The Hunger Games and Nursing

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Game time! Post an example of why you know Nursing Practice today to be similar to The Hunger Games :)

I'll start: Some days you just have to survive, nothing more heroic than that!

C'mon....you know you want to...!

Specializes in 15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU.

Under what nursing scenario could I tie myself to a tree to take a nap.

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Under what nursing scenario could I tie myself to a tree to take a nap.

Infection Control renewal?

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Oooh, sorry, then I guess we're all out.

Not necessarily a bad thing, Farawyn. :) My comment was meant as tongue-in-cheek and I hope it was taken as such. If not, I offer you my apologies.

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Not necessarily a bad thing, Farawyn. :) My comment was meant as tongue-in-cheek and I hope it was taken as such. If not, I offer you my apologies.

Me?

No offense taken.

Although I was dead serious. We are a hot bunch. Especially that Frank N Furter guy. Wonder what happened to him?

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Specializes in hospice.
I don't want to dress like Kat but I would like a cape and depending on the shift, I'd like to set my scrubs on fire.

No capes!

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

With hair braided sideways in true Katniss Everdeen style, I enter the arena know as the Emergency Department to begin my shift. As I see the clock tick around to 0700 I hear the call overhead...."Trauma Alert. Emergency Room. ETA 5 minutes." And the games begin!

With the adrenaline starting to course through my veins I set up the trauma room in true ER nurse fashion. IV supplies readily available. Normal Saline. Lab tubes. Monitor set up. Suction. Ambu bag. Crash cart. Green pads laid out on the stretcher. I don my gloves and with tourniquet in hand waiting on my patient to come through the trauma room doors.

They roll in and I methodically do my job and survive yet another trauma :)

Ahhhhh. The wonderful, terrifying, gut-wrenching, nauseating, exhilarating, amazing world of nursing that we get to experience. I love my job!!!

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Author: Art Williams

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Specializes in Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative.
Under what nursing scenario could I tie myself to a tree to take a nap.

I went and took my car through the carwash. It was the only way I could think of eight minutes all to myself.

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Specializes in ICU.

Knowing 3 people are on call and hoping you are not the tribute..(first one called in).

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Just like Katniss in her dehydrated haze in the 74th Hunger Games... there will be a lot of emphasis on the color of someone's urine.

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Specializes in 15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU.
Infection Control renewal?

Would that be like the annual skills renewal Skill-a-thon?

Being tied to a tree is sounding downright exhilarating!

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Specializes in Occupational Health/Legal Nurse Consulting.

Hearing the *click* *click* *click* of your supervisors high heels drawing nearer while talking to peers is like hearing the general yell "CLEAR THE SQUARE!"

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.
At the beginning of shift, everyone runs to to get the supplies that you need - blood gets shed, and there are many immediate losers. You got to fight for the good dynamap machine that prints.

Your every movement is tracked and observed.

You are not merely in danger from nurses or patients. Management creates and inserts other staffers guarantee to annoy you and waste your time and resources.

You never know when you will next be able to eat, drink or pee. And disaster will probably strike then.

At every hour of the clock, a new frightening task awaits you.

The very old or the very young are often easy targets.

If someone in pumps, pearls, high hair and lots of makeup comes to your unit, and calls your name, you know that you are screwed.

This is great! You are very good at this game.

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