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!!!

Specializes in Med Surg, PCU, Travel.

Tell your CNA you really need help with those blankets or else you will pee all over the floor...or if you desperate use the bedside commode while holding that patient"s hand....there is always freakin time to pee!

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

If you have time to sit around complaining, eating, updating FB and various other sundry things--- you have time to pee.

I caught the satire and love it!! I am no martyr and really dislike those who are nurse martyrs.

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If you have time to sit around complaining, eating, updating FB and various other sundry things--- you have time to pee.

I caught the satire and love it!! I am no martyr and really dislike those who are nurse martyrs.

Haha I think most people missed the sarcasm. Though of it when I was at work and a few of us were sitting around eating lunch. Probably 15 minutes of silence went by until my coworker read out an email and exclaimed "how am I supposed to do this when I don't have time to even pee." I had to bite my tongue wondering what they heck they were doing for the past 15 minutes. I cannot stand the nurse martyr thought process.

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Specializes in Oncology.
Satire, not for everyone ��

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

Read it a second time. There it is! Better sentence structure and using words that wouldn't get ****'d out would have made the sarcasm shine brighter.

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

Well.....his call-sign IS "boss man".

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Read it a second time. There it is! Better sentence structure and using words that wouldn't get ****'d out would have made the sarcasm shine brighter.

No, no, no.

It was perfect! The **** made it sublime!

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I've never understood this badge of honor re: how badly you can abuse your kidneys and bladder. I have a friend who is a pharmacist... she had a wake up call when a coworker ended up in the ICU from the "can't drink, can't pee" working conditions they endure.

Unless a patient is tanking, potty breaks are non-negotiable. If I have to pee, I bloody go pee, take a deep breath, and jump back into the work. I've struggled with efficiency and time management... still no excuse to abuse your body, and no reason to brag about how much you suffer for it.

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Co-workers and I had joked about wanting a catheter so that we wouldn't have to find time to pee. Then it's really awkward when emptying 8 or so patients catheters at the end of a 12 hour shift with your legs crossed and trying to keep a straight face. Learned during my first 6 months as a nurse to just go ahead and pee. There isn't much that cannot wait a minute for us to void and wash our hands! And yes, if someone has time to eat, drink, or play on their phone then there is definitely time to pee and I don't want to hear any moaning about it-hierarchy of needs applies to prioritizing our own lives as well.

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Meh. I'm at work and I peeing right now.

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Just go to the bathroom when you have to go.

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.

Hehe I was reading, thiiiinking it was satire, but not 100% sure. Glad I was right! ;)

However I liked some of those contradictory comments for truth. Hand holding, meds, phone calls, call lights, docs...everything short of chest compressions/defib/ACLS drugs can wait for a BR break. (And since codes aren't run solo.....)

Recently I had a pt who went from team wanted to extubate, to ARDS in the span of 30 min. SpO2 of 55% on her minimal settings, to paralyzed and om Flolan, with 100% FiO2 and 20 of PEEP -- very very bad pulmonary status.

Guess what? My charge nurse was in there, along with the RN next door, the RRT, and three MDs. I said to my charge: "I'm going to run to the BR quick -- can you hang this med for me?"

As for phone calls, call lights, MD asking for help, CNA asking for help, PT asking for help, all of that stuff: you don't go as if you have a gun to your head. If you have a full bladder, say you will be there in 2 minutes.

And then go to the bathroom.

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Meh. I'm at work and I peeing right now.

Hopefully not at a work computer.

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