What things have you said that would not sound right in any other situation? Here are a few things that just came to mind today as I was leaving work in which I was doing a flu clinic...
-A person asked me would the flu shot hurt I stated "No, I usually go in nice, quick and easy"
- One guy had to remove his shirt so I could get to his arm, I said" You may have to take off your shirt" Ofcourse he starts dancing as if he's stripping:eek:
- I asked one guy if it was his first time ( referring to the flu shot) he replied no, but I'm very experienced in other things.
"Oh yes a code/MVA" Seriously it is the catch 22 of this profession. These times offer some of the best learning and best use of skills/thinking yet at a great cost to someone else. I hope I dont catch flak for saying that.....
Said to me (new nurse) by charge nurse after watching me attempt to put a foley in an elderly gentleman "Oh for goodness sake, hold it like you know what to do with it!" :rotfl:
Wow that doc sounds very old school as I've always been told oral was just as good as rectal.....
Usually, and in routine situations. But oral can read deceptively low in sepsis, with all the vasoconstriction going on in advanced disease. My late husband consistently read 97.5 orally, when he was 103 rectally from sepsis.
I would have a kid at a Little League game, and I'd set up dh's IVs before I left; sometimes he would call me to ask what to do about some alarm or other, and I'd be sitting in the stands saying "do you need more morphine?". Got some really odd looks!
This 19 y/o had a ruptured appy, suspected peritonitis, before the surgeons went in, they wanted to make sure we got an accurate temp - as the previous poster stated, if he had been septic (which he ended up not being), then the oral temp of 101 wouldn't have been accurate, actually, it wasn't, just by touch you could feel he was hotter than that, his rectal temp was 104.2 - big discrepancy.
we were at clinicals and one of my classmates asked my instructor how nurses do it. she said that's it's like you need 8 arms to be a nurse with the various needles and tops and so on. my instructor replies;
"you would be amazed at what a good nurse can do with 2 hands and a mouth."
i almost started choking from laughing so hard. she got bright red and was like "that really didn't sound right did it"
In one of my health field but non nursing jobs I worked for the health department doing STD investigations. Here I was talking with total strangers asking for all the details (who, what, when, how often, contact info) of their sexual encounters. How many of us can say we got paid to talk to complete strangers in some oddball locations about all the gritty details of their hook ups?
Not a nurse yet, but had to work soooo hard on keeping a straight face when my Pharm teacher and a classmate got into a big, in-lecture convo about "COX blockers".
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Have to admit, there is a gentle squeeze, checking breasts for engorgement...usually let them squeeze therie own nipples:)