enviragirl

We use computer charting and have a few options for the amount of secretions. Scant, Small (100ml/day) or copious. Our secretion description options to choose from are: thin,watery, thick, frothy, tenacious, purulent, clear, white, tan, green, brown, blood tinged, yellow, pink, and hemoptysis. This seems to pretty much cover it. Hope that this is helpful.

When I was a little girl I stuck a ***** willow up my nose when my sister was babysitting. She told my dad who is a doctor and so he looked up my nose with the otoscope. He couldn't find anything so he said it must have come out. Well about a month later I was in the car with my mom and I sneezed and there came the ***** willow! My dad is an ER doc and he had a patient who's wife stabbed him (not funny I know) with scissors, every time his heart beat the scissors moved in and out! Luckily the scissors were in the pericardium and he survived.

I am a very tender-hearted person (cry at tons of movies) and am in my 3rd semester of clinicals. There have been many clinical days where I have gone home and cried. However, the farther along I have gotten in the program I have started to notice that things don't affect me as much as they used to. I'm sure there will always be certain cases that really affect me, but then there are also the really good outcomes that make me feel like what I am doing is worthwhile. Don't let your tender heart keep you from being a nurse. Every clinical instructor I've had has said that that is my best asset. Patients really appreciate someone who truly cares about how they are doing. I say go for it! If I can do it so can you!!!