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?

[tothepointeLVN, LVN]

But it's fun to work out the implausibilities of a falsehood and on the same vein. How does a vein rupture exactly? Like a volcano. Oh and I always keep a mend it kit in my locker for just such an occasion.

[canesdukegirl, BSN, RN]

Horseshoe- yeah, it's total bunk. But I don't think the OP knew that she was hearing a line of bunk, because it was third-hand. And tothepointeLVN, it IS fun...more like funNY to hear some of the convoluted stories that come out of nursing school. I wonder if the instructor intervened at any point with the discussion?

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

Horseshoe- yeah, it's total bunk. But I don't think the OP knew that she was hearing a line of bunk, because it was third-hand. And tothepointeLVN, it IS fun...more like funNY to hear some of the convoluted stories that come out of nursing school. I wonder if the instructor intervened at any point with the discussion?

If it's an ethics class the instructor was probably none the wiser. My ethics instructor had a doctorate of philosophy. We had lots of implausible medical scenarios in that class, but most of them weren't presented as true.

[ArrowRN, BSN, RN]

I was also thinking that it is not uncommon for folks to not even really know the difference between arteries and veins.

Usually, I hear all blood vessels referred to as "veins" in a generic way.

Perhaps, the storyteller really meant an artery.

ed 101, stab ones blood vessel with a sharp object...very dark blood,oozing out, one just struck a vein...bright red blood, gushing out like yellowstone geyser, you stuck an artery and gonna bleed to death....and yeah suture a gushing geyser???..again highly unlikely story.

[Hygiene Queen]

I was also thinking that it is not uncommon for folks to not even really know the difference between arteries and veins.

Usually, I hear all blood vessels referred to as "veins" in a generic way.

Perhaps, the storyteller really meant an artery.

ed 101, stab ones blood vessel with a sharp object...very dark blood,oozing out, one just struck a vein...bright red blood, gushing out like yellowstone geyser, you stuck an artery and gonna bleed to death....and yeah suture a gushing geyser???..again highly unlikely story.

lol

Hey, I was just putting the thought out there that the storyteller (in class) didn't get the story right because she didn't understand the difference.

Even urban legends may have some basis in fact, but grow to be highly unlikely and continue to be innocently spread about as true, because the storyteller has no idea why it would be implausible... or the implausibility is overlooked because they are so entertaining!

Speaking of which, it's been 3 months now since I've had my hair done. My beehive is getting a little itchy.

Hope it's not spiders!

[Cat_RN, ASN, BSN, RN]

Yes, this story was definitely made up- and it wasn't even a good one. I'm kind of embarrassed for the girl who initially told it- there's no way the instructor would have believed it.

Silly people.

[GitanoRN, BSN, MSN, RN]

lol

speaking of which, it's been 3 months now since i've had my hair done. my beehive is getting a little itchy.

hope it's not spiders!

lol, you're funny.... i still can't believe that this thread is still going on, even when the story has been passed on from person to person and it keeps getting more dramatic, although a little of drama never hurt anyone

[Double-Helix, BSN, RN]

I heard she sutured the vein by using the needle from the insulin she had just given and by unraveling a thread from her scrub top. When she unraveled the thread, it caused her bra to be exposed slightly. She saved the patient's life, but was fired for violating the dress code.

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

Hope you're happy, just spit coffee all over myself reading that! :)

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

but was fired for violating the dress code.

And they reported her to the state for this and now she might loose her license.

[Whispera, MSN, RN]

...but if she loses her license over violating the dress code, it's only because the management is out to get her....

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

...but if she loses her license over violating the dress code, it's only because the management is out to get her....

Everyone knows that the main purpose of management is to randomly target a nurse to pick on and then fire. This is because they think nursing is too fun (oh wait, wrong thread).