Nursing Superstitions!

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I thought this would be a fun topic since nurses are the most superstitious people in the world!

I believe that disaster will strike if someone says the "Q" word. I even cringe if a patient says it.

I also never bring a book or magazine to read because I think it will be a slow day. That's a sure way to guarantee a code or a ton of admissions! :D

O.K. maybe I'm a little weird. :p

LOL means Laugh Out Loud

The "S" word is SLOW - but don't say it at work!!!! :eek:

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The "Q" word gets me every time! Administrators thimk all nurses are nuts anyway so I am use to their questioning looks when I tell them "Don't ever say that word" As a substitute I have encouraged my staff to say Calm instead. Haven't noticed the Gods responding to that one YET.

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I never say the q word. Always anticipate a bad day so it won't turn out bad. try to not work on a full moon

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I swear if I don't pray that I will have a good day at work (no codes, difficult patients, etc. ) I have a shift from hell! I also have to pray the whole hospital has it good to!

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Specializes in OR.

Don't know if someone posted something similar(didn't read through all the posts-I know, BAD GIRL) but in the OR, we never ever mention abdominal aortic aneurysms-AAA. One time the phone rang and the anesthesiologist on that night said "HaHa, it's probably a AAA" He was right. I also noticed that any night that I brought my books to study when we had downtime, we would be so freakin' busy...

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Specializes in OR.
imaRN said:
The same for us all the usual superstitious behaviors and another one is, several years ago, a patient in our unit got one of those "walking Tweety Bird Balloons" the big ones that move with the currents of air, Well it ended up in another patients room after it's patient died,and they died too, Then everywhere that balloon showed up someone died,,,,,it was like a horror film! We have never looked at those balloons quite the same since then...and we shudder when one comes in as a gift for a patient!

This is the creepiest thing I've heard in a while. Just another reason why I dislike balloons!:lol2:

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Oh lordy! LOL!

The "Q" word... you gotta run and find some REAL wood and knock on it three times...and FAST!!!

Just good luck finding real wood, hee-hee!

Pt's DO come back when you talk about them! Just happened to us again this week!

As my mother always said, "Don't call what you don't want to come!"

Pt's also die in three's.

A very sick pt who suddenly gets quite perky is sure to die SOON.

The dreaded full moon....

And as soon as you congratulate yourself on not having to clean up poop all shift, someone will have an explosion just before you get to go home!

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I talk about nursing superstitions all the time at work... I think it's funny that an evidence-based field like nursing relies so heavily on them... yet I believe them myself.

What about preparing for the worst? On tele floors, anyone who is bradying down to the 40's or so gets pacer pads at the bedside and atropine ready by the monitor... that way we never need to use it.

The really unstable patient gets the code cart outside his or her door, and it won't be used that shift.

The patient with the frequent loose stools gets more wipes, briefs, and linens in the room, so that you won't have to use them.

I could go on and on, but the point is, if you prepare for it, it won't happen.

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Our superstition...

we always have the code cart in the room when giving a pt ibutilide. Otherwise they will for sure go into VT.

And yeah, we NEVER say the Q word, and we certainly have a couple of s**t magnet nurses. They even admit it themselves.

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SmurfGwen said:

What about preparing for the worst? On tele floors, anyone who is bradying down to the 40's or so gets pacer pads at the bedside and atropine ready by the monitor... that way we never need to use it.

I think that's just good practice. We have anyone with HR's in the 30's with the pacer pads on and monitor at bedside, usually by MD order.

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Specializes in ER, Tele, Cardiac Cath Lab.

NEVER throw something at the trash container. If you miss the rest of you day will be a disaster. Always make sure you carefully discard the trash!!!

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Specializes in LTC, Subacute Rehab.

My day will always be markedly more hectic if I wear my white socks with pink flowers on them.

The opposite is true for the light blue socks with penguins.

Black socks with skulls and hearts on have no effect.

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