1. Camming is way more fun than $120,000 in student loans for nursing school.
2. Smoking pot before a job interview is totally acceptable.
3. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.... (...that gives you renal failure, heart failure and cardiomegaly)
4. If you tell someone you need to get deer ticks off of testicles, you will have an audience.
5. Night shift. Glorious, glorious night shift. I haven't slept in days, but I got to actually do a good, thorough job changing a bandage and OMG.... I taught people actual STUFF. I miss night shift.
6. I keep forgetting I'm old enough now that doctors can and will be younger than me. It's okay, though, because I look younger than them.
7. Literally every person could end every post with "wait 24 hours before you do the PVT, and people will still brag about their good pop up and offer advice on how to pass.
8. People are actually able to spend $120,000 on nursing school. This girl said $20,000 per semester. I'm pretty sure she says BSN. I'm not sure if she realizes her math is off. But still.... It's crazy.
9. I'm nearing a breaking point on some personal life stuff and confess I've secretly been glad to escape it to go to work.
I'm just going to throw this out there, but as a general rule of thumb when talking about people who are transgendered, it's considered respectful to use their preferred name and pronoun. I mess it up all the time myself, so I'm not hating, just thought you might like to know.
Totally agree with the respectful treatment of transgendered individuals. There was a nasty thread awhile back about a psych nurse referring to a transgendered patient as "it". Just intentionally hateful was my take on it.
During Diane Sawyer's interview there was a clear statement made that the network would refer to Bruce as "he" until such time as Bruce came out as the yet unnamed "she". So I'm with Farawyn on giving Spidey's mom a little pronoun forgivness.
That some families are not interested in palliative care and want their 95 yo father for full resuscitation even as he gasps for air they are arguing with the medical staff.
I have learned to never, ever explain to a patient's family what the numbers on the BIPAP mean--because they will Watch. It. Like. A. Hawk. and call in a panic when something is "amiss".
I, too, have learned to be careful explaining monitor readings to patient's family members. They start to sound like a very impatient, nagging physician I used to know. Minus the med school knowledge. And common sense.
I, too, have learned to be careful explaining monitor readings to patient's family members. They start to sound like a very impatient, nagging physician I used to know. Minus the med school knowledge. And common sense.
I spent 4 hours at the pool with my kids today, I always make sure they get lotioned up good, and they usually just get my face. Oops. I'm freezing and exhausted! And I have a headache despite drinking 6 bottles of water while there. :thumbdown:
I experienced my first and second OR deaths last week. I'd had patients of mine die before (when I worked floor/stepdown), but not in the OR. It's so different. The sheer chaos in a trauma (or other emergency procedure) or OR code...there is so much going on. Then suddenly there is a determination that the event is non-survivable and all the activity stops. It's also surreal - the amount of noise we usually hear in the OR secondary to all the monitors - to have none of that...it's eerily quiet.
That when I attend a family function (directly after working my third night shift in a row) so as to prevent family drama; I become the creator of the aforementioned drama by being snippy with everyone and falling asleep in a recliner.
I learned a patient with scrotal edema can find his member easier by leaning his bed back instead of listening to his shouts of "sit me up! Opps, I lost it, help me find it"
I learned how dependent I am on the telephone, especially when the telephones go down. "let me call pharmacy for my IV fluids...ohh" "Let me call the lab for my lab slips...ohh" "Let me call the CNA...ohh...where is everybody?" "Let me call the MD for my critical labs...oh thank god I can get through to the operator!"
I also learned that when the phones are down you best wear your tracker or else you'll be shouting for that person down the hallway.
I also learned that if you have to think really hard about when you've last had a BM, you've waited too long to go to the hospital.
#6 - I watched part of the video related to the transformation. Bruce (aka Caitlyn - by the way, that's my daughter's name and it is spelled Caitlin) was in a golf cart tooling around and a camera was focused on his/her face and folks, there are lots of normal wrinkles! The photos are majorly airbrushed. I'd look that good with airbrushing!
What did I personally learn this week? That trying to buy airline tickets to another state in order to visit your granddaughter is difficult. There are few non-stop flights and most of the flights are 2-stop with changing planes and 3.5 hour layovers.
One thing I miss about being married to someone who works for an airline is cheap standby tickets. But that's all I miss.
Did you know that if you buy airline tickets and you SAY you're purchasing them from a third world country like Ethiopia, you'll get a way lower price? It doesn't matter where you REALLY are and they don't actually verify it. (Don't get mad at me if it's not true - I heard it on the radio.)
That some families are not interested in palliative care and want their 95 yo father for full resuscitation even as he gasps for air they are arguing with the medical staff.
This makes me sad 😢
Whenever we have something like this happen, the next thing out of some of the older nurses' mouths is, "don't want to lose that check..."
I think I'm still too green, because it surprises me (in a bad way) every time they say it. I don't want to ever believe a person would full code a suffering family member just to keep a social security or pension check.
Mavrick, BSN, RN
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Totally agree with the respectful treatment of transgendered individuals. There was a nasty thread awhile back about a psych nurse referring to a transgendered patient as "it". Just intentionally hateful was my take on it.
During Diane Sawyer's interview there was a clear statement made that the network would refer to Bruce as "he" until such time as Bruce came out as the yet unnamed "she". So I'm with Farawyn on giving Spidey's mom a little pronoun forgivness.