Crazy dreams about nursing

[Wen83]

So it's the first day of spring break and the last thing I wanted to do was think about nursing. It's my break and I want to relax and de-stress. This morning I woke up in a cold sweat after having a nightmare. In my dream I went to visit an old friend who was working at a school. It was nap time and I was helping my friend get the kids all settled. My friend and I then walk outside and notice some kid riding his bike up a tree We yelled for him not to do it, but he didn't listen and continued riding until he lost his balance and came tumbling down the tree. I turned my head because I could watch him fall. When he had landed, we ran to him, but his body wasn't there. We frantically looked around for him :uhoh21: when we finally found him, he was still alive. We had just gone over trauma injuries in class, so there I am trying to do a neuro assessment on him. I'm checking his pupils and his grips. I notice his back was arched and he had a third arm growing out of his back All of a sudden I was back in the school and I heard a scream. All these people in lab coats and suits came running out. Apparently one of the little girls that was taking a nap had her ostomy bag ripped off and she was no where to be found. I wanted to help, but I didn't know what to do I finally woke up... it's still bothering me so I thought I'd share it with others. So much for relaxing, I've been feeling tense ever since I had the dream.

[pricklypear]

:rotfl::rotfl:

That is one crazy dream! I expecially like the "third arm" part!! I must say, it surpasses any that I've had, and I've had some funny ones. The one that sticks out the most happened the first year I was a nurse. The night before, I had had a terrible shift involving blood transfusions- just felt overwhelmed the whole 12 hours. I went to bed for a nice, relaxing sleep, and this is what happened:

I'm at one of my kids baseball games, sitting in the front row of the stands. I notice all the kids are sitting around me, and the coaches and parents are yelling at me "Will you hurry up!!! We only have the field for an hour and a half!! Jeeeze." At my feet is a huge cardboard box full of blood bags, tubing, and IV catheters. It dawns on me that I'm supposed to give each kid 2 units of packed cells before the game. I realize that nobody has IV access, so I start putting in IVs. The coaches are still yelling, and the parents are saying "I can't believe this, what's taking so long?" Then I realize that nobody is typed and crossed, but the coach says "Jeeze, what IS the big deal? Just DO IT!" But I don't have a 2nd RN to check the blood, so I go up to the announcer and ask if he can ask the crowd if there's another nurse. Everybody's getting really riled up, because I'm wasting all the playing time.... then I woke up.

It was awful.

[Beary-nice]

i read this thread and it reminds me of the dream i had a while back...

like many dreams, i am at work in m/s and have like 15 patients to take care of and my meds are all hours late and i can't get anything done and it's like i'm the only one there working. anyway, in this particular dream, our call light system had not only an intercom to the room but a tv screen as well...you could see the pt. well, one call light kept going off repeatedly and i said to someone..."shouldn't we get that?" and they were like "no. he'll just have to wait." well the light kept going off and i said "i can't have this, i have to answer it." so i turn the knob at the "tv" at the station and see howdie doodie in a hospital bed pressing like mad on his call light pendant! someone came up beside me and said..."oh it's just howdie, he is a pain in the a**! " what is really interesting is that i didn't even grow up in the howdie era. i know who he is though....and there he was red hair, goofy teeth and all buzzing his call bell! :rotfl:

go figure!

beary

[nicolentony]

I have a recurring dream that I get report on 2 patients in the ICU and at 5 am (I work 11-7) I realize I was supposed to take care of a 3rd patient. They haven't been turned, given meds or anything in 6 hours. AGGGGHHHHHHH!:uhoh21:

[dorimar, BSN, RN]

yeah... the dream about your extra patient you didn't know you had untill 3/4 of the shift is over. All the time for me.

Doris

[Antikigirl, ASN, RN]

This is a great thread! I have wierd nursing dreams almost nightly...I have gotten use to them, but occasionally I get a nightmare and it effects me for a day or two!

Mostly my nightmares involve children, which I don't work with but once in a blue moon. It always involves me not being able to reach them to help..either by frozen water, EMS stopping me for scene safety, I break a leg...just about anything! Always ends with them going off to get help, and me never knowing what happened.

I know it must be something about me feeling helpless with children in trauma (reason I do not work with kids...I am a cry baby wreck with infants and children and I accept that as a valid limitation).

I too have had the 'missed patient' dreams...lots of those! Forgetting my scrubs and wearing street clothes dreams. Being in a code and forgetting everything I know dream. Being back at a former employers facility dream. Being hours late for shift dream.

And the old patient beating the heck out of me dreams (or screaming at me)...I get that intermixed with other dreams as well (ahhhhhhh a nice sunny beach resting sipping fruity drinks on the shore...wait a min..why is this person in a hospital gown hitting me on the beach and complaining they had to wait 15 minutes to use the BSC, and they want pain meds???" LOL!!!!!!!).

[Faeriewand, ASN, RN]

Not a nursing dream but when I graduated from beauty school the next night I dreamt that I was standing out in front of the school and the insructor, whom I disliked, stuck her head out the door and said my last name "______ get back in here. You still have work to do."