one of those nights

[Red Kryptonite]

I'm having this kind of night at work....

Anyone else?

[mvm2]

Nope...I think I can safely say that my worst shift ever would never put me this far out into left feild.

[Red Kryptonite]

Seriously? It's a joke. It's a quote from Happy Gilmore. Lighten up. Yeesh, is everyone on the board as fun as you?

[Nursing24/7, LVN]

I hear you. I would never actually do anything to harm a patient of course but I had a night like this the other night...late stage dementia patient was violent, yelling & would NOT go to sleep. Even after the charge nurse gave him an Ativan & 2 sleeping pills. He was up my whole shift. I was mentally & physically exhausted. I just wanted him to go to sleep.

[Kitsey]

lol-this is us just about every day. 1 dementia unit. 2 1:1's, and 3 aides. You do the math!

[Nursing24/7, LVN]

Yes Kitsey it's everyday for me & I'm sure most CNAs out there too...but the other night was particularly tough, some days/nights are tougher than others that's all Red Kryptonite was venting

[Red Kryptonite]

Exactly. Thanks for getting it. I had two pinging their call lights, yelling, trying to fling themselves out of bed onto the floor, and just generally being difficult all night. I too would never actually act like the orderly from Happy Gilmore, but come on, how many of us CNAs don't love that character?

[kbrn2002, ADN, RN]

If you get a chance to listen to Sam Jackson reading the "childrens" book Go the **** to sleep! please do. It's one of the funniest things I've ever listened to.

[donsterRN, ASN, BSN]

Someone recently posted on FB that it was one of those nights where everyone was just ringing the callbells incessantly. She likened it to everyone practicing for Jeopardy. I couldn't get that image out of my head! Bing, bing, bing.

Not long ago, I had a patient who kept asking over and over for something to eat. After making toast again or for the fourth time, I muttered to a co-worker that it would be my pleasure to take this patient and put her in front of the open refrigerator and tie her there with the provision that she not move until the refrigerator was empty. Now of course, no one would ever do that...not even me. But the mental image made us laugh. No one got hurt and the shift eventually came to an end and we went home.

It's just another coping mechanism; we all have those things that we would never do. Right?

[Nursing24/7, LVN]

EXACTLY donsterRN exactly

[hookyarnandblanket]

We like to joke that a call light around the neck is still within reach.

[Charmiecharmo]

I'm sorry to hear that! There are plenty of "those days"