Nursing Superstitions!

Mags · Jun 18, 2001

I used to work with a nurse who believed that if she heard an Owl hoot during her night shift then a patient would die. It did happen occasionaly, but we were in a palliative care setting! Anyone fancy it as a research project? null

TeenyBabyRN · Jun 18, 2001

Superstitions, hmmm....

*Baby dies = 2 more soon to follow

*Someone says it's q---- = all h--- will break loose.

*Certain docs on call with certain charge nurses = >1 train wreck baby admission.

*Certain docs on call with certain transport nurses = >1 train wreck baby admission.

*Certain charge/transport nurse combos = >1 train wreck baby admission.

*No pendings in any of area L&D's = every pregnant woman in the state will deliver and all babies will come to our NICU.

**NAHH...we don't believe in that stuff**

[wink]

swyswy · Jun 19, 2001

Of course, it is universally known among nurses that one never utters the Q word or the S word aloud anywhere inside the hospital building. It is also STRICTLY FORBIDDEN to allow the labor board to be empty at any time, for any reason. Even in the extremely rare event of a zero census, there MUST be at least one name on the board, preferably c the particulars of a train wreck (ie: 24 wk, severe pih, placenta previa,iddm, chorio).

Q. · Jun 19, 2001

We also never, ever admit a patient to room 15 on the night shift.

swyswy · Jun 19, 2001

HazeK and TeenyBabyRN are 100% right on! Those scenarieos are SOOO true!! :cool:

Deborah Burton · Jun 19, 2001

Where I work, when you have a DNR patient who is crumping, you tie a knot in the corner of the top sheet to prevent their demise on your shift. So far, in my career, every time I have done this, I made it through without an "event". :eek:

TeenyBabyRN · Jun 20, 2001

I forgot one!

Dont say the H word in front of the baby.

Those stable little feeders always seem to turn into NEC (necrotizing enterocolitis) scares right around the time discussions of going HOME start becoming more frequent.

JenKatt · Jun 20, 2001

TeenyBabyRN: I totally forgot about that (been out of step down for a year). About 1 out of 5 kids we would have ready to go home, that one would go down the crapper and back to NICU.. thank goodness we'd get most of em back in a week or so to go home

skap · Jun 20, 2001

We have a room on our floor that a patient passed away in. Well, now in the middle of the night when everything is Q the toilet just starts to continously flush on it's own. No one is in the bathroom and it's dark. It's the strangest thing. We just say, "Oh it's, ______ again!" :eek: :eek:

luannaranee · Jun 20, 2001

One of the nurses that I worked with on occasion didn't believe in superstitions, & he decided to prove his point. He started chanting the name of one of our freq. flyers. The woman was admitted the next day. also, when making my assignment sheet, I always assign a "Code Team", & if I don't do this, we usually have a code.

galenight, BSN, RN · Jun 22, 2001

I agree of course with the "Q" word, "S" word and uttering a PIA patients name.. The full moon goes without saying as well.

My only other superstition is "Kelly's Daisy Scrub Top". We work ER and invariably if she wears that top, you know what hits the fan. For some reason, it is even worse if she wears her purple pants and jacket with it.... go figure.. I have since forbidden her to wear it in my presence But she does occasionally forget... Seems to be worse when we work together.. If she works with another nurse, I don't think it's as bad... go figure.

BrandyBSN · Jun 26, 2001

Some of my fellow BSN students at TSU all share some fears!

We never comment on how easy a test was, because that will cause us to miss more questions, thus lowering our scores.

we never leave on a friday without checking our mailboxes first, or our profs will have put an extra reading assignment in them (which will certainly prompt a pop quiz).

and my personal one, i never start an IV without extra 2x2s, because if i dont have them, the patient will be a squirter.