fey_lassRN

fey_lassRN has 10 years experience and specializes in L&D, NICU, High Risk Maternity.

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1. Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

   fey_lassRN replied to nilepoc's topic in Humor

   Resident orders are usually good for a laugh or a "holy crap". We got one the other day for a patient in preterm labor who was on the obstetrics unit: "Transfer to L&D. Mag and steroids." Yes, we know he meant a 4gm IV bolus of magnesium sulfa...

2. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   fey_lassRN replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   Well, most of the L&Ds I've worked in will only hire those with some experience, and they count preceptorships and internships towards that. And nurses, even young nurses, should have a choice. I'm a great L&D nurse, but I'd make a horrible...

3. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   fey_lassRN replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   I worked with a nurse who was stuck in one of the hospitals in NO. She didn't really talk about it, and no one asked much because we knew how hard it had been on her. She did say something about having nightmares sometimes. Now she's left us and g...

4. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   fey_lassRN replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   There have been so many times that all of us in L&D have decided we needed either vet gloves for pulling calves or a full body latex dip.

5. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   fey_lassRN replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   It is possible. It usually works best if you precept in the specialty unit. I have never worked a day in med surg, and I'll go apply at Target before I do. I precepted in L&D, and then was hired in that unit. I've also worked NICU, and I've s...

6. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   fey_lassRN replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   OMG, I thought I was the only one with that story! I, too, worked in a small rural hospital. No enema, but Hemobate will induce forceful pooping. We did that woman a favor, no telling how long those squiggly worms were in her colon. Despite the h...

7. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   fey_lassRN replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   Many times in report in Labor & Delivery the term "funky monkey" comes up.

8. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   fey_lassRN replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   I had a patient in labor one night who was huge. She was going to be a repeat c-section, and was very ill with some preexisting medical conditions. They finally made the call to go to surgery and I had the job of prepping her. Even if we are going...

9. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   fey_lassRN replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   I've seen it in a fetal demise of around 20 weeks, but I've never seen it in a live birth.

10. Funny intern stories

    fey_lassRN replied to fey_lassRN's topic in Humor

    Gotcha. I didn't use the real nurse's name or the real doc's initials.

11. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    fey_lassRN replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Humor

    That is too funny! We use the large bucket enemas for our inductions, and explaining it to the teen moms is always funny.

12. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    fey_lassRN replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Humor

    I'm also OB, and I love the tats!

13. Funny intern stories

    fey_lassRN posted a topic in Humor

    What's your best intern/resident story? I work L&D, and our hospital hosts a family practice residency. Most of them don't care for L&D at all, and do as little as possible in our unit. It would be nice if they would study a bit before they...

14. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    fey_lassRN replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

    I worked L&D in a poor, rural area where basics like running water and electricity could not be taken for granted. We had a patient with postpartum hemorrhage, and she got a dose of Hemobate. Diarrhea resulted, as it often does with this med, a...

15. hand tremor - how to control?

    fey_lassRN replied to adventuregirl's topic in General Students

    No medical advice, just wanted to say that you can work with tremor. I got dx'ed with essential tremor in nursing school, and you learn to work around it.