herecomestrouble

herecomestrouble

geriatrics,med/surg,vents

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About herecomestrouble

herecomestrouble has 25 years experience and specializes in geriatrics,med/surg,vents.


60 years old,3kids,4 grands

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  1. Please help my failing memory

    The other day I overheard someone talking and she was saying that when she laid down in bed her B/P would go up real high, when she stood or sat it would go down again. It reminded me of a patient I had years ago who had a disease that did that. We h...
  2. Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    I once had a pt with a J tube that was always clogged on me, usually resulting in a spray of water. One evening I went in to give him meds and he and his son both opened up those little cocktail umbrellas to " keep themselves dry".
  3. Funny Things Patients Say

    I'd need a lake full of whiskey too if I had to live in a LTC facility.
  4. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Not a nursing but a patient story, I had been in the hospital 5 months 3 months in ICU, when my Dad died. After I got out I was at my parent's house sitting in the living room all alone when I saw my Dad standing in front of me. I remember thinking i...
  5. Funny Things Patients Say

    I was helping another nurse pull a pt. up in bed. We must have had our Wheaties that morning because we bumped her head against the headboard, we both looked at each other feeling awful and the pt. said "go check the door, I just heard somebody knock...
  6. What constitutes "professional appearance" these days?

    that site was awful,a fount of lies and half truths,I especially got upset with this pearl of wisdom " And not only that, many of the customers receiving a tattoo are drug-users, criminals, rock artists, deviants and homosexuals who just happen to ...
  7. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    not ghosts at work but my oldest son was taking a picture of his girlfriend and her daughter and on the first pic there was a funny mark right next to them so he took another shot,same mark only bigger this time.He tried again and got the same mark b...
  8. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Probably a Photoshop picture, but still cool. What was it? I couldn't make it out,damn old eyes LOL
  9. Post-exposure prophylaxis making me so sick!

    I'm HIV+ and have been taking Kaletra for years now.It's notorious for causing diarrhea.Most important,avoid all caffeine,coffee,tea,soda even chocolate.Try some immodium if it's OK with your Dr.I just add it to my med regimen,every other day I take ...
  10. pt pass out after IM ceftriaxone inj

    My Dad and both brothers will do the same thing at the sight of blood.My older brother will manage to keep it together until he gets the person to the hospital ER if he has to but then...I swear you can see the little stars circling around his head j...
  11. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Not "going away",it was a coming home party
  12. New Grad in ER with unsafe practice - Advice please?

    There are 10-15 hospitals withing a 25 mile radius of me,and no matter which one you mention somebody has a story about what a horrible place it is,how the Dr's and nurses don't have a clue what they're doing and the place should be/is going to be sh...
  13. Never seen anything quite like it (the things visitors do...)

    This wasn't actually the visitor but the nursing staff who did this one.We had a pt who had a stroke,she was starting to come around and we were trying to get her to remember our names and the names of her visitors.One day I was in her room with a CN...
  14. Never seen anything quite like it (the things visitors do...)

    Where to start,one time we had a Dr overhead page"will the family of the pt in room 123 bed A come to the room IMMEDIATELY".She had walked in the room to check her pt and found her asleep with an infant in her arms almost dropping the baby on the flo...
  15. You Know You're a Nurse When...

    while doing some house hold repairs I needed some WD40,sent my son to the hardware store around the corner to pick it up for me,even wrote it down on a note for him.He came back and said "the man doesn't have it and doesn't know what it is"Looked at ...