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!)
Specializes in Ambulatory Surgery, Ophthalmology, Tele.
I just covered two shifts for somebody and one was the most mild shift I've had... and the second was pretty tame, too.
Meanwhile, two of us were talking to the gal in the resuscitation room: "Boy, it's sure quiet in there... almost tranquil... serene, even... like the surface of a mountain lake a dawn... calm and glassy smooth."
Well now your just playing with fire.
I am NOT a superstitious person. I don't care about broken mirrors, black cats, spilled salt. I walk under a ladder. No big deal.
I do believe in everything in this thread because I have experienced it. No, it doesn't happen every time but I don't like to gamble with Mr. Murphy. No thanks.
So I have a question for you (the poster I quoted). I am curious, what about the beliefs like if you wash your car it's going to rain? If there is a power outage or the cable goes out it WILL be at the best part the fight/game/show on tv. When you are most in a hurry to leave your house this is when you can't find your keys or the phone rings. You just can't deny that some of these things happen sometimes, ya know?
We actually had a frequent flier that died two years ago and I still can't say the name. I swear they might come back from the dead.
And...if they aren't dead you can't say their name as in "Gee, we haven't seen X in awhile". Kind of like saying Beetlejuice, if you say it 3 times, they magically appear.
So I have a question for you (the poster I quoted). I am curious, what about the beliefs like if you wash your car it's going to rain? If there is a power outage or the cable goes out it WILL be at the best part the fight/game/show on tv. When you are most in a hurry to leave your house this is when you can't find your keys or the phone rings. You just can't deny that some of these things happen sometimes, ya know?
*Everything* happens sometimes...
I've seen a roulette wheel pop the same number 4 times in a row, miss and then hit a 5th (out of 6).
Even hugely improbable things occur and coincidences happen.
From the world of OB: Never erase the last patient's name off of the "board.". If you do, the gods will see you aren't busy and every woman within a 50 mile radius will go into labor!
Specializes in Ambulatory Surgery, Ophthalmology, Tele.
I'm not particularly superstitious, but it's fun to play along.
I usually don't say the "Q" word--I describe the night as "respectable".
We used to have a frequent flier who we would just refer to as "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named."
We have a frequent flyer eye surgery patient. When one of us is checking the surgery list for the next day you might here someone say, "Guess who's coming in tomorrow?" And everyone knows it's him. He's a very sweet person, knows all of our names, we all know what he likes to drink after surgery. The last surgery he had....his eye was removed.
But something still tells me he will find a way to come back.
The "Smith" brothers are one of our frequent fliers. They are seriously brothers. If one is admitted, the other will be admitted too, no doubt. Once their IV dilaudid is discontinued, they will leave AMA. They leave to smoke too. The new policy at the hospital is if you leave the hospital to smoke or disconnect yourself from your IV fluids and leave the hospital you are automatically considered to have left AMA and must leave.
There is a certain doctor who says I have a black cloud over my head. Me and him...our patients tend to go south.
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I am NOT a superstitious person. I don't care about broken mirrors, black cats, spilled salt. I walk under a ladder. No big deal.
I do believe in everything in this thread because I have experienced it. No, it doesn't happen every time but I don't like to gamble with Mr. Murphy. No thanks.
So I have a question for you (the poster I quoted). I am curious, what about the beliefs like if you wash your car it's going to rain? If there is a power outage or the cable goes out it WILL be at the best part the fight/game/show on tv. When you are most in a hurry to leave your house this is when you can't find your keys or the phone rings. You just can't deny that some of these things happen sometimes, ya know?