sarahbellum

As a new nurses aide that was barely eighteen I worked at a tiny rural hospital. We had one ICU bed next to the nurses station. It was often used for hospice (anyone really critical we air transported out). We had a sweet little patient I'll call "Rose". I was filling her water pitcher one night and she was lucid which was a rare occasion. She looked right past my left shoulder and said, "Oh you're here to get me." as peaceful as a woman in church. I stared at her confused and said, "Rose, it's the middle of the night, you don't have any tests. I'm just here to fill your pitcher." She looked at me and smiled, "I'm not talking you, dear." Needless to say the hair stood up on the back of my neck and couldn't bear to turn around to see if anything was behind me. I left the room quickly and told the nurse. Rose was a DNR died peacefully within minutes. The funny thing is, everytime someone died on the floor at that hospital the outdoor automatic ER doors would open just an inch and then close again. It was a running joke because the ER would always call the floor and ask who died. The ER doors opened that night to let Rose and her visitor out. I swear on my Father's ashes this is true. I've seen to many weird things like this happen in several hospitals not to believe in some kind of soul or afterlife.

I thought a lot of units had stopped using them. We still use them in the Cardiac Cath lab for RHC but not for monitoring, of course.

"Thought this thread felt familiar. There's a lot of good answers here too." I used a lot of those :) it was a closed thread. I was curious if there were any new ones.

What songs remind you of being a nurse? Everytime certain songs play on my ipod they invoke feelings of being at work, been at work. Some are obvious Angel at my side Collette Washington Thank the nurse Country Joe McDonaldsome not so much,

We had a note on a cardiology patient the other day that read "Pt not eating due to the crap they serve here." BTW the words "the crap they serve here" was not in quotes...

:rotfl: We have an interventional cardiologist moving to another city, and we all adore him. I wanted to make him a funny t-shirt to remember us by. Can anyone come up with funny cath lab says for the shirt? Here is what I have so far... Stents are sexy (with a superman emblem on the front) The way to a woman's heart, kidneys, brain and everything else is through her wrist (he does a lot of radials) The Heart Whisperer Any other suggestions? :redbeathe

Any interventional cardiac cath lab nurses out there? If so, do you take call? How often do you have to take call? Do you have to stay at the hospital? How many on your team? Do you "double chart" i.e. does your circulator chart in your hospitals charting system while the recorder charts in the "Mac Lab" or whatever else you use. I work in a small, urban, diagnostic/interventional lab. I was just curious how other labs have their call schedule. We take call twice a week and have 30 minutes to be at the hospital. We only have three people on our team but I have heard of 4. I think with computer charting 4 call members would be nice. It is too hard to be a circulating RN and double chart in stupid EPIC (the computer charting system we use) We also use Mac Lab to record cases. Any answers are appreciated! :redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe:redbeathe

I just switched from a neuro unit to the CCL. I am now learning how to circulate. I am totally overwhelmed right now but I love it!

I am also a new grad who was hired straight out of school into a unit. I was miserable and overwhelmed. I lasted 2 months off orientation and then I transferred to their stepdown unit. I like the stepdown unit. It's still fast paced, I still get similar patients just not on a critical level. I have learned a lot in the past year. The nurses on the stepdown unit were also accustomed to new grads and much more likely to help. It took me a long time to get my confidence back, but I feel so much better now and I know now I am good at my job.

This isn't a blooper but still funny. I was looking up something in the doctor's orders on a patient that had been in the hospital for about six months. The hospitalist had ordered a consult for geriatric med and put the reason as:Is this patient ever getting out of here?

We have a nurse who writes the word "poop" in random places on the unit. Not the charts, of course but on memos hung in the break room, the doctors phone book, ect. For some reason this is so funny to me. I will be reading the education board and find the word "poop" written in between the lines...... He usually writes it on things that people are upset about in the unit. New paperwork, stupid rules etc. It's very satisfying...

I have a new one.... We had a new post op ostomy who wasn't the problem, her husband was. We have several PCT who are barely 18 and two had walked in the patient's room to find him buck naked in the chair. Neither of them had enough sense to call security. I had the patient the next day and was warned about the husband. I went into her room to get her ready for discharge and she asked if she could shower. Her ostomy bag was leaking so I said she could shower and then I would have her put her ostomy bag on afterward and do return demo. I told our PCT to stay out of the room, her husband was coming to get the patient. When the patients shower call light went off, I didn't think anything of it and walked into her room to find her bathroom door wide open and (I gag thinking about it) Her husband was naked in the shower with her and had his FINGER IN HER OSTOMY and an erection (I'm pretty sure he was getting ready to put something else in her ostomy). I screamed and then I told him "You put your clothes and and wait for the patient in the waiting room!" then I told the patient "I will not help you with your ostomy bag with him in here!" After he left, I had to help her with her bag and she acted as if nothing had happened..... It takes a lot to nauseate me, but I just about lost my lunch on that one.....What is wrong with people! BTW I called security but by the time they were there he and the patient were long gone.....

I work at St. Anthony's in a fairly centralized unit and I haven't heard anything about that. There has been grumblings in the past, and half hearted attempts to unionize but nothing that anyone could embezzle from to my knowledge. Our unit was told we were using too many isolation gowns the other day, the hospital is pretty cheap, I think they would notice 30,000 dollars missing. :wink2: Sounds like baloney to me....

Thanks! The part about indoor walking makes sense! I will stick with my asics for work.

"I wear the original design whenever I run. I just took my USAF pt test in them last month. I still prefer to run barefoot, but these shoes come close to being barefoot. The soles are fairly thin, but they will protect you from broken glass, rocks etc." Would you consider them for work? I was going to buy a pair and slowly transition my running routine to them. My theory is that my body would adjust faster if I wore them where I am during 50% of my waking hours--work.