Davey Do

Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years)

Overcome fear by seeing the funny yet ridiculous side of every situation.- Edgar Cayce

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    "(Nursing Ads) We'd Like to See"

    Sometimes, models with toothpaste smile are used in nursing ads with headings for serious subjects which just doesn't jive. Standing around and smiling about emotional and physical pain? I don't think...
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    The Weekend of... 8-2 to 8-5-19

    Bob was very impulsive and Friday night, when I went to attempt to give his meds, he spit them out and spilled the cup of water. I immediately retrieved the meds, got a towel, and was stooped down in...
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    Your most bonehead moment in nursing. Or 2. Or 3.

    THAT WAS GREAT!!!! I actually laughed 'til I cried! Thanks,
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    Useless Shift Report Information

    Yeah, Workitinurfava. Give me the good old days when the most difficult thing on the MN shift was staying awake. But, I work at a "for profit" facility and they seem to want us to admit patients. And...
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    The Weekend of... 7-26 to 7-29-19

    I say "Amen!" to your whole post, Daisy. We are consensual. Mandy said something along the lines of "It takes no knowledge in order just to make an effort". Shortly after Mandy began working as a...
  6. Due to insufficient staffing, I worked three different psych units in two shifts. But maybe more about that later... Saturday I was scheduled on the geriatric psych unit with two non-licensed staff...
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    The Weekend of... 7-26 to 7-29-19

    Thanks, RNNPICU! That gives me an
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    Useless Shift Report Information

    I love my work wife Eleanor so much that I would take a bullet for her, but... ...she is always 10 minutes late and gives long reports. I am ready to take and give report at the start of shift, not...
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    Useless Shift Report Information

    During shift report, I have the floor and immediately chastise the
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    Possible exposure to syphilis

    But I understand your concern, PBRG. Over 20 years ago, I had an MVA victim's blood in my eyes and mouth and, more recently, had to wrestle with a psychotic, spitting patient diagnosed with...
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    Useless Shift Report Information

    I am such a smart aleck jerk-faced creep. One young nurse said to me, "You're going to have a terrible shift!" And my reply was something along the lines of: "Oh? Oh, tell me young pulled nurse, who...
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    Useless Shift Report Information

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    Useless Shift Report Information

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    Useless Shift Report Information

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    Useless Shift Report Information

    You're right, saraleigh, or otherwise they might have said: "The patient has anhedonia which means 'and he don needa nothin'!' " Or "The patient is in asystole which means she is 'a sister in the Tole...
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    Useless Shift Report Information

    On the flip side of things, we on psych often admit patients through ER, both as transfers from outside facilities and in house. Sometimes have to nipple twist or testicle kick in order to get basic...
  17. When the patient room is locked and the patient is up in the locked-from-the-outside dayroom, psychotically acting out. Seriously, NRNPH, as FolksBtrippin said, on psych we next to never give beside...
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    Useless Shift Report Information

    Yeah, me too, Snatchedwig. If I was in asystole I could do without getting pleasure out of
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    Useless Shift Report Information

    When relaying absurd, yet true, information and the recipient says, "You've got to be kidding!", I respond with, "No, I'm funnier than that". I was giving report and had entered the "anhedonia" as a...
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    Useless Shift Report Information

    My work wife, Eleanor, often says of situations like this, "It made me want to stab her eye out with an ink pen!" Empathy to you, Neo
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    Useless Shift Report Information

    Had a situation where three patients were being transferred from an overflow unit to the adult male unit where I was working. The young nurse, who I'd never really worked with but had heard stories of...
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    Useless Shift Report Information

    Or, as I quoted a tech in another thread, "This ain't rocket science or emergency brain
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    Useless Shift Report Information

    Outstandingly funny! (The crowd goes wild) Hey Crash! Let's be Graphic
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    Useless Shift Report Information

    Hey, adventureRN- we don't like your kind around here, so vamous! Seriously, I enjoy both listening to, and giving, a good report. I will often say to the reporter, "Good report!" or if I have some...
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    Useless Shift Report Information

    Or when they read patient information which is in print: "121A, Ima Schiz, 56 year old schizophrenic patient of Dr. Hobbit's with IDDM, HTN, COPD, and BPH, who came from the ER, brought in by police...