Funny dreams about your job as a nurse

i just had a dream last night. i guess from replying to this thread yesterday.
i was at my house getting ready for work and realized i would be late. i called the charge nurse and let her know. well then my mom (who in all actuality lives in MD, as well as my sister) tells me i have to take my sister to school on my way. my sister is also out of school now, btw. so then i have to call and tell the CN i'm going to be later.
after that a co worker shows up wanting a ride. and then starts helping my sister with some homework she hadn't finished.

but i have weird dreams like this all the time. ridiculous stuff just keeps happening making me later and later for work lol

The day before the superbowl I dreamed that Tom Brady was in bed six of my little ICU, he stood up to go to the bathroom, went into v-tach, fell back on the bed, was a code, and died. Very odd.

ROTFLOL This is soooo funny. I can relate to the sleep talker-walker. Same here.. I am always rushing at a long term facility I once worked at. The bells are going off, residents are crying (along with ME) and I am catching heck for not getting my work done faster. Then I wake up...

I have had more dreams than I can count about work.... and they are always vivid....
...from dreaming that I'm at work and telling a co-worker that I had that night off and wouldn't see her in a couple nights...waking up...having to go to work...meeting her in the elevator before the shift started...and telling her about the dream...
...having a dream that the alzheimers guy in room 213 is your grandpa walking in his walker in the middle of forrest...(who looks nothing like my actual grandfather)
...dreaming of the never ending call lights...
...having a dream that my best friend's daughter is a diabetic...checking her blood sugar...finding that its 92...waking up...and asking..."OMG...is your daughter diabetic because I had the strangest dream...."
...dreaming that I am at a strange facility to have another facility call me to tell me that I don't have to be there until 5 am...then wake up...and am not sure which facility I have to be at....so I have to call my work to find out where I am actually supossed to be...(this has actually happened)
{I work for a staffing company...so I never know which facility I am supposed to be at...}

I have had some really weird dreams since becoming a nurse. Most of them are the really vivid type after a particularly intense shift.
I have woken myself and my fiancee up if it is a true nightmare. I frequently wake up on my days off (I work 3-11pm) after the start of shift, thinking I have overslept for work, and it is only after waking up that I realize I am off that day.
I also have dreams where I have been called to the managers office because I have really screwed up (med error, etc.), and wake up so disoriented that I believe it has actually happened, until I realize I am in my bed.
Just goes to show, we care about our patients, and we are stressed out due to overwork.
Amy

I hear vent and monitor alarms in my sleep. I also hear call lights and IV pumps too. I sometimes wake up after that realize I am at home and go back to sleep. Sometimes I actually get out of bed and then realize I am at home.

I'm glad someone started this thread.

My first week as a nurse I dreamed that my med cart was possessed by the devil and was chasing me around the facility.

I dreamed I had a foley in my bathtub drain. It was patent and draining clear yellow urine. I pulled it out and a quilt that I had as a child was attached to the tip.

I dreamed I was passing meds, I went through all my patients and gave them all a pink pill out of the OTC drawer, at the end of shift I realized the pills were MS Contin.

I dreamed that I got to work and couldn't find my cart. I kept asking our maintance guy where it was and he wouldn't tell me. I was running around in a panic because it was getting late and I was behind in my med pass. I finally found it out by the dumpster but it wouldn't fit in the door to get back into the building. In the dream I said "well, that's it. I can't pass meds so I'm just going to go home."

I have had many dreams where I'm trying to pass meds and I'm so exhausted because I haven't slept in days that I keep falling asleep while I'm putting meds in through a g-tube.

I hope I haven't posted this several times. I'm half asleep right now and keep hitting the wrong buttons.

One of my most vivid: This was a few years ago when I was a brand new med-surg nurse. I dreamed our charge nurse let me know I was getting an admit, and the patient was already in the room. I walked into the room and found writhing in the bed a very large, bright red Chinese dragon, just like the ones on placemats and take-out menus. It had smoke coming out of its nostrils. I turned out of the room and told my charge I couldn't take the assignment. She replied, "now, we don't discriminate here." I answered, "but its a F***ing DRAGON and I have no training for that!" Now, in real life this charge is very knowledgeable and well respected, but kind of uptight. I told her about this dream, and she actually laughed, not her usual delicate giggle but a real guffaw. I had never seen her do that before, and she has always been less uptight with me since.

not funny, but a wake up call....
been pretty run down at work of late, and havent had leave in 14 months( manager keeps giving excuses about training etc, notenoughregular staff in the unit and all that crap, and studying n workign full time etc...... last week i dreamt that one of our patients( a vent dependent Quad) who has been with us for months on end tried to strangle me using IV tubing, but was i panicking that someone is trying to kill me, hell nooo, i was so excited that all i could say was " yes yes finally i go on workers compensation, stress leave, "
needless to say i spoke to the unit manager and explained to her that i really need time off before i lose my mind... got two weeks off coming n am going to Vietnam...