OMG...I LOVE the family pack/etc...that cracks me up! I just roll my eyes when 2 or 3 from the family come in! ESP when it is all different complaints...like yeah, my son has this so I thought I'd get checked out for that...too funny
In response to the pathetic suicide attempts and wanting to write a book... we could name it "Suicide For Dummies" Or "Suicide 101... Getting it right the first Time!"
Fluorescent Light Therapy- for those pt's who call the ambulance to pick them up for something stupid and who swear they absolutely cannot find a ride home, hoping that the hospital will come off with a FREE taxi voucher.
Well, our hospital is very stingy with the taxi vouchers and rightly so...imagine!! So, we discharge them and send them to the waiting room for a little "fluorescent light therapy." It's amazing how effective that is for pt's...after a while they all seem to be able to find a ride home.
Patients from the RV Factories who get caught between RV's usually have APM's (Acute Pinch Marks).
And to the Student who didn't like our responses about death... sometimes when you (the RN) put everything into saving someone who did have a chance, and you lose them, you laugh to keep from crying. If you can't handle it, stay on the floor.
In response to the pathetic suicide attempts and wanting to write a book... we could name it "Suicide For Dummies" Or "Suicide 101... Getting it right the first Time!"
I like to add to the manual, don't waste your time on tylenol, aspirin, or narcotics......Use the digoxin, cardizem or lopressor....all of it!!!!
Patients from the RV Factories who get caught between RV's usually have APM's (Acute Pinch Marks).
And to the Student who didn't like our responses about death... sometimes when you (the RN) put everything into saving someone who did have a chance, and you lose them, you laugh to keep from crying. If you can't handle it, stay on the floor.
Yep can see your point, I had someone very close to me die in the ER when I responded to those acronyms on death. I still wouldnt use them as I still view them as inappropriate but that might all change once im out there I just couldnt understand at that time because I would have been heartbroken if I had of heard a nurse say that about my loved one.
Specializes in ER/SICU/Med-Surg/Ortho/Trauma/Flight.
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fobsobss-fat old ba$ta&r# short of breath shoveling snow- used for our old guys that come in the winter complaning about chest pain and shortness of breath after shoveling snow 1 + hour 50 or over.
KristyEDrn
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OMG...I LOVE the family pack/etc...that cracks me up! I just roll my eyes when 2 or 3 from the family come in! ESP when it is all different complaints...like yeah, my son has this so I thought I'd get checked out for that...too funny