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1. Why do patients.....?

   nitenite replied to ArrowRN's topic in Nursing Humor

   A trick I do is pull out the lower lid gently and drop the drops on the little pouch between the lid and the eyeball, then I tell the pt to blink rapidly so the medicine distributes on their

2. Ridiculous medical mistakes on TV

   nitenite replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nursing Humor

   You never see agonal breathing when someone is dying of an injury or heart attack. People dying of terminal illnesses are always conscious and lucid up to the moment they die. Closed mouths on coma...

3. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   nitenite replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

   Yeah, you gotta watch out for those kiddos. They're short order poop

4. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   nitenite replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

   A couple weeks ago I had an elderly pt hang their bare butt off the side of the gurney and spray me with diarrhea. They had a nasty case of salmonella. I threw that pair of pants away. The next day I...

5. Murphy's Laws of Nursing | Life of a Nurse

   nitenite replied to Roy Fokker's topic in Nursing Humor

   Utterly sweet patients with their whole lives ahead of them walk in with a stomachache and leave with a stage IV pancreatic cancer diagnosis. ? Nasty insufferable patients who waste their lives...

6. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   nitenite replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

   This is still the most disturbing story in the thread for

7. It Ain't Like The Movies!

   nitenite replied to madricka's topic in General Nursing

   There's never any agonal

8. 10 year old died after I performed CPR

   nitenite replied to MjHudd's topic in General Nursing

   Oh honey I'm so sorry. You gave him the best chance by knowing CPR and him surviving wasn't in the cards this time. The boy knew you tried to help and I am sure he was grateful even though he slipped...

9. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

   nitenite replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

   Pus. Gimme anything else, but I can't handle pus. Instant gag every

10. ER NURSE PEEVES

    nitenite replied to wojoRN's topic in Emergency

    Pts who ring the call light two seconds after I leave the room when I asked them if they needed anything else before I

11. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    nitenite replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Tonight, I had a pt with most of the skin on his right arm and side scraped off. Lots of muscle exposed. Moral of the story: don't motorcycle shirtless. At least he had a helmet on. He'll live. A few...

12. Too Much Suffering

    nitenite replied to GundeRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I'll never forget the Christmas I coded a 100-something year old Alzheimer's patient because his family wouldn't sign the f***ing DNR. His sternum and ribs pretty much disintegrated and his torso...

13. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    nitenite replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I had to handle a homeless man with necrotizing fasciitis. It literally ate his testicles and his member was infected too. Rolled him over and it was all over his thighs, butt and probably up into his...

14. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    nitenite replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Holy mother of all things blood and guts!

15. Getting burnt out with non urgent patients

    nitenite replied to Lisa9090's topic in Emergency

    Man, oh man, I remember the time I ALMOST quit because of a jerkface patient lacking in compassion. A person(Patient A) came into the ER complaining of chest pain, saying he didn't want to call an...