I'm the nurse angel of death (or ICU)

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Specializes in MSN, FNP-BC.

Hahahaha!

I say this because every time I get to chose a patient in clinical, they go to ICU! One was for a GI bleed and the second was for a narcotic overdose. To top it off, if they are not going to ICU then they are at least getting blood transfusions for decreasing h/h levels (one we didn't know where they were bleeding from)!

I had to get this off my chest because I'm coming up in my last week of the med/surg rotation and then I start ob and psych.

My fear is that when I get to OB, I'm going to get all the sad cases and in psych I'll get the worst of the worst. Make any sense?

I'm especially scared about the OB side of things because my husband and I are going to start having children at the begining of next year (I graduate in April....happy birthday me!) and I don't want to see the sad cases in OB. I truly beleive ignorance is bliss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Once I'm done, then you can show me the bad things and I'll be thankful that they (hopefully) never happened to me!

As far as psych goes..............well that's a whole 'nother post. Let's just say that I grew up with a parent with real psych issues and leave it at that.

So does this mean I'm doomed? :uhoh3::uhoh21::confused: My other theory is that I'm either the angel of death or I'm really slated by the guy above to go into ICU which is where my heart is. I really hope it's the latter. :loveya:

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You are not a dark angel ;) but I do believe in fate and a higher power guiding you with circumstances that you are confronted with. As for "ignorance is bliss," your chosen professional pretty much knocks that out of the park anyways-you will be reading about all of the bad stuff before you even conceive. Also if you are like most other mom's-to-be you will not be ignorant because you will read all of the dumb books and watch the stupid shows with nightmare stories and constantly wonder "Is this normal," all the the way through your pregnancy because it is happening to your body, that is natural and normal in our world of "free information."

I had two pregnancies go to term and they were pretty much identical: Hyperemisis starting at 5 weeks, dehydration and severe weight loss up until 24 weeks, High Down's Probability in the Quad Screen, 2-3 rounds of preterm labor starting at 27 weeks, hyperemisis at 30 weeks until delivery, I weighed 176 lbs the Friday before both of my deliveries. The results were very different though. I have a little boy with now a kidney transplant and hearng loss and a perfectly healthy little girl, what I am getting at - no matter what you see or feel or do your outcomes will be totally different.

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OCD,

If you're the angel of death, then I'm Houdini! Every time I am assigned a patient for clinical, they get discharged! *POOF!* :lol2:

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OCD,

If you're the angel of death, then I'm Houdini! Every time I am assigned a patient for clinical, they get discharged! *POOF!* :lol2:

that is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

It doesn't mean you're the 'angel of...' anything. :) What happens to you has happened to pretty much every nurse I know at one point or another. We go through times where it seems like every admit we get has an emergent issue or every preterm patient we get breaks and delivers. (I do work OB :D)

As that song goes, that's the way the world goes 'round. It happens to you now, and next semester it might be someone else. However, this might be the Being Upstairs' way of showing you what things you are best at. Good luck, and hang in there. :)

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Specializes in Acute Care.

Hey, at least you are getting experience dealing with emergencies before you are "the Nurse"!

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