Have you ever had a healthcare-related dream that left you saying, "what in the actual ****?!" when you awakened?
Last night, I was a dialysis whore. There was an underground "society" of dialysis patients and normal kidney function people. The normal kidney function patients would sell their time and their blood. I was a normal kidney function person, and I had had an AV fistula placed by some "underground" surgeon. "Regulars" would pay $60-80/hour to get dialyzed. Non-regulars would pay $75-125/hour. It was my first night dialysis whoring, and this girl I knew in junior high was walking me through the basic stuff to know and protect myself. And somehow I was able to dialyzed multiple people in one night. My hubs was supportive of it, knowing we needed it. My parents didn't, though.
And I have an extreme disdain for abbreviated words that need not be abbreviated... Gorg, totes, hilari, etc.... All sounds pretty "stup" to me. Basically anything anyone in my generation or younger would say.
And my most extreme hate is the word "goals."
Example:
"Like Farawyn is totes person goals because she's hilari."
But really...I have decided that Farawyn is who I aspire to be
Most of my work related dreams involve realizing toward the end of my shift, that I had a pt I'd forgotten all about.
Last time it was someone who'd been on an insulin gtt, and I didn't see him all noc. This occurred to me as I was eating plums from the tree in my yard. I hadn't given report on him before I went home to eat plums off the tree in my yard.
The cardiac monitor red-alert alarm will sometimes work its way into a dream.
Other than that, it mostly involves craziness outside of work concerning dong this or that with my co-workers. Then I'll go to work next and tell them what they did in my dream and we'll laugh, and laugh.
ummm, don't know if this is along the same lines....i had a really ...REALLY...good dream just last night that i was "with" Dr Preston Burke ...obviously too many Grey's Anatomy reruns... ok, enough about that!
I had a combo dream that incorporated my previous job of waiting tables and my current nursing job: I am waiting tables but all of the customers in my section are patients in gowns with iv pumps and fluids running. They are all sitting at the tables having lovely conversations. I decided to take a break but I fell asleep in the back of the restaurant. When I awoke, I realized it had been 6 hours since I had checked on my customer-patients. To my relief they were all still sitting conversing, and the tech had taken care of them for me...which of course left me wondering, "so do I have to give her ALL my tips??"
I have a reoccuring dream where I am sleeping in a patients bed (without a patient in it) and I wake up (at this point i have my eyes open and looking around my own room but still mostly asleep) and I get bad anxiety and I think "oh no I fell asleep in a patients room if someone sees me I'll be in such big trouble, better stay awake." I'll be sitting up for some period of time before I end up going back to sleep.
Specializes in MCH,NICU,NNsy,Educ,Village Nursing.
1. I'm in a NICU and assigned patients in different rooms. One or two keep me really busy and I forget the third until almost end of shift. No feedings, IV not checked, meds not given. I panic at needing to get everything done at the end of the shift and wonder how I'm going to explain it all.
2. I'm assigned to an adult floor with a "v" shaped hallway. I'm on the wrong side of the "v" (whatever that is), can't find my patients' rooms, or, if I do, I totally forget that they had meds/procedures/ you name it.
Not to cray-cray but I had a dream that I was trying to save one of our (very handsome) surgeons life. There was a tornado and he wouldn't come to the basement. We were at his house of course, and I kept saying "I know you're the doctor but yer gonna die!"
So he finally decides to come with me and we go through this huge maze, when we come out the other side we are on a steam boat. Very odd.
The next day there were some pretty bad storms early in the morning, so when I saw him later in the shift I told him about the dream and he was genuinely mad saying "So in your dream I almost die from a tornado and you can't even call me to warn me when there is a REAL storm!?" Like somehow my dream tornado was a premonition of a real one.
I woke up from a dream about one of my favorite singers, Mary Chapin Carpenter. I was with some friends from work and one of them was Farawyn and we were talking music and I mentioned MCC and Far had no idea who I was talking about and I said "You'd love the song Shut Up And Kiss Me."
Far scoffed and rolled her eyes and said "I only like rap music".
I get a recurring nightmare at times, that I take one of my patients off the floor for whatever procedure and stay there with them for a while. When I come back, it's later in the morning, I haven't done anything for other patients, I am behind and can't catch uo, can't catch up, can't catch up...
Setting changes, e.g. last time my "floor" was in a mall and Pyxis machines were sprinkled between stores and cafes and I had to find them and they weren't working and I couldn't catch up, couldn't catch up...:)
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Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN
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Post 289 says this:
I think I responded with adding "cray cray" . . .