Everyone LOVES a "feel-good" moment!

Nurses have ups and downs during their shifts, many times feeling the downs outweigh the ups. Isn't it great to be recognized for our successes - no matter how small?

Share your feel good (or bad) moments...

[Davey Do]

15 hours ago, Joe V said:

Share your feel good (or bad) moments...

 

 

[JBMmom, MSN, NP]

I had a patient a few times over the past couple years who was a TBI patient who would get VERY sick with aspiration pneumonia. When he was well he had a wicked sense of humor and a smile that would light up a room. When I was his nurse in April, as I always did, I told him my goal for night was to get him comfortable enough to sleep a while and hopefully to smile or laugh just once. Well, this last night I didn't think it was going to happen- it's not as if I spend the night forcing corny jokes or fake situations. He wasn't comfortable and was getting frustrated with the whole prolonged hospitalization. In the morning I was talking with him and the oncoming nurse at bedside and for the life of me I can't remember what I said, but he broke out in a smile and a laugh that just about burst my heart. Even the nurse I handed off to said it made her happier to start the shift. I told him that smile made my day. He gave me a thumbs up and I told him to have a good day. He shook my hand, looked me in the eye, and that was the last time I saw him, he died a few days later. I think of his smile and laugh sometimes and hope he's at peace. 

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

I just finished orienting a new grad RN for 12 weeks.  She was on her own was nervous about giving report to a very particularly night nurse that grills you about everything.  She gave her report and he said "wow, you gave such a great report, who oriented you?".  

🙂

[Nurse Beth, MSN]

This happened to a colleague of mine.

She was assisting a foreign trained doctor who spoke with a heavy accent to place a femoral line on an obese male. He kept yelling at her to "Hold up the penis !!"

Which she did.

But he meant pannus.

[Nurse Beth, MSN]

A sweet elderly patient of mine softly patted the hand of her young, male doctor.

"My, my," she said, smiling sweetly up at him. "You are going to make such a good nurse someday."

[Nurse10150]

Good read !