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I played the tuba. Also, I was a 98 lb girl in high school. Awesome, nerdy combo.

I just made this same list (in a slightly different order)! Do we work together...? [emoji6]

Levophed, propofol, fentanyl, protonix, and lovenox. MSICU if you couldn't tell!

Ugh, i hate ears too!!

I like sharp things...

You have intubated people on the floor?!

For some reason, I cannot handle ear wax. Ugh. So gross.

What a lovely, beautifully-written tribute to your daughter, who sounds remarkable! She is fortunate to have parents who see her for who she is and recognize the many gifts she has to offer.

Patient was scheduled for an elective, outpatient surgery. Woke up early to shower, and fell to the ground, breathless and weak. Wife called 911. Pt coded in ambulance. Coded again in ED. A third time in CT. Found a massive PE. tPA was given and pt w...

For some reason this person wasn't cooled per the therapeutic hypothermia protocol - as I understand it is was because he was a PEA arrest and very hemodynamically unstable - but I don't know for sure. I wonder if his outcome would have been differen...

I'm sure his death was very multifactorial. He had no CHF hx, and the echo tech was on their way when he coded, so the echo wasn't ever done to confirm that his heart was damaged. The rapid bedside echo in the ED was read as normal, but he had coded ...

I have called in sick 3 times since becoming a nurse 5 years ago: when I went into labor, when I had pneumonia, and once when my childcare provider was sick. But I really never get very sick.

In my ICU, I rig up a IV pole near the in-cabinet toilet in the room. I tape a suction tubing up by the top hook and drape it into the toilet. Then I hang the effluent bag and hook the tubing to the drainage port, open it, and let it drain into the t...

Raise the ivpb higher or lower the maintenance. Also, sometimes maintenance fluid will back up into the piggyback tubing.

They could be in the process of obtaining your background check or references before they make an offer. That process can be lengthy.

I thought I wanted L&D or peds. Now work in an adult MSICU and love it! Wanna stay as far away from OB and peds as I can!

Penile implant that became infected and eroded through the head of the penis of this pleasant octogenarian who was a retired minister. 😳 He had the offending device removed and had many visitors and I wondered what they told the grandkids about gr...

I work in a small hospital with one IV nurse each shift who puts in PICCs and does all central line dressing changes. They are also available to start peripheral IVs if needed. So many nurses just call the IV nurse to do all their starts and it can r...

What does mean? I see this a lot, colons on either side of a word and I can't figure out what it means! 😋

I have the pink restricted limb band on mine!

I was having such a "Q word" day at work today. Never said the word itself, but someone must have because about an hour before shift change I got an ICU transfer, then I had to respond to 3 RRTs within 10 mins of each other (I was code nurse), then o...

I work 12 hr days on a med/tele floor and usually took 3 pumping breaks (the middle one was in conjunction with lunch and I had a hands free set up so I could eat while I pumped). Most of my coworkers were happy to cover for me. A few things that hel...

I'm in Oregon, on a med-tele floor. We have a 1:4 ratio, 1:5-6 on nights. It's pretty great! I don't know how you guys do it with 7-8 patients!

"The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'" - Jesus