Inspired_2b replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing
I haven't been on this forum for quite some time now. I am so happy to see this thread and know that there are this many Muslims in the nursing profession! :) I have been practicing nursing since '04...
Inspired_2b replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor
We had a patient who use his phone to call the nsg station for a nurse. ..."Yes, this is Mr. so and so in room 13, I need a nurse to help me get out of
Inspired_2b replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in General Nursing
Yes, just last night, I found my patient's roommate unresponsive. He was ambulatory - going back and forth to the BR because he had diarrhea. His nurse did initial rounds on home and went to pour her...
I feel you. I never seem to have time for bathroom breaks. Everytime I want to go empty my bladder, there's something I have to finish. I end up using the bathroom around 4 or 5 PM when I started my...
Lol. We were just saying our Medicine floor felt like a psych unit last night. We had a confused, AKA pt. His bed was wheeled to the front, near the nsg station. All 4 siderails are up, and he is...
300+ lbs bedridden pt w/ leg cellulitis needs the bedpan. Can't have BM in bedpan so wants the commode - it takes 3 or more nrs to put her on, it's N shift and only 4 Rns on, 2 on break, only 2...
Inspired_2b replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor
We had a blind, often confused patient who screamed out for the nurse every minute. The visitors were startled by the screams at first, but eventually they got accostumed to it. The patient would...
Inspired_2b replied to elizabells's topic in General Nursing
I'm getting good at this. Few months back I'd have been shuddering reading these replies. But now, here I am ... drinking my coffee and actually cracking a smile at most of these replies. Yeah! I've...
I just finished reading that book. It was a great read. I have also read Tending lives; nurses on the medical front by Echo Heron while I was a student nurse. I've been trying to get more of her books...
Inspired_2b replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor
:chuckle .... I was coming down the hall, when I heard a family member of one of our pts calling for a nurse. Mr. X, in the next bed who was put in the geri-chair with a restraint applied was...
Inspired_2b replied to Aaron Catmull's topic in General Nursing
I did the 12 hr shift when I was a pre-grad student and since I got hired on the same floor - I've only been working 12 hr shifts. So I guess I have nothing else to compare it to. I'm used to those...