MECO28 BSN, RN

This whole case is horrible. I cannot wrap my brain around how many things you’d have to overlook to make this error. Did she look at the bottle at all? It’s marked as plain as day. And even if it was Versed…why on Earth wasn’t the patient being...

All of you are freaks. Ok...fine. The med room fridges and Flonase. ?

I’m a float nurse who was being floated to another unit for my last four hours of work and I got stuck giving report to the most crabby, burned-out nurse ever. The ENTIRE report was punctuated by her litany of eye rolls and complaints. I had an older...

Clog zapper smells disgusting and it doesn’t work. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been sprayed in the face with it; it smells like vomit! Coke works so much better...although it’s generally frowned upon these days.

Oh man. That beats the note I saw that described in graphic detail, a patient’s abdominal pain d/t constipation, the bowel regimen given, and ended with this gem: “Patient felt better after having large bowel movement, however the b.m was so large it...

OK, this should be fun! Mine happened this weekend. I had a colorectal surgery patient who, while stable was not looking especially good. The patient's abdomen was getting more distended, they were having more pain, etc. The patient's famil...

If I'm ever dying, please steal my dog and bring him to me. So sweet!

When I left the patient was up and walking and seemed a bit better. But I'll probably never know the outcome since I'm a float nurse.

Yeah, well, I started out young and thin but 4 years of nursing school, 3 years of being an NAC, and 6 years of being a nurse have taken a toll on me. I've gained twenty pounds, have a bad back and knees, and despite running half marathons every few ...

I'm not saying higher education is useless, by the way. It's just that some programs really have very little to do with the reality of the job they're supposedly preparing us for. PS: APA can be useful....more useful than role-playing how to tell you...

My BSN program was not especially useful either. The community college I received my ADN from was way better than the highly-ranked, competitive university I earned my BSN from. Seriously, we spent our first day constructing towers using spaghetti no...

I don't mind if people speak another language around me; it's not their fault that I grew up in an ethnocentric country where it isn't encouraged to be bilingual. This is maybe a little off-topic but it's my favorite Tagalog language story: One of my...

Float pool, baby! We swoop in and save the day! 😎 Also, flight nurses are pretty hot in those blue jumpsuits.

My hospital has something called the "Five Bests" and periodically, administrators will corner us and ask if we know what the "Five Bests" are, generally while we are running around doing patient care. Also, "experience excellence". Those make me eye...

Float nurse here to chime in. At my hospital and most others I know of, float staff are paid a differential because there are stresses involved with floating- needing a broad knowledge base and a roll-with-the-punches attitude that allows you to nav...

PsychGuy: Are you for real? You're a bloody psych nurse and you have no problem with gays being "locked up" or "fined" because you don't agree with our marriage? I hope to God you're never my nurse. Perhaps a profession where you aren't expected to h...

MECO = main engine cut off; when the space shuttle reaches low earth orbit (space!) the engine is turned off.

Oh God, those poor children. This is why I cannot work L&D, post-partum, NICU, or peds.

Sigh. Choose something with a base, people! We had an eggplant on our unit...

Dude.It's like you read my mind.

This guy sums up how I feel. There's some rather spicy language so if you're easily offended you might want to skip it.

So tragic. So senseless. I don't have anything profound to say; just want to express my condolences to all who were connected to this family.

I enjoy the medical unit I'm on now with all its craziness and unpredictability. Give me a big, gnarly abscess to pack any day or a frail, bed-bound geriatric patient, or even a psych hold. Least favorite: I hate ortho! No knees, no hips, no way, no ...

One of the spoons from our cafeteria to cook heroin in.

Our school used the updated Nightingale Oath that doesn't have all the God stuff in it nor the sexist "serve the doctor in his profession" line. (barf.) Rest assured, you can be a nurse without thinking it's some kind of "calling" from God. I'm an at...