSN, RN
375 Posts
Hard truth? It is far too easy to "fall down" and get foreign objects stuck in your rectum, or so I am told.
Purple_roses
1,763 Posts
If a patient is on a bariatric bed and isn't ambulatory, there will be a wound beneath that panis. And it will be fungal.
RNperdiem, RN
4,592 Posts
I used to watch shows showing trauma care and emergencies. As a spectator, it is entertaining to watch. Actually being the nurse there is different.
When you carry the burden of real responsibility, that burden is a heavy one.
AJJKRN
1,224 Posts
That HCAHPS may just end my bedside career...but I hope not!
Wuzzie
5,124 Posts
I'm not overly fond of humans.
NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN
1,599 Posts
Same here. They are the devil. An exorcism must be on backorder (just like our IV Ativan).
That life is sometimes not fair. That sometimes bad things happen to good people. I was 23 when I had to take care of a former coworker who had dated my best friend in nursing school. He had a chronic condition that he was born with. He suffered. He also died at 25. He was a CMO and my patient. I learned life is too short to worry about the small stuff. I also work an hour away from home with hopes of never knowing my patients outside of work.
serenitylove14
407 Posts
1. Burnout can happen in less time then you think.
2. Nurses take out their personal problems on patients and coworkers.
3. Sometimes high pay = high stress and the job just isnt worth a poor mental health.
4. Family members abuse disable family members in many different ways.
KatieMI, BSN, MSN, RN
1 Article; 2,675 Posts
1). **** happens.
2). Life IS NOT fair, and not gonna be.
3). There are things you can't buy, can't win and can't afford to lose. And sometimes you got only one chance to choose between them.
Death affects you differently, even death of loved ones.
Pepper The Cat, BSN, RN
1,783 Posts
Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, your pt will die.
Life is not fair.
The admission will always be the opposite sex of your only empty bed.
Menopause sucks.