Nursing Superstitions!

[codebluechic]

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!

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

[twistedpupchaser]

When I am very tired or feeling rundown I plan for the worst and dare the good Lord to disappoint, almost always gives me a nice shift.

[bondoson88]

Well everyone has the same Q word that you are not suppossed to speak that word, ever! Another for me personally is when someone is giving me report and they tell me that "this patient is easy", this seems to jinx me a lot. when the day shift leaves well my "easy " patient ends up going into pulmonary edema or the "easy" patient starts

to poop all night long or something happens, so when someone gives me report I tell them don't tell me they are easy, tell me this is a nice patient! I thought I was the only one that brings 2 angiocaths in when starting an IV. The second one's for good luck! And it never fails as soon as you make a patient a DNR(the one that looks like they're getting ready to code any second!) it seems they just perk up and their vitals improve.

Sometimes, you just have to wave the DNR form in front of them and it keeps them from coding! Also, it seems like everyone seems to die in 3's. I don't know why it's like that but it is. And , I believe that God watches the patients that have crappy nurses! And when you think to yourself for example "I better check that patient's groin for a hematoma before you go to a break,( when you just checked it an half hour ago,) and if you don't check it you'll be sorry because that's when something will happen, so if you think it check it out! And when a patient is very unstable, septic, hypotensive do not give them a bath or do anything with movement because they will code! What we do in the CCU on the 7p-7a shift is to keep the very critical patients with us throughout the night till the day shift get there. There have been times when I 've prayed to God to"please keep their systolic 80's- 90's. and that 's with vasopressers on board! An don't wake up a PIA patient when they are sound asleep,unless there is a fire OK! And never say never because it might be a full moon or something else, you just never know! And when a patient tells me "I'm going to die tonight or I'm dying" or if they start talking to relatives that are dead, watch out because they are getting ready to go to.And when someone that has been very sick all of a sudden starts perking up real good, watch out they will probably are going to die very soon too. :That's all I can think of right now!

[zoopnever]

Tie the right lower corner of the bedsheet in a knot, and the patient won't die on your shift.

After a patient does die, go into the room and ask the corpse for a wish. He will ask God for you.