She got fired...

[StL_Momma27]

I was in my Ethics class today and one girl started talking about how her friend, an RN was with a patient when they started to bleed out. She said that the patient needed their vein sutured up or they would die. They called the dr and it took him over a hour to get to the room. She knew that she needed a dr in the room, but knew that if she waited the patient would be dead. She saved the patient and her and the dr both got fired.

How is it possible that she saved someone's life, but she gets fired for doing so?

[Teacher Sue]

This actually happened on my floor. I wasn't there when it happened, but I heard all about if from the housekeeper, who heard it from the unit secretary. A patient's vein literally exploded, and there was blood everywhere. Therre were residents in the room with the nurse, but they were all terrified. I heard one of them even fainted. The doctor wouldn't answer, so the nurse had to do something. The patient had been knitting, so the nurse took the knitting needles and yarn, and knitted the vein back together. She saved the patient's life, and revived the resident who fainted before she ran across the street to save ten puppies and a little old lady from a burning building. And the heartless administrators fired her because she used red yarn instead of blue. I mean, everyone knows that veins are blue and arteries are red. Just look in any anatomy book.

[diva rn, BSN, RN]

But did she loose her lisence????

[wooh, BSN, RN]

Only if on top of all this, they caught her splitting pills in half instead of letting a qualified pharmacist do it.

[CRNBSN18]

Wow. This was a great laugh this morning! I really should be getting dressed to take my son to speech therapy.. But this is just too good! Haha. My thought this whole time was... Veins don't flow as fast as arteries- so how Is this so? I'm only a pre-nursing student but even I was thinking critically about this and what I'd do! Lesson learned: never listen to any of the mythical stories I may hear in nursing school! Maybe she just needed to play "hero" and feed her ego! You guys are funny though.. Lol

[CRNBSN18]

And.. If she was doing this "act" including if she had to have the headlight, etc. Wouldn't someone have noticed her gathering all of these supplies and been able to intervene? I can't imagine it not happening that way. If this did happen, surely someone noticed! Eh, funny way to start the day. Now to take my kid to ST and write my paper on endorphins and depression- if I can stay off of this post that is! I love nurses humor!!

[Woodenpug, BSN]

Idk y u old biter nurses r being so mean to the op, she was only telling a story about a nurse eating her patient. Wow, nurses really do eat their young.

[sapphire18]

Only if on top of all this, they caught her splitting pills in half instead of letting a qualified pharmacist do it.

Hahahahahahaha!

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

Oh my goodness.......

[nursel56]

The same thing happened to my cousin's piano repairman's daughter. The vein ruptured, but she was able to use the diamond nail art on her long, chipped, disgusting acrylic nails to quickly cut sharp margins while she grabbed the patient's old-fashioned coke-bottle glasses right off his face (and boy was he ***** he was watching Maury!)and held a keychain flashlight between her teeth as she masterfully sewed that squggly little bugger back together. The patient was angry and the charge nurse didn't even care that she saved that guy's life!!!!

[Hygiene Queen]

I have the feeling this is only going to get worse.

[brillohead, ADN, RN]

I have the feeling this is only going to get worse.

I know, isn't it great???

[Jenni811, RN]

The most important fact is that bleeding from a VEIN, a VEIN is not life threatening. This post is bull. Just think about is people. Go back to the initial post. No one dies from a vein bleed.

Actually...i just got done watching a show where a woman was cut and did bleed out from a vein. It can happen.