Challenge: 25 Words or Less

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I like a challenge as much as the rest of you. Here's the challenge:

Describe your last workday in 25 words or less. We'll guess the rest. ;)

I can describe it in two words. Hornet's nest!!!

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Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.
Describe your last workday in 25 words or less. We'll guess the rest. ;)

Fresh fempop bypass, fresh epidural with TKR, bleeding, gave PRBC's, epidural not working, PCA MS worked, fresh epidural, thoracotomy, 2 chest tubes, whew, it's 1900 !

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called to duty 2:30am, dying pt. force-fed by family. pt impacted, vomiting. disimpacted, comp supp, more meds-comfortable. lectured relatives, drove them home w/food.

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PACU yesterday. Temporary community problem with water supply secondary to heavy rains. Powers panicking. Cases cancelled. Staff waiting around $$$$ :angryfire :rotfl: Things fixed. Reschedule:crying2:

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Specializes in School Nursing.

Got in early, people already complaining, teachers are a pain in butt, phone ringing, kids crying, bloody noses, vomiting as they come off the buses, fevers, parents griping, got no lunch, have to pee, just can't get there....hey this is why I earn the big bucks ! hehe

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Specializes in NICU.

Clinical day...postpartum unit...mom and baby are great...my instructor hates me...such is life...

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headache, flu, cough, vomiting. MI. rash, fever, fever, drunk. amennorhea. vomiting, headache, laceration, cough. leave triage. report. restrain. give work note. can't be pregnant! sigh.

:)

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho.

New day, no poop,supp, poop, poop, no poop, hip fx, no food, puke, no poop, puke. That sums up my patients today, recount, yep all 10 accounted for. Must be a GI special this week.

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Specializes in rehab, antepartum, med-surg, cardiac.

Hmm---tube feed, turn, suction, suction, lift, poop, poop again, cath, pain med, post op, empty drain, cath, cath again, cannot find meatus to cath! Sorry, I'm over! A small portion of my first 4 hours!

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

Get report, get consent, call doc about INR, give meds, change dressing, doctor badmouthed night nurses to patient, what an ***. Take two more patients at 2300. Pt fell down her stairs! Do some charting.

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Specializes in ER.

0330 ER, all rooms full, triage full, 20 in the rack, never ending stream of patients, 4 ICU, 8 med holds, no relief in sight.............

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Specializes in RN, BSN, CHDN.

:o phone phone phone, problems problems problems, poop poop poop,

no staff no staff no staff, home home home, drink drink drink lol :balloons:

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