Nursing Dreams (or Nightmares)

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Last night I had a dream where I was taking the blood sugar of a patient, but I didn't write it down or remember it before the darned machine shut off. Then, I tried to retrieve the info from the machine history, but management had totally revamped the programming on the machine, and I couldn't retrieve it, inspite of repeated efforts. Then I proceeded to have a total meltdown in the patient's room, throwing the machine at the wall and using profanity. The only saving grace was that the elderly patient was not particularly with it.

I've also had a recurrent dream where I come to the end of my shift and find out that I didn't realize that there was a patient I was supposed to have, and I never went into their room for the whole shift.

I just started working as a GN (passed boards now RN) 3 weeks ago. I have dreams constantly about nursing.

About a week ago I had a dream that i shot myself in the leg and it was just dangling. I was hopping around trying to find an ambulance. I finally did and the paramedic put an IV in my hand, but it infiltrated by the time i got to the hospital, so the nurse couldn't give me any pain medicine.

Then I had a dream that an IV pump was beeping and i couldn't find the room that it was in. When i woke up, it was my alarm clock going off.

My latest dream was that I got my own labs back and my BUN and Creatinine were "sky high". No values, the report just said "sky high". My kidneys were failing.

these were all within the last 3 weeks.

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