SweetLikeSugar

I once took care of a local sports personality. He was really needy. REALLY needy!! He didn't bring an entourage with him, but his attorney was with him the entire time. He told everyone that he was the patient's attorney EVERY SINGLE TIME someone en...

I had a surgeon tell me that once. I was calling about his fresh post-op patient regarding uncontrollable nausea/vomiting and he was so mad that he was called in the middle of the night that he refused to give any orders and told me not to call him a...

The 2 times my grandfather stayed there he ended up in the ER. Once after a fall down the steps and he suffered a head laceration from that. The second time, he fell backwards into the bathtub and my mother found him. We have no idea how long he was ...

So you feel that heroin, crack and crystal meth should be legalized?? Seriously???

I worked as a graduate nurse on a med-surg floor until I passed my boards. I worked with another RN during my orientation and then I was on my own for a couple months until I became an RN. I guess some states don't allow this...I don't know. I have b...

We have a urologist that hates to be called after 10pm. I had to call him a few months ago for one of his surgical patients. I made the mistake of calling at 10:15pm. He yelled at me for calling that late saying that "this is something that could hav...

I have a neighbor that asked me to do a dressing change for her after her spinal fusion a few years ago and honestly, it never occured to me to tell her no. But, it was just a 1 time thing.....she called and told me that her husband was out of town, ...

We had a 92 year old man on our unit about a year ago. He was so cute but soooooo confused. He kept calling the nurses into his room and telling us that we had to call his mom because she had no idea where he was and she was probably worried sick abo...

My parents put my grandfather in respite care at one of the many many LTC places in our community so they could go on a vacation for a few days. My grandfather was about 89 years old with dementia. When he had stayed there before, he was always place...

at the hospital I work at, we are timed on how quickly we answer the call lights. A timer was installed at the nurses station and as soon as the patient hits the call button, the timer starts. The timer doesn't stop until we physically go into the pa...

On the last unit I worked on, one of the nurses came up to our floor after her aunt passed away on the oncology unit downstairs. She informed our nurse manager that she would need 2 bereavement days for that week and our manager's response was "Oh s...

This is an issue on the floor I work on. Usually it's regarding overtime pay. Our NM will pitch a fit if a stand-by RN who works 8 hours a week is there 15 minutes past the end of her shift. Doesn't matter if she had 2 rapid responses and 3 admission...

When I was a fairly new RN, I had a direct admission come in from her GI doc's office. Direct admission = no H&P, no orders, nothing. The patient states her doctor told her she would be "PON for her ursupp the next day." WTH?? I literally starte...

I'm going to start out by saying that I'm not asking for medical advice, I just need some opinions here. My parents have been seeing the same PCP for about 15-20 years now and they really like him but I am starting to wonder if this doctor is kind of...

My nurse manager won't even double check insulin or SQ heparin anymore. She claims she's not allowed since "she's no longer a bedside nurse." And the last time I saw HER boss at one of our staff meetings, she told us we "better start acting like thi...

Every year for Christmas and for nurses week we get one of those huge canisters of popcorn that everybody walks by and digs their hands into....from the Infectious Disease group. And one of our GI docs always sends up a big bag of pistachios or some ...

I'll be working 7p-7a tonight. It's the only reason I'll be up at midnight....otherwise I'd be in bed by 10p!! LOL Happy New Year to all my fellow nurses!!

I work on a post-surgical floor so all of our patients are ordered PRN pain meds q2-3 hrs. When we give a pain med, we must reassess in 1 hour and document their pain level on a 1-10 scale. I have had many post-op patients that request that I just br...

I work on a very busy post-surgical unit and having a second RN to verify phone orders just isn't gonna happen. Half of the surgeons are ****** that they had to be bothered in the first place. If we told them that they had to repeat the order to a se...

I work on a post-op floor and most of our patients really do try to be independent. A couple years ago we had a 40 something male patient that was 2 days s/p lap appy that was refusing discharge because he was still having post-op pain. While his sur...

I would probably take the peds office job. I worked part-time in a peds office while I was in nursing school and it was nice to have a set schedule which made it much easier to schedule my classes. During my senior year, I took a position as a Patien...

Wow!!! Just.....wow! I honestly don't even know what to say to that!!

We once had a GI doc that wanted orthostatic BP's taken on his patient. Instead of writing "orthostatic BP's" he drew 3 stick figures in the lying, sitting and standing positions. Combined with his serial killer handwriting, none of us could figure i...

I work on a busy post-surgical/telemetry unit and one of our daylight charge nurses has only 2 years of experience and has been in charge (on and off) for about a year. There are many nurses on my unit that have over 25 years of experience and she is...

I work on a 21 bed post-surgical/telemetry unit and our night shift CNA transferred to another floor about 3 months ago and the CNA that replaced her quit about a month later so we've had no CNA on nights for about 2 months now. When there is one sch...