What would be YOUR Specific Orders?

[LasVegasRN]

From another post of mine....

"I tell my friends that if I am ever unconscious in the hospital that they BETTER make sure to get the HAIR OFF MY CHIN. Do NOT have me laying there looking like Grizzly Adams. I don't care if they have to smuggle in a razor, wax, Nair, or tweezers - GET IT OFF! I can deal with being in ICU on a vent with hairy legs, but BY GOD GET THE HAIR OFF MY FACE. If I wake up and I have a goatee, I AM KICKING THEIR A$$!!"

Seriously though, if you had to write your own orders in the event you ended up in ICU or the ER, what would you say? What would want or not want?

I'm serious about the chin hair

[LasVegasRN]

Originally posted by OBNURSEHEATHER

It's all about the hair! You guys know how I am about my hair! Don't make me post more pictures!

Heather

:rotfl: :rotfl:

[l.rae]

originally posted by washyahands

a box of krispy kremes and a morphine drip.

linda

heck fire linda...they come in the er with this request all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:roll :roll :roll

[galenight, BSN, RN]

Pluck my eyebrows daily.. I definetly don't want to wake up with the unibrow.. there would be hell to pay!.. ditto on the chin, and well.. you gotta shave the armpit hair once in a while. and as long as i'm being unreasonable.. please paint my toenails.. fingernail too if you have time

[canoehead, BSN, RN]

Unwanted hair is a big one, and I do not want anyone to repeat anything I might say while talking in my sleep. And no wise cracks about snoring or farting either, or I will getcha.

[EricaCCRN]

Teeth brushed, hair fixed, etc etc but I MUST have my armpits shaved, bath & body works bath, and good TV channels (nick at nite, law& order reruns, etc)! Also, can't miss the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News!!!

[Furball]

If I were terminal, my orders would read....

Frozen Margarita's q 2 h prn

Bilat. foot massage lasting 30 minutes q 4 h prn

MSO4 gtt under my control/discretion (self euthanasia, if desired)

SONY playstation for distraction

My dog allowed to visit whenever

Red wine

New Skete kalua cheesecake

books, lotsa books, NY Times

Hot as I can stand bubble baths with scented candles burning

Classical music, acid rock, punk, funk, blues, jazz...everything EXCEPT rap.

My family and friends, around a lot to visit and enjoy all of the above and time alone, to relect, until I flip the MSO4 gtt to high and drift peacefully...away....towards the light....

[fedupnurse]

A list , very short one folks!, of the docs who are allowed on the floor while I am a patient. Then there is the even shorter list of the docs who are actually allowed in my room and to take care of me. I have one from each specialty picked out.

Dog with me at all times.

Big fat bag of MS04 and a gallon jug of Diprivan. Absolutley no paralytics!!!! I don't care how snowed I am.

An alias on the chart and board and my door. Do not want sightsee'ers trapsing thru the room all day long.

CD player and TV/VCR.

An a line and a central line.

No residents. Period, end of discussion!

Those are the main ones. Not too picky, huh????

[RNforLongTime]

I would want a whirlpool bath everyday with Bath and Body Works Bubble Bath!

Unlimited Visiting hours for my family, especially my young nieces as they bring me the ultimate joy as I don't yet have children of my own.

Allowing my beautician mother to fix my hair so I don't end up with bed head and allowing me to shampoo my hair at least qod.

Full body massages at bedtime every night from a Swedish massuer named Sven with the body of a god!

If I were terminal, I'd of course want the morphine drip with the ability to self titrate. And Frozen margarita's if I so desire.

I also want an unlimited supply of Coca-Cola, Sprite and Reeses Peanut Butter Cups!

[ComicRN]

This has really gotten me thinking. I guess if anything were to happen to me now, these are the things I would like.....in no particular order:

1. a room w/ no hospital smells

2. flannel sheets (I get cold easily)

3. a double bed so my husband could come in and snuggle,

spoon and whatever else

4. mystery books on tape

5. my cats and dog to visit me

6. not to hospitalized in June or July (new residents)

7. no nursing shortage

And....if I live long enough to have nothing horrible happen to me and end up in a nursing home with no teeth, I want my chips and dip to be pureed!! And I want pepsi on my lunch and dinner trays. And don't even tell me about a NCS or low salt diet. No siree...don't even go there!!! :chuckle

[LoisJean]

DEMEROL!! IV, ORAL, RECTAL- WHO CARES- JUST GET IT IN AND KEEP IT COMING.........plus, my boom box with every Janis Joplin CD that I own blasting away (and maybe a couple of ZZ Top and some Grateful Dead, and oh yeah, don't forget my Blues Brothers album). Oh, I could be a happy, happy girl.

[dawngloves, BSN, RN]

Originally posted by LasVegasRN

From another post of mine....

"I tell my friends that if I am ever unconscious in the hospital that they BETTER make sure to get the HAIR OFF MY CHIN.

I'm serious about the chin hair

OMG! My sister told me the same thing! :roll :roll :roll

She had a friend in a coma and was mortified for her and had me swear I would bring tweezers to the hospital and pluck her chin should she be in the same predicament.:imbar

She also promised to do it for me.

[KaraLea, LVN]

PLEASE, shave my chin, chest, and abdomen hairs. :imbar

ONLY cute doctors please...and cute male nurses too. :blushkiss

And of course, no machines unless you know that my condition is reversable.

How about those cute male nurses singing me a lullaby every night? :zzzzz