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

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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?

Can I ask what Ood means?

A now subservient race in the Dr.Who series.

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Can I ask what Ood means?

It doesn't mean anything really. It's an alien from Doctor Who.

I'm a geek :geek:

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It doesn't mean anything really. It's an alien from Doctor Who.

I'm a geek :geek:

YES. YES YOU ARE! :wub:

The geek shall inherit the earth.

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I found something I really want to do a literary review on for my class but we can't do a literary review on literary reviews. Back to the drawing board :grumpy:

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One of my doctors called me a "good nurse" like he was astonished! Mmmm...yeah...that's after I kept telling him "don't leave" as he keeps trying to leave the patient's beside and I told him his patient has flash pulmonary edema...no that doesn't exist per the doctor...

That doctor found out that re-expansion pulmonary edema is real! He tapped 1.2 liters off a lung. She sounded wet afterwards. I had already given her morphine & lasix before the procedure. I told him not to leave. He waited for the chest X-ray. It looked ok...no pneumothorax, just some pneumonia. I told him not to leave. She turned gray, lethargic, desat'd to 70's on nasal cannula, foaming at mouth. I told him not to leave. I put her on non-rebreather & NT suctioned her. She had no gag reflex & no cough...120 cc fluid out so far...improved sat to barely 90%. He bronch'ed her emergently; still no gag, minimal weak cough...he got at least 500 cc fluid...and it's still coming out. You should tube her I said...he agrees...he intubates her and leaves her on vent. You should call the family...explain! You're a good nurse he tells me...gee thanks! (No duh I'm thinking)...there's a reason I told you not to leave...you would have come back when I called the RRT because she was drowning! He looks it up...re-expansion pulmonary edema is a rare occurrence after thoracentesis where 1-1.5 liters is removed...I guess it's this doctor's first time but it's not that rare because it happens more than half a dozen times in my experience. Repeat chest X-ray shows pulmonary edema...did I mention the patient was awake the whole time...I kept having to hold her hand and reassure her the whole time...poor lady!

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
I hope you live in a part of Texas that ISN'T being flooded.

Thankfully, no. That would've added to my misery. Where we are was predicted to get 5" of rain, I don't even know if we got half that. But my heart is with those people.

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Specializes in Oncology.
It doesn't mean anything really. It's an alien from Doctor Who.

I'm a geek :geek:

Ohhh! I thought it stood for something! I'm not hip with the Doctor Who lingo. :sour:

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I'm seriously starting to feel like if I see one more "help the NCLEX shut off after X# of questions, did I pass or fail" I'm going to lose it. I know it will never stop, but holy hell. Yes, it has happened before. No, we don't know if you passed or failed.

How can I already be so annoyed at people and I'm not even a nurse yet?

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Specializes in critical care.
I'm seriously starting to feel like if I see one more "help the NCLEX shut off after X# of questions, did I pass or fail" I'm going to lose it. I know it will never stop, but holy hell. Yes, it has happened before. No, we don't know if you passed or failed.

How can I already be so annoyed at people and I'm not even a nurse yet?

You haven't even been on AN that long, either. lol

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I grew up too fast to handle idiots. What can I say.

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Specializes in Oncology/StemCell Transplant; Psychiatry.

This week, I learned that apparently all of the classes I took to become an RN are "bogus", and that somewhere in Britain, you can become a nurse by doing on the job training for a couple years.

No more of this education nonsense...lol

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
This week, I learned that apparently all of the classes I took to become an RN are "bogus", and that somewhere in Britain, you can become a nurse by doing on the job training for a couple years.

No more of this education nonsense...lol

Skool iz 4 foolz. No more of that ed-u-ma-ka-shon nonsense!

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