Nurses General Nursing
Published Jan 25, 2005
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.
Dixiecup
659 Posts
I can describe it in two words. Hornet's nest!!!
DutchgirlRN, ASN, RN
3,932 Posts
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 !
leslie :-D
11,191 Posts
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.
azmimi
24 Posts
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:
Keepstanding, ASN, RN
1,600 Posts
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
Love4Me, RN
134 Posts
Clinical day...postpartum unit...mom and baby are great...my instructor hates me...such is life...
gotaluvtheER
20 Posts
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.
:)
meownsmile, BSN, RN
2,532 Posts
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.
weesyanne
81 Posts
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!
NurseCard, ADN
2,847 Posts
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.
Dixielee, BSN, RN
1,222 Posts
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.............
madwife2002, BSN, RN
26 Articles; 4,777 Posts
phone phone phone, problems problems problems, poop poop poop,
no staff no staff no staff, home home home, drink drink drink lol :balloons: