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The best one from a friend of mine who does not speak english at all... my collegue was on her training for olderly (?)...the guy she worked with told her at 17hr we need to go fast, we go in each room and we install everyone in bed or chair for the meal coming at 17h30 . He told her, you start at one end of the hallway and I start the other side and we have to meet in the middle, so go fast. She did what he asked for, really motivated to get the job. She went in every room and installed every body, bed up , table in front of them and even the towel to cover the gown...in one room, she saw a old lady in the bed and next to her, a younger one was crying. She said to herself, probably the daughter findind hard to be next her sick old mom in the hospital. She installed the old lady ready for lunch and the other one keep repeating the same thing but she spoke english and my friend did not catch a word. She was really proud being that fast and got the the nurse zone where the head nurse asked to talk to her. The head nurse asked; do you speak english...my friend said...a little.. The head nurse told her, you know the lady in the room numberxx, she was triyng to tell you something. My friend said i know but I did not understand nothing so I installed her mother and left. Well, she was trying to tell her that her mother just died!!!

Another one...health phone line.. a woman called to ask what she should do now...her husband was on a trip and she needed sex and she remembered one time her husband took a finger to stimulate her in the rectum than she tried this with a pen but now she lost the pen in and could not find it anymore so she wanted to know if she need to go to the emergency....I think so..and don't forget to SIGN your admission form...

Working at a health phone line, a guy called for a severe pain in the foot. My collegue asked him a few question to make sure there were no emergency, so she asked is it swollen, red, how much is the pain, how is the temperature of that leg, and the man kept answering ..well i don t know..so she was a little tired and finally said...well it should not be that complicated to answer my question, if you compare with your other foot is it bigger, warmer ...and the man said...well i don t know!!...i just have one leg!!

Well you know what they say difference between god and the surgeons...god does not think is a surgeon!! I agree they are hard to work with, and the biggest winners of all, orthopods !! I agree!!.. Sorry... I know you will say they are good in all specialty and it is true, but this is not the question here!!...but anesthetist are really nice. And by the way, OR nurses are not easy either, here in Canada. But in general all nurses are nice don't you think so??)) Byebye!!

I work actually in a private surgical clinic and I was teaching the patient to apply cold compress on her face for the next 3 days...so I told her you take a bowl and put some ice and water in, don t apply ice on your face but that keep your water really cold and so you can put your compress in without getting out of your bed each 15 minutes...she looked at me and asked very seriously...I don' t understand how will I get the bowl to stay in place on my face???)))... Have a nice day...sorry for my english I'm french speaking but I make an effort!!

I work in a private surgical clinic...I had a patient in recovery room who asked me...i'm sorry, do I have a lot of pain?...

Hi, I just left an OR dept in a hospital for an another hospital, still OR. I'm still in training..in between, I saw a job at a private clinic, the doctor himself called me and was interested to meet me, considering that in the first couples of week of the training you learn the basic things that I think you need to know (prep, draping, instruments)to work in private...But I did not go because actually I don't want to do all the time the same thing, I want to learn more, so I accept the job at the hospital, but jsut to let you know that I think it is possible, even better if you have basics knowledges, anyway surgeons seems to have their own way to do things and like you to do it that way, so in private they seem ready to learn you what they want. Check the job offers or send your cv to private offices!! Goodluck!

Thanks!!I had a great day, last minute change, I start in the OR unstead then the recovery room but I like it so!! Thank for your support!!

I worked in a medical office in the past, doctors in private don,t pay a lot but they have been the best boss I had,I learned a lot with them, I wish you good luck!!

I was a sex educator in a highschool before ...I worked with a school nurse and it is with her that I learned more about this job, Iwent back to school to become a nurse...I never say to people I meet what I did before, enough ear when you say you are a nurse and they tell you for the thousand time..oh..I'm sick...ahah...imagine the stupids things that come when you say you are a sex educator...

Hi everyone, I just wonder if you can give me some advices on this new job tomorrow, I start in the recovery room in a new hospital. I will also get the training for the OR later and since I'm available to do endoscopic, minor surgeries or whatever related to surgery, they don't ask me to do ON CALL anymore and they give a full time day job!! it seems to me like a great new! Hope I will be fine...:uhoh21: By the way thank you to all, I really appreciate reading your posts!

I did this job for a couple of years, as a part time overtime job...at the beginning, every evening, during at least one call I was absolutely sure that it was a joke of the guys at the radio...but I get used to it..it is just reality..I remember the one with the poor lady who called because she wanted to know what to do after she lost her husband's pen in her rectum...and the one with the men giving oral sex to his pregnant wife, he was worried to give the baby his cold...and the worst or the best...a men called the 3rd of january, worried for his wife, he told me she was asleep since the 31th in the night and never woke up since then, he tried to move her and everything but she wouldn't open her eyes, nothing...my first question was...does she breath? he told me..I don't know, I just call to see if it is normal after all she took during the party...I hesitated to ask, is she cold but I send the 911...

In the hospital where I worked a couple of years ago, a very well known hockey player came for healthcare after an accident...girls were all upside down...and you, for which famous star would you be ..let's say the best nurse you have ever been??

I'm a nurse but in my dreams...i would be a surgeon who would be so nice to the nurses!!!!

Okay so what you say is that overweight nurse are bad examples??? So I imagine you would like to live in a perfect world where no one is too much stress, every body is goodlooking, exercice 3 times a week, no one smoke, no one drink too much at christmas party, no one drive too fast, no one eat too much, love chocolate or coffee, no one take sex risk, well...Welcome to reality of human being...who are we to judge somone else?...Thank god I'm not perfect, it help me to understand others who are not...

Yes, it is... After, something will happen in the room and guess who's fault it will be?? Anyway, I made my decision, I'm leaving. I have a new job starting on tuesday, still in the OR but another hospital, let see if it is better...

Where I work, (well I must be leaving after last week but this is another storie)...we were used to bring the patient in the room when every body is ready, surgeon and anesthetist...Two weeks ago, we receive a complaint of the medical comitee, cases are often delayed and it would be, of course the nurse's fault...we now had a new order to bring the patient in as soon we are ready, last friday, a patient wait 1 hour on the table because the anesthetist was not there!!!

Another one I just remember... As a school nurse, I sent a 16 years old teenager to the medical office for a throat infection, where he received an antibiotic prescription from the doctor, I always ask to come to tell me the result of the consultation. When I asked, did your start the medication, he told me, I don't know how to get it...Well, go to the pharmacy...He told me...I can't ...I don't understand what it says on the order and don't know what to ask the pharmacist!!! too cute...

What is the difference between god and a surgeon? God doesn't take himself for a surgeon...

I used to work on a triage help phone line (we call it info-sante here don't in usa) where pt call to have advice before going at the emerg for nothing...a pt call and told me he tried to put a *suppositoire (sorry don't know the correct word in english) in bathroom without turning on the light the night before, when he got up in the morning, he found the supp in the bathroom but never found the tipe of the toothpaste tube!!!

I was a student nurse in a trauma department and I had a patient with Y jejunostomy, with 3 ends, one for the food, one for meds and one for the ballonet. I put my syringe with meds in the good one and a nurse of the floor came to see and told me I was not on the good one, I looked at her with doubt but did not say nothing because she was the graduated one so I told myself I must be wrong...she came by my side and told me, put it the blue (or green or whatever was the color,) so I did and start to push but it was resistant, so I stopped and told her, I can't push it in here, she was impatient, took the syringe and gave the first 10cc and told me, it goes there, what is your problem, si I wanted to give the last 15 cc, then..BANG I heard a terrible sound and so is the patient..I ran see me teacher and she told me, you broke the ballonet!! I felt so bad, the patient had to go under surgery again...but me teacher kept me in the team because usually I was a good stugent, and she asked that nurse the fill out the accident report...and told me something I will never forget...HAVE CONFIDENCE in yourself when you know you are right and be careful who you trust...

Just want to say that I'm glad to see that so many people still want to do this job, we ear often complaints about our jobs, in Canada this is less popular than ever to become a nurse, some complaints are true but I think, this is really a nice job, not easy but it worth it...and I think that is very nice of you to wonder what are the expectations as you want to succeed...so I wish you goodluck, do what you do with your heart, be yourself, never be afraid to ask, I don't know one experienced nurse ( ok maye one or two but we are millions so!!)...who is not happy to give the teaching to a motivated person...

Welcome to nursing!! I so understand what you say, I'M a nurse since 10 years but just start a new job and feel completely out of the game...I go back each day because I quit my last job...but day by day, it will come, did my first scrubbing on my own today so!! You can do it...we need you so much as a new nurse, accept the support that yours colleagues offers, you need them but they need you too!! Goodluck!

It happened to me once, all tests return negative ..so far...Is this something you are dealing with now?

I did it, not on purpose, but I got pregnant during my last year at nursing school, 10 years ago now. it is hard but you can do ti if you really want it...remember to never let work take place over your health and ask for help, my collegues and teachers were very nice with me. I finish school 8 months pregnant, and had the exam for the licence when my baby was 4 weeks...Wow...good to be young!!! Good luck to you!