Ronda89

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1. It's not my fault they're brain-damaged

   Ronda89 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I haven't been following the vaxxed thread, I just read the first page of replies and kept sawing "conspiracy theorists" being thrown around, and haven't been back since. I think it's like hitting someone in a car accident and severely injuring them....

2. My thoughts. Literally. Catheter. Psych Pt. ED

   Ronda89 replied to Ronda89's topic in Emergency

   Ok, I just want to clarify a few things... The patient was given a straight cath. Why anyone would assume otherwise confuses me. Nothing in my op insinuated that the patient "left with a cath." So, whatever... The patient was not handcuffed until the...

3. My thoughts. Literally. Catheter. Psych Pt. ED

   Ronda89 replied to Ronda89's topic in Emergency

   I would have still felt just as bad for the patient, for what they were going through, for what had brought them to the ED in the first place. No difference in those regards if they were unattractive. I'm sure I wouldn't have cared to have asked him ...

4. My thoughts. Literally. Catheter. Psych Pt. ED

   Ronda89 replied to Ronda89's topic in Emergency

   Did you do that purposely to distract yourself from your own discomfort of the situation? Because truly, at first blush, I thought your post was about attraction, and had to do with boundaries. I was just writing how I felt, then and still later. ...

5. My thoughts. Literally. Catheter. Psych Pt. ED

   Ronda89 replied to Ronda89's topic in Emergency

   Thanks. Yeah, I didn't think there was anything that incorrect or inappropriate about my actual actions. I didn't mean to sound like a romance novel, I just remember everything so vividly. I had thought I'd felt something from him when he was telling...

6. My thoughts. Literally. Catheter. Psych Pt. ED

   Ronda89 posted a topic in Emergency

   My head is still spinning. Working ED, when a 25 y/o male is referred (by his friends) for suicidal ideation. I walk pt. back after initial screening. Complaints? As pt. elaborates (over-elaborates) My jaw almost drops! Nothing he's done, but what ha...