How many of you have had this dream???

P_RN, ADN, RN · Apr 28, 2003

Yes me too. A variation is there is a whole hallway of rooms behind the nurses station that only *I* know about.

(I think that was a plot line in Cherry Ames, Student Nurse....) anyway I am suposed to do something there. Now it's been 29 years since I graduated and 3 years since I've worked. Im just like Disablednurse......never be able to work again....the dream must mean something. Unfulfilled desires?

And I hear the beep of pumps all the time.

susanmary · Apr 28, 2003

How about the dream where you FORGOT you were assigned a patient, and three-quarters through the shift you looked at the patient assignment board and saw your name written on the board.

susanmary · Apr 28, 2003

How about the dream where you FORGOT you were assigned a patient, and three-quarters through the shift you looked at the patient assignment board and saw your name written on the board.

purplemania, BSN, RN · Apr 28, 2003

I worked with a nurse whose patient went 8 hr. without being seen by a nurse because she did not hear her assignment. A living nightmare for all concerned. I will never forget the look of fear in the nurse's eyes. Yes, I have anxiety dreams similar to what have been described.

purplemania, BSN, RN · Apr 28, 2003

I worked with a nurse whose patient went 8 hr. without being seen by a nurse because she did not hear her assignment. A living nightmare for all concerned. I will never forget the look of fear in the nurse's eyes. Yes, I have anxiety dreams similar to what have been described.

silvermoon · Apr 28, 2003

You're all way ahead of me. I had my first nursing exam dream last night. All the questions were ones I hadn't revised for and I couldn't write more than one sentence. And now you're all telling me the dreams don't stop.

When I was training for the check-in desk at the airport I dreamt I had a whole queue of people with windsurfers (my worst check-in item at the time). Perhaps I can just gibe up sleep.

silvermoon · Apr 28, 2003

You're all way ahead of me. I had my first nursing exam dream last night. All the questions were ones I hadn't revised for and I couldn't write more than one sentence. And now you're all telling me the dreams don't stop.

When I was training for the check-in desk at the airport I dreamt I had a whole queue of people with windsurfers (my worst check-in item at the time). Perhaps I can just gibe up sleep.

happystudent, RN · Apr 29, 2003

Originally posted by gwenith
I fond myself out of bed one day after night duty pressing the wall tring to get the "pump" to stop beeping. It was actually a truck across the road reversing going "BEEP BEEP BEEP".:imbar

:roll :roll

happystudent, RN · Apr 29, 2003

Originally posted by gwenith
I fond myself out of bed one day after night duty pressing the wall tring to get the "pump" to stop beeping. It was actually a truck across the road reversing going "BEEP BEEP BEEP".:imbar

:roll :roll

nursbee04 · Apr 29, 2003

I had twelve hour clinicals this semester and one day I had to give meds on my own for the first time (instructor dbl checked every couple of hrs) to five pts. So all day I was a nervous wreck, dbl checking like an obsessive compulsive (which I still do, btw). I went home that night, dreamed about getting the room numbers backwards and woke up out of a sound sleep and said outloud "OMG, Did I give that 1500 piggyback to the wrong pt??!!!" Was actually sweating and panicky, threw my covers off and went to look for the MAR /c tears in my eyes. You never saw a more relieved nsg student when I realized that (THANK GOD) it was just a dream. :eek:

nursbee04 · Apr 29, 2003

I had twelve hour clinicals this semester and one day I had to give meds on my own for the first time (instructor dbl checked every couple of hrs) to five pts. So all day I was a nervous wreck, dbl checking like an obsessive compulsive (which I still do, btw). I went home that night, dreamed about getting the room numbers backwards and woke up out of a sound sleep and said outloud "OMG, Did I give that 1500 piggyback to the wrong pt??!!!" Was actually sweating and panicky, threw my covers off and went to look for the MAR /c tears in my eyes. You never saw a more relieved nsg student when I realized that (THANK GOD) it was just a dream. :eek:

Zee_RN, BSN, RN · Apr 29, 2003

They're called "nurse-mares." I believe there's another thread on this board somewhere where many people have posted their recurrent "nurse-mares."

Yes, I have had "nurse-mares." Usually it involves charting or meds. Something like I'm on my way home from work or finally at home and realize I didn't chart A WORD on any of my patients. Or didn't pass a single med. These dreams happened more when I was on med-surg than in ICU. When I started in med-surg I had a minimum of 9 patients and maximum of 18 if it were 3-11 or 11-7.

However, just yesterday morning as I lay sleeping, dreaming about work (just regular dreaming thinking I was at work), my alarm clock went off...I reached over and picked up and tilted it backwards and then set it back down. Know what I was doing? I was emptying the urometer on a foley!! I "dumped" my alarm clock, lol! Took me a second to realize what I did. Then I shut the alarm off, lol. Did I think the "foley" was alarming?! God knows everything else does!

Does anyone else get the little surge of adrenaline when they're at the grocery store and the PA system kicks on....the brief second before they actually say "price check" or whatever...like they're gonna annouce a code?! Happens to me every time.