I came on yesterday night and ran into one of my coworkers on the way up in the elevator. She had been working the day shift, i was on for nights. She had a pair of wrist restraints in her hands.
It's bad when the doctor (DVM) meets you at the back door and says "I'm so glad that you are here. I cannot get an IV catheter in a big mixed breed dog". I get there and see a large dog flat out on the gurney, anemic, breathing poorly with poor blood pressure. I got a 16 guage in it the second try. It was big enough to give the euthanasia solution. The dog had an abdominal tumor (spleen) that had ruptured.
Thanks for that. And, um, hell to the no! And there I was thinking the short shifts, split shifts and broken shifts the government are threatening to bring in were bad
Here's another thing I love to hear when I come on: "You didn't see a tall man with a frame/elderly woman in a hospital gown/young girl trailing blood from a snapped IV as you came in? Oh dear. He/she's yours and I can't find him/her. I guess you'll have to notify the unit, call the family and notify the police."
talaxandra as a single woman with no ties to Melbourne if split shifts short shifts and poor pay raises come in I am out of here! I love Melbourne but more chance of snow in Feb!!!
...they are coding your patient in 34, don't worry about listening for report, just go to the bedside
...your patient in 12 has a sedated MRI at 0730 (it's 0710) he had a float nurse last night, I don't know if anythings been done, or if there's consent
....they say his abstinence scores are always high, but he was a perfect angel for me last night, he slept all 12 hours!
The family just revoked Bed 4's DNR, they want everything done (on someone who's endstage everything, agonal breathing, SBP of 78, and having increasingly prolonged periods of apnea...)
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Jenni811, RN
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I came on yesterday night and ran into one of my coworkers on the way up in the elevator. She had been working the day shift, i was on for nights. She had a pair of wrist restraints in her hands.
my only word to her was "GRRRREAT"
she gives me a half smile and says "Oh yes..."