I don't have time to pee!

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I have spent the last 2 hours doing my job and hanging drips of medications to save peoples lives. I have spent hours holding hands with patients and talking to their loved ones. I have passed the bathroom 20 times but I have not taken the chance to pee (all of 15 seconds). I have had ridiculous patients ask for ridiculous things and have fetched blankets and water for patients but I have not taken the time to pee. Now I sit in the break room, or the nurses station, or in the hall ******** to my colleges about not being able to pee. I have actually had a real break to eat and drink but yet I will ***** about not being able to pee. I have updated my Facebook and posted another ridiculous "nurses save lives" or "nurses are with you the 95% of the time your doctor isn't" or the "I'm a nurse I don't have time to pee" meme. Now; now you ask me to hang the medication or come to the trauma! I haven't had time to pee!!!

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Specializes in ER, Med/Surg.

Time management; you're doing it wrong.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing, Pediatrics.
Now I sit in the break room

You have time to pee.

I have actually had a real break to eat and drink

You have time to pee.

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Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.

Take the time to pee! Your kidney's will thank you.

A patient can wait for his blanket!

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Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think you guys get this.

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Satire, not for everyone ��

hint: OP is saying, "we all have time to pee if you get off your phone and quit moaning"

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Oncology.

I sense sarcasm:)

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Nice... way to mock nurses who really dont have time to pee. Are you in management?

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
Nice... way to mock nurses who really dont have time to pee. Are you in management?

If you literally don't have time to pee on a regular basis, then you need to work on your time management. If you literally cannot take 45 seconds out of your day to pee, then you have poor prioritization skills.

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Satire, not for everyone ��

hint: OP is saying, "we all have time to pee if you get off your phone and quit moaning"

I'll be honest, (and it's embarrassing): the satire flew straight over my head. It flew so high that I can't even see it anymore.

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Nice... way to mock nurses who really dont have time to pee. Are you in management?

Exactly

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
I have updated my Facebook and posted another ridiculous "nurses save lives" or "nurses are with you the 95% of the time your doctor isn't" or the "I'm a nurse I don't have time to pee" meme.

Yeah, I can't stand the "nurse as martyr" image.

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