Do I have a sign over my head?

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Specializes in ER/Trauma.

I think I've pushed/hung more Mannitol in the past three shifts than I have in the past three years!

Makes me feel like there's a black cloud over my head with a sign saying "send all traumatic bleeds to this nurse please! He loves 'em!" :uhoh3:

A couple months ago, I had 4 codes in one shift (the first one wasn't even MY patient and wasn't even in the department!) The organ procurement agency person even commented when I called the 4th time that night "You AGAIN?"! :eek:

I know things come and go in waves but seriously, I'd like a break from this bad streak please! Flu season I coming up and I'm not looking forward to being armpit deep in sepsis shift-in-and-out!

cheers,

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Specializes in Med/Surg/Onc, LTAC.

That is really craptastic!:bug eyes:

I would collapse after that shift if I were you... good job for surviving it!

Just think of how much you're learning....? I guess??? :p

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Specializes in Emergency & Trauma/Adult ICU.
A couple months ago, I had 4 codes in one shift (the first one wasn't even MY patient and wasn't even in the department!) The organ procurement agency person even commented when I called the 4th time that night "You AGAIN?"! :eek:

That's great stuff.

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Specializes in Emergency Medicine.

Cool...

For me it's been chest tubes. I haven't had but 1 all year and have had 4 this week. ***** Blown through all our "par" levels in the stock room. Hope we don't have another this weekend. We wouldn't be able to use a water seal drain. We're out. Could only do a flutter-valve with some penrose tubing.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

I was always the poop magnet...add that to the full moon and look out. It would get so bad sometimes that staff would check to see if I was on before signing up for those extra shifts during those "busy times"...welcome to the club....:lol2:. Plus I have always noticed things run in clusters.....I like the organ bank's comment...."You? AaaaaGAIN?" That's funny!!!:lol2:

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Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.

And now" it's the most wonderful time of the year" Slip and fall weather. I bet you just love all of those medically fragile and probably demented LOF's (that's little old FOLKS,people) -you know the ones I mean-they have a dozen co-morbidities and a fractured hip from going out to get the mail in an ice storm.

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...those medically fragile and probably demented LOF's (that's little old FOLKS,people)

What?!?! :D

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

I tend to attract bipolars who are currently manic. I really don't know why they like to gravitate to me but something about me tells them to migrate to my presence. Male, female...doesn't matter.

One shift I had two manics on the same unit who found me, then found each other. That was a memorable night, especially as both of them refused the PRNs that I offered. They weren't dangerous, just really wired. But the conversations that two manics can have, each while in their own world, is fascinating...and very confusing :). They wore me out just trying to keep up with them.

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Specializes in none.
I think I've pushed/hung more Mannitol in the past three shifts than I have in the past three years!

Makes me feel like there's a black cloud over my head with a sign saying "send all traumatic bleeds to this nurse please! He loves 'em!" :uhoh3:

A couple months ago, I had 4 codes in one shift (the first one wasn't even MY patient and wasn't even in the department!) The organ procurement agency person even commented when I called the 4th time that night "You AGAIN?"! :eek:

I know things come and go in waves but seriously, I'd like a break from this bad streak please! Flu season I coming up and I'm not looking forward to being armpit deep in sepsis shift-in-and-out!

cheers,

You are (A) An easy Touch (B) a wiz with Mannitor © a very competent Nurse among the incompetent or (D) Horus The God of Medicine has it in for you.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
You are (A) An easy Touch (B) a wiz with Mannitor © a very competent Nurse among the incompetent or (D) Horus The God of Medicine has it in for you.

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HAHA, thank you ... I needed a belly laugh after the last few shifts I've had, and that hit my funny bone ...

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

Me, I tend to be flypaper for freaks.......they all just seem to gravitate to me and then proceed to tell me their entire life stories. I've called for so many psych consults over the years that I could process the order, fax the H&P and insurance information and do the referral in my sleep. It's almost enough to make me pine for the days when nurses just lined 'em up and went down the hall with a vial of Haldol and a pocketful of syringes!

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Specializes in none.
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HAHA, thank you ... I needed a belly laugh after the last few shifts I've had, and that hit my funny bone ...

that's what I'm here for. Just like Chuckles A little song, a little dance a little stezer down the pants. :jester:

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