Found this on Facebook and it made me laugh, I am always shushing people who start to stay the "Q" word (quiet), because usually when someone remarks on how quiet it is, suddenly, it's not.
What are some other things that you say/think? Myths, superstitions, "sure signs" that you know of as a nurse?
And yes, this is what is called a "fun thread" so let's not make it all serious and junk lol. (Except: The Q word one is DEAD serious!)
we have one RN in the ED that is a poop magnet. Whatever assignment she is in gets hammered hard. When she is answering the EMS radio we won;t let her sit down or even write her name on the board because as soon as we do the rain comes and the day is crap. LOL
I just wonder at folks that do bring in books and/or schoolwork. First - don't jinx me. Second, in all seriousness - if you aren't busy, I am. Come give me a hand...
The only time I was ever able to study at work was in nursing school when I would sit one-to-ones on nights. And then only sometimes.
I just wonder at folks that do bring in books and/or schoolwork. First - don't jinx me. Second, in all seriousness - if you aren't busy, I am. Come give me a hand...
The only time I was ever able to study at work was in nursing school when I would sit one-to-ones on nights. And then only sometimes.
I never attempt homework if someone needs help, I'll go around and ask every single person first. I did some homework Tuesday morning, and this caused all holy hell to be rained down upon us Tuesday night on night shift as a punishment. It was a very trying night to say the least.
Nobody is allowed to say the "Q" word. If they even dare to do it, I will knock 2 times on anything wood, to make the bed mojo go away!
Can anyone tell me way I must do the knock?? Had a mother and sister, two aunts that are all nurses. They all knocked?
I call it "bad juju" and I have been known to search frantically for some wood to knock on to make the bad juju go away!
Good luck finding real wood in my hospital!
Several months ago, we were having a fine day and were enjoying it thoroughly. Just in that past week, we had had a unit full of the most horrendous mix of psych pts you can imagine! Over the next day or so, enough of the trouble-making pts had been discharged so things had settled down to a nice, peaceful unit-- for a change...
Then... some fool said the q word. I stopped what I was doing, my eyes wild like a madwoman, and I started scrambling to find some wood-- or something wood-like... quick!
I said, "Oooooooo noooooo... You did not say that? Get me some wood!"
The best I could do was the faux wood flooring. My coworker cracked up, telling me I was a dummy because faux wood doesn't work! So, being far more resourceful than I, she grabbed two pencils and rapped them together... which progressed into a catchy rhythm... which got us singing... which got one of our psychiatrists to express his "concern" for our sanity.
The frequent flyer thing is true!
We said the name a couple days ago and then promptly scolded ourselves.
Sure enough, I walk into work an there this pt is.
*sigh*
Mom always said, "Don't call what you don't want to come!"
Every time any of my co-workers say, "I hope you have a easy night" the phone never stops ringing till dawn, so when ever anyone says that to me I cringe. Seriously cringe.
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I have often been greeted with this bit of wisdom when opting to drop a patient and take a new one on my return day. I still request the patient swap anyway. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't!
That's a good one! I have to add that to my vocabulary to describe an OK shift. We can say a calm shift, a mellow shift...any word but quiet [gasp! I said it].
Of course, you never, ever say the "q" word. Oh woe be unto the newbie who chirps "I'm bored!" as this will also bring in the nuts.
Some others from my years in L&D:
Never say the name of a frequent flyer, even after they deliver. They will hear you and come back. If they've delivered, they'll choose the night you Beetlejuice them to conceive again. (LOL, I remember several of us going out to supper together one night and seeing a frequent flyer. She came to the table to speak to us--hey, she knew us and loved us all from her many, many trips to see us--and announced she was pregnant again. You've never seen a group of people go pale so quickly in unison. Muted gasps all around the table, and then awkward congratulations.
Stillbirths, true knots, and prolapses come in threes.
Pull out Lidocaine, and Narcan and have them at bedside in preparation for delivery. If you don't pull them, you will need them. If it's a delivery with Dr. I-carry-around-my-own-cloud-of-disaster, then you go ahead and have Hemobate and Methergine at the bedside.
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Never say the name of a frequent flyer, even after they deliver.
Stillbirths, true knots, and prolapses come in threes.
Pull out Lidocaine, and Narcan and have them at bedside in preparation for delivery. If you don't pull them, you will need them. If it's a delivery with Dr. I-carry-around-my-own-cloud-of-disaster, then you go ahead and have Hemobate and Methergine at the bedside.
I hope you did not just jinx yourself w/ this discussion lol
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we have one RN in the ED that is a poop magnet. Whatever assignment she is in gets hammered hard. When she is answering the EMS radio we won;t let her sit down or even write her name on the board because as soon as we do the rain comes and the day is crap. LOL
Jamie