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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma, Critical Care.

I must have a sign on my back that says, "always give this girl all the bleeders."

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Hard shift at work?

Do tell :)

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Specializes in ER.

I work in ED and am sure there is an invisible sign on the back of my car that says, "Follow me to the hospital"! They always do!!

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

Do you swear by the moon and the stars in the sky?

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Specializes in Adult ICU.

I swear by the moon and the stars that Psych patients love me. Seems like everytime I walk into the room and they are cussing and throwing things they shut up and start being respectful....... at least to me :)

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Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.

Oh, didn't you know? There are invisible signs being sold on Ebay. It isn't a well promoted product, but the few that I have seen listed for auction were the following:

1. Give ME the new admission promptly at 1830!

2. I love an emergency case at 0200!

3. I live for combative patients!

4. I am trying to hone my time management skills. Give me your highest acuity patients. I challenge you!

5. I am a magnet for catastrophe. Don't fight the force.

6. Since I love full moons, please schedule me for the night shift during each full moon cycle.

7. I don't mind working 60 hours per week. Call me in on my day off. PLEASE!

8. I ((((heart)))) working with difficult people. Team me up!

9. I admire the code cart. I love the code cart. Let me use it.

10. I don't stop for breaks!

Sorry you weren't kept in the loop regarding these invisible signs. Apparently, the ink cures when exposed to UV lighting. Maybe that's why they are shipped wrapped in this weird brown plastic...

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Specializes in ER.

Now that you mention it, I think I have seen those signs in the hospital gift shop:)

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Specializes in ED/ICU/TELEMETRY/LTC.

I swear my sign reads "All crazy family members please, please, come to me with your every complaint."

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Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.
Do you swear by the moon and the stars in the sky?

I'm glad someone else's brain went there as well.

Oh, Scott...you never fail to make me laugh!

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Specializes in ICU, ER, EP,.

Nothing wrong with saying I need a break from that, can I take a heavier or lighter load today instead.:redbeathe

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma, Critical Care.
Nothing wrong with saying I need a break from that, can I take a heavier or lighter load today instead.:redbeathe

We've just been really busy and having to use a lot of registry nurses and floats from med/tele. Those nurses can't take vasoactive gtts or vents. Which results in us getting the heftier assignments.

Everyone laughs at me because they seem me start running around with all these blood request slips.

I average giving on a shift with a bleeder probably around 7 blood products, sometimes in pressure bags. My record is 14 in a shift. I don't get them EVERY shift, but I would say so far in the last two months or so I have had:

A post-hip have a hematoma twice the size of my fist....i believe 8 blood products that night.

A post-shoulder get tPA after a stroke....she was literally bleeding into her shoulder and neck right in front of me...I think 10 blood products that night. (plus CT where she went agonal, intubation, lines, etc)

My young c-section that went DIC/Septic. Hgb went from 12 to 5 in 2 hours. I know we gave 12 blood products in 2 hours, then I think I gave 2 more later.

And then last night. I get a Sepsis/OD/GI Bleed. CT trip with her pressure in the 50s, Intubation, line placement. Her NG isn't working it's clogged, so I place a new OG...I get a LITER of frank blood out in about an hour. Not to mention the dark red liquid stools shes producing every time I move her a bit. GI doc didn't think she was stable enough for surgery with the comorbidities of liver failure/renal failure added to the mix. So my job was to just try to keep her alive til they could re-eval in AM. Only 5 blood products on this one, but my orders did suck a bit, she probably should have had at least 3 more units of blood on my shift.

These are just a few of the more remarkable ones. There's others, but you get the gist.

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I swear my sign reads "All crazy family members please, please, come to me with your every complaint."

AND, the 'twin' sign of "PLEASE, let me know about the COD of EACH family member, neighbor, mechanic, yard guy, vet, dog groomer, horse trainer, etc that you have ever met, known, or heard about in reality or the movies " :uhoh3:

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