This week, I have learned..... (6/13)

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Specializes in critical care.

1. That I can get sucked into this place for entire days at a time when I'm sick, off, and in an empty, quiet house.

2. When I have an electrolyte imbalance, my heart goes into trigeminy and I have seizures (not scary tonic clonic ones, so not as scary as that sounds).

3. Throwing up a potato when you are dehydrated is seriously horrible.

4. Wounds can smell THAT bad.

5. Then the next day they can smell worse.

You?

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Specializes in critical care.

I almost forgot!!!! Crack is a hell of a drug! (especially when your grandma smokes it.)

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

This week I learned that just because your newly repaired heart is external pacemaker dependent for 13 days, doesn't mean that on day #14 it won't reset and not need that pacemaker you were scheduled to have implanted in another hour.

*and the potato part of the OP is seriously wigging me out.......

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Specializes in critical care.

*and the potato part of the OP is seriously wigging me out.......

It wigged me out, too! Made me realize how much we depend on fluids to successfully vomit. It was straight up STUCK.

Btw, I hope the patient made it the extra hour!

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Made me realize how much we depend on fluids to successfully vomit. It was straight up STUCK.

:eek: :facepalm:

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.
It wigged me out, too! Made me realize how much we depend on fluids to successfully vomit. It was straight up STUCK.

Btw, I hope the patient made it the extra hour!

She did - happily ever after!

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I learned that there are few things that rival the utter soul-sucking nature of CALL BELL abusers. !

*ding. ding!*

"Yes, Mrs. H?"

"I need my nerve pill."

"Let's see.. it looks like your Ativan is due in an hour."

"Oh, okay"

3.5 seconds later...

*ding. ding*

"Can I help you?"

"Pleeeease can I have my nerve pill?"

"I can't give it to you for an hour, I have to follow the doctor's order, and he already said he's not going to order it more often."

"::sigh:: ok."

2.3 seconds later.

*ding. ding*

"Yyyyesss?"

"How about a pain pill?"

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that when the doc wants to go home for the night and you page him it is apparently ok to call an RRT

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Specializes in ICU.

I learned that one of our intensivists blushes very easily when we show him our crude humor! He is too precious.

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Specializes in Emergency.

About wellen's syndrome. Rare, but i now know what that ekg looks like.

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That HIPAA is challenging when your patients are your neighbors and your kids' friends and you've had rum punch with your patients and your kids' friends parents.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

Wrestling with special needs pts is FUN!

Documenting on a trauma sheet can be arduous, but a great learning tool for self studying;

Disappearing pts are fun-making it easier to clear the decks and reassuring that they will live another day;

That people trust your judgement, especially about co workers who come to interview and can be nasty and have been nasty in the past; or a great team player and deserves a position.

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