Day 2: 2016 Nurses Week Fill In The Blank Contest

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As a nurse, some fears are unavoidable - especially when a patient pushes their call button. Your challenge for today's contest is to fill in the blank. Check out the image and with your comment below, you'll be entered to win a $250 Amazon Gift Card! Winner will be announced May 13, 2016

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Specializes in Pediatrics and Women's Health.

Feces from head to toe, on the bed, and all over the floor.

an obstructed foley...

Patient is requesting a can of Coke and 2 family members are in the room watching television

Specializes in Hospice.

...the foley leaked all over the floor.

Specializes in PMHNP-BC.

two people in the patients bed, with the patients heart rate at 140 !

Specializes in PICU.

I hope I don't find A SPIDER! I'd rather it be a messy bed I had to change than a big, hairy bug they want me to kill!

That they pulled their IV out by accident

a different patient in the bed.

That the IV I had just placed in his thumb has also "fallen out" because this poor man has no more veins left!

When a patient uses their call bell I hope I don't find their wound vac beeping and the black foam and transparent dressing pulled half off of the gaping abdominal wound. After asking the patient what happened she said, "It itched, so I scratched it."

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