Getting Sick at Work

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How many nurses have gotten sick at work and have had to go to the ER? I had a crazy experience last night and ended up in my hospitals ER for TIA-like symptoms. All my tests came back negative thank goodness, plus I am not even in my thirties yet and have no risk factors for a TIA, so the MD isn't really sure what was going on with me. Just wondering if anyone else has been in the middle of their shift and ended up in the ER......

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Specializes in Peds Hem, Onc, Med/Surg.

Yup! I had pericarditis last year. horrible, horrible experience. I was 22 at the time and thought I was going to die. For a little while I thought my manager thought I was joking.

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Specializes in Trauma/Critical Care.

A few years ago, I had a severe allergy reaction to a new make up product. My eyes and face were very swollen (could barely open my eyes), as the night progressed, it kept getting worse. Unfortunately, that night was a full moon in the ICU, with traumas coming left and right...I had the only open bed. Called the House supervisor to let him know I needed to leave, his response: "It doesn't look so bad....walk it off" :nuke:

Thankfully, my charge nurse and my fellow nurses stood by me and I was able leave to the ER.:hug:

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Specializes in Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes.

Not as a nurse, but I did end up in the ER after an allergic reaction to what I ate during my brake. It was not really how I wanted to spend my New Year's Eve lol

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Specializes in ICU, Home Health, Camp, Travel, L&D.

Twice:

SVT and unable to vagal myself down.

Migraine with TIA symptoms.

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Specializes in Emergency Medicine.

I usually wind up in the ER after all of my shifts...

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Specializes in Pediatric Emergency Medicine/Trauma.

Oh yes! Bad asthmatic and I've landed myself in a trauma bay now and then - - always kinda weird when it's your own ER. Last time I was the trauma nurse too - that got interesting....

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Once but I was OK after I got home and rested.

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Specializes in Pediatric/Adolescent, Med-Surg.

I never have. I do remember a nurse at one hospital I worked at that started having the one sided weakness, etc during her shift. When to the ER and found out this 20-something year old was having a stroke. She asked to be admitted to her home unit.

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Specializes in LTC, Wound Care.

I was passing a kidney stone, and my DON drove me to the hospital herself!

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

I had to call my DON to come replace me at 1AM (she wasn't happy!!), my gall-bladder blew and I had to go in for surgery. At first she thought I was joking, but after the surgery I had to let her know I would be out of work for 3 weeks, she figured I wasn't.

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Oh yes, fell in a wet floor. leople probably thought it wasn't anything big, but besides a knot on my head and a sore back, I had a very rare post traumatic cataract form immediately. If you hit your head that hard, not a good situation!

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