Nursing Dreams

[2bnursescrubs]

Does your career affect your dreams? What dreams have you had that were a result of a different day at work or stress or the opposite, content? If you remember any I would love for you to post them. I just woke up from one of those that's why I've decided to start this thread.. but it was about my school not so much about nursing itself but served as a great inspiration. I remembered why I can't wait to go through all of this. So have you had any dreams where you are communicating with patients or working very hard or plain "partying" at the hospital? :) Do you dream about your work often?

[nurse_clown]

i used to dream about call bells. boy was i glad when i woke up to realize i was at home!

[RGN1]

I have a recurrent dream where I'm always late for work and can never find a phone to call them or can't make a phone work etc etc. LOL I am such a chronic early person to appts and work!

I've had the same sort of dream as this one! Except I'm not a chronic early person (though I'm never late for work!)

[michigooseBSN]

I sometimes dream that it is almost the end of my shift and somehow I never found out my assignment so nothing has been done. Now I've got to try and catch up on a full days work and also hide the fact that I never took care of my patients all day. What a relief to wake up and realize it's just a bad dream.

[zacarias, ASN, RN]

I dreamt last night a non-verbal patient had been raped and the nurse came back to discover it and was crying because she felt she could of stopped it. In the same dream, later our unit was held hostage by radical islamists. I think I got paid overtime too :)

[arelius]

I only have about 2-4 dreams per year none of which are nursing related and I vaguely(sp?) remember each of them after I wake up.

[MIA-RN1, RN]

last night I dreamed I was a nurse in an ED that was inside a Super Walmart. People were shopping for produce in the aisles right around the trauma beds lol. Anyway, my patient was having trouble breathing and was in the ED for back pain from trying to purchase and carry a big screen TV. Good grief!

[introspectiveRN]

last night I dreamed I was a nurse in an ED that was inside a Super Walmart. People were shopping for produce in the aisles right around the trauma beds lol. Anyway, my patient was having trouble breathing and was in the ED for back pain from trying to purchase and carry a big screen TV. Good grief!

OMG!! I can really relate...seems like when I am awake and in Super Wal-Mart...it's like a nightmare that I can't escape/wake up from.

It's hard to say: do I spend more time at the hospital or at SuperWal-Mart???

P.s. Don't give Wal-mart any ideas...I could so see them making this happen someday :uhoh21: .

[MIA-RN1, RN]

LOL!:chuckle I have to go shopping today, I'll keep my eye out for any beds being moved in!

[nurse_clown]

i had a scarey dream once. in my ltc job, i cared for a former nurse. i wasn't too attached but i only see certain residents awake during the night time. two weeks after she died, i saw her in a dream. it was very weird because she was still in her wheelchair and there was electric light behind her.

when i went to work at my hospital job, one of my coworkers had died from a heart attack.

[2bnursescrubs]

Woah :smackingf you guys are scaring me- too many night mares. But thank you :chair: For posting them

[nurse_clown]

woah :smackingf you guys are scaring me- too many night mares. but thank you :chair: for posting them

yeah. dreams are weird, eh? :uhoh21:

[whipping girl in 07, RN]

I have dreams where I'm at work and it's been a crazy night, and towards morning I find out that I had another patient assigned to me that I didn't know about. Patient has been neglected all shift long (in an ICU setting no less) and is practically dead by the time I find out about it.

I've been working for 7-8 years in the same NICU and I still have this dream at least a couple of times a year.

Ooooh, I have that dream too! Only I work days in surgical ICU (adults).