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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. Patients who die right after the family leaves the room.

    nitenite posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Hi there. I don't work in hospice, but a friend of mine does and she's seen this happen several times. A patient will be circling the drain, the family stays and stays and stays, and the minute they...

  11. 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

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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!

  16. 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...

  17. Triage complaints- the good, the bad, and the shocking.

    nitenite replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

    Funniest: A man came in with a small dumbbell weight stuck in his rectum. He wanted to make his butthole stronger. Worst: Had a patient literally rip his face off in a motorcycle accident. He didn't...

  18. Excessive pain during labor effects

    nitenite replied to Kaysmom8's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Don't forget about

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

    nitenite replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh God the above made me gag. Mucus is my

  20. How to deal with surgeons that treat you like ****

    nitenite replied to rncoco's topic in Operating Room

    Document, document, document. This kind of crap escalates if you don't make it known that you won't put up with it. Good

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

    nitenite replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    ^ Eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww!!!!!! Couple nights ago I had something in my ER that I've never seen before and I've seen a lot. Guy on a motorcycle without a helmet somehow ripped his entire face off on...

  22. OR Pet peeves

    nitenite replied to MsLeylaBar's topic in Operating Room

    Surgeons with big egos who think everyone worships the ground they walk on.

  23. It shouldn't have happened this way....

    nitenite replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I know this post is old, but it made me cry. That's just terrible. Nobody even checked on

  24. Compassion Fatigue

    nitenite replied to GinaDecorRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Was the link removed? I can't seem to find

  25. Funniest/strangest dementia patient stories

    nitenite replied to Angie O'Plasty's topic in Nursing Humor

    I just laughed so hard I've got people staring at me.