Back in my good old days of being a midnight charge (of the WHOLE building), I had a sweet confused lady who insisted she wanted CPR. Attempted to explain multiple times that if she can ASK for CPR,...
I am still haunted by my first code. The patient had been a young guy, in his mid-40s. He had been a paraplegic who had started on the unit with vent, trach, urostomy, iliostomy, and wound vac. He...
I am still a relatively new nurse (13 months on the floor), and still stay perky. Sometimes overly so, especially after the massive amounts of caffeine kicks in... Mostly, not only am I happy to...
Take the time to double check your meds....The speed will come... ASK QUESTIONS. I can't read your mind if I am working with you, and trust me, I would rather explain it to you and have you understand...
Samsung added the wonderful block mechanism to their phones that you can only receive calls from selected phone numbers for the times that you choose...All others go straight to voice mail... At my...
I bought a brand new motorcycle and shoes... $300 nursing clogs that I had been staring at my whole time in nursing school (while wearing hideous pure white nursing shoes). Oh, and the hot pink scrubs...
One of my first patients after I got my license was a nurse. She hadn't told people because she figured they would stop taking care of her. She had seen me fumble through my first ever PEG...
I actually had a patient on the LTC wing of my building call 911 and tell them she needed CPR. When I was charge nurse for the whole building.... That was fun times to explain to both the cops who...