Kimmedic

Remember why you became a nurse.

When you're pulling a double shift and you start to feed into your patient's hallucinations. "Yes, you ARE Dr. Worf".

This too shall pass. Good times pass- remember them. Bad times pass- let them go. Exciting times pass- learn from them. Boring times pass- be grateful for them. Embrace each experience and remember that being a nurse is a privilege.

That's one for you, one for me, and one for the patient. Geritol for all!

ANY sort of bodily fluid that greets me at the door!

Patient hitting on me: "well aren't you just a voluptuous little munchkin". Insert eye roll.

Taste the rainbow!

I worked in an ER in which the physicians put on their own splints (no ortho tech). One busy night a male MD (always very loud and boisterous but well meaning)beckoned me to a room and asked me to assist him to put a wrist splint on. I came to the room and brought the splint cart. This physician also liked to talk. He was standing in the room talking to the patient and the patient's family about random things and I got impatient and left the room. I was standing at the nursing station (just a few feet away) waiting and suddenly the physician yelled "Kim you better get in here. This thing is getting hard!" He meant the orthoglass but that's certainly not what everyone was thinking. Geez was my face red!

Short but sweet one. 600 lb pt to me "Scratch my lady parts".

Twelve drs screaming, eleven pts pooping, ten pain meds given, nine call bells blinking, eight phones are ringing, seven psychs are leaping, six dressing changes, five nurses stressing, four foleys draining, three BPs dropping, two traumas coming... AND ONE HOUR LEFT ON MY SHIFT (thumbs up!)

Finally figured out what to do with this doctor's stethoscope!

Be like a duck... calm on the surface but paddling like heck underneath"

MD educating patient who has an ingrown pubic hair that has caused a small abscess. Pt had been shaving pubic hair to groom. "You don't need to be doing this stuff (pointing at pt's groin). You need to be like me and go au naturale" (points at his own groin, lifts his eyebrows, and nods his head). MD is late 50s. Gross.

"That's what she said"

Abby Lockhart from ER. The show depicts her as authentic, genuine, and real. She has the same struggles; the same ups and downs that many of us do. She is wonderfully dysfunctional and perfectly imperfect. We can relate to her because she is like so many of us in this way. She, herself, was an alcoholic who fell off the wagon a few times. During that time in her life, she drinks to cope with life's many stressors. She had a bipolar mother and brother and more often than not was weighted down with the burden of caring for them through their illness. She called out a colleague twice for drug use and diversion, and even though it was incredibly hard for her, she risked losing her friend if it meant saving him. This show gave us someone we could identify with; Abby could BE us (until she becomes an MD). I love characters that are realistic!