I think nursing school is getting to me...

tmiller027 · Oct 28, 2004

I was watching Law & Order tonight, and they were interviewing a big-shot physician. I noticed a cheap little Sprague stethoscope around his neck and couldn't help think that not many physicians would use one of those lol...

akcarmean, LPN · Oct 28, 2004

Well TV is just that TV. Have a good day tomorrow and good luck at school. IT is worth it. Angelia

akcarmean, LPN · Oct 28, 2004

Well TV is just that TV. Have a good day tomorrow and good luck at school. IT is worth it. Angelia

Jo Dirt · Oct 28, 2004

I was watching Law & Order tonight, and they were interviewing a big-shot physician. I noticed a cheap little Sprague stethoscope around his neck and couldn't help think that not many physicians would use one of those lol...

Geez...

Jo Dirt · Oct 28, 2004

I was watching Law & Order tonight, and they were interviewing a big-shot physician. I noticed a cheap little Sprague stethoscope around his neck and couldn't help think that not many physicians would use one of those lol...

Geez...

Tweety, BSN, RN · Oct 28, 2004

I know what you mean. I'll be watching a show and think "that wouldn't really happen." Or "yeah that guys been in a coma, wonder if this blond bimbo is going to clean him up when he poops!". Or "gee he's got great veins". LOL

Tweety, BSN, RN · Oct 28, 2004

I know what you mean. I'll be watching a show and think "that wouldn't really happen." Or "yeah that guys been in a coma, wonder if this blond bimbo is going to clean him up when he poops!". Or "gee he's got great veins". LOL

RN4NICU, LPN, LVN · Oct 28, 2004

Just wait - you won't be able to watch a hospital scene of any kind on TV without wanting to throw you snack at the TV because its so ridiculous. One of the worst ones I see (and they almost all do it) - the patient is at death's door, you can hear the rhythmic whirring of the ventilator (there may or may not be talk about "life support") and you see the patient lying there with a nasal cannula.

Or there is a code - they are defibrillating for about the 100th time (no compressions have been done, there is no IV access and no one is trying to start one, and no one has been bagging the patient) and all of a sudden - like magic - NSR appears on the monitor and the patient wakes up and starts talking to everyone in the room like nothing happened.

:rolleyes:

RN4NICU, LPN, LVN · Oct 28, 2004

Just wait - you won't be able to watch a hospital scene of any kind on TV without wanting to throw you snack at the TV because its so ridiculous. One of the worst ones I see (and they almost all do it) - the patient is at death's door, you can hear the rhythmic whirring of the ventilator (there may or may not be talk about "life support") and you see the patient lying there with a nasal cannula.

Or there is a code - they are defibrillating for about the 100th time (no compressions have been done, there is no IV access and no one is trying to start one, and no one has been bagging the patient) and all of a sudden - like magic - NSR appears on the monitor and the patient wakes up and starts talking to everyone in the room like nothing happened.

:rolleyes:

UM Review RN, ASN, RN · Oct 28, 2004

I especially liked the opening of a Steven Seagal movie in which our hero wakes up from a coma with paraplegia, thwarts a murder attempt from a stretcher (while all around him people are dropping like flies), recruits a nurse to help rescue him (who subsequently abandons her patients, and then later goes back to work without missing a beat), and both successfully escape.

I tell ya, some of these patients are just amazing. :rotfl:

UM Review RN, ASN, RN · Oct 28, 2004

I especially liked the opening of a Steven Seagal movie in which our hero wakes up from a coma with paraplegia, thwarts a murder attempt from a stretcher (while all around him people are dropping like flies), recruits a nurse to help rescue him (who subsequently abandons her patients, and then later goes back to work without missing a beat), and both successfully escape.

I tell ya, some of these patients are just amazing. :rotfl: