(Forgive the early submission this week. Got a busy day tomorrow and last week's thread has just changed its code status to DNR, with a discharge to hospice. Thankfully, most of the family agrees. Unfortunately, one person thinks I'm trying to get more inheritance than Farawyn, but thankfully that's what probate lawyers are for.)
This week, I have learned:
Creatinine can go from 9 to 1.9 in 12 hours. Then 0.65, 24 hours after that, with 13,000 mL out in two shifts.
If you're prepared to ask if your patient group can be split up tomorrow, be prepared to be made out to be an a-hole in front of the rest of the staff just for asking.
My legs are a-holes.
Furry woodland creatures are terrifying.
Metoprolol is a hell of a drug.
Cardiologists should consult nephrologists for beta blocker dosing once a creatinine hits, like, 2.
Some patients would rather walk across the room to pull the code blue button rather then push the nurse call button on their remote they've had glued to their hands for days.
It appears the end of August is "Celebrate Right Before Shift Change Disasters" season.
There are two miserable ladies who post in every thread. But now I'll never know who they are.
There is a person with an STD in their colostomy stoma.
An iPhone can delete all of your contacts in one area code and rename all of your contacts 'Steve'.
I am incredibly frustrated that hospitalists don't clarify code status at admission. Families are SHOCKED to consider that just because their kids know what they want, doesn't mean we'll know.
The State Highway Administration employs archaeologists.
My baby turns 8 tomorrow. I remember feeling impatience at the end of that pregnancy because I wanted to KNOW her. She was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen, and has grown more so with every passing year. As fulfilled as I am by being a nurse (I was one of those disgusting "called to it" nurses. Wear gloves when you read my posts, friends. That icky stuff might be contagious.), being Mommy is my one true superpower. :)
I got pulled over for speeding for the first time in 3 years & I'm so happy to be a nurse because he let me go once I told him I work as a nurse.
My hubby (cop) said when he was in the police academy, he had a very old crusty professor who told the class that you NEVER give a tiket to nurses....because "they will pee in your bullet holes."
1. 600mls of albumin won't make any difference in that SBP, but dopamine (thanks doc..finally) surely will.
2. Finding FOUR fentanyl patches on your patient's body is just wrong. Wrong with a capital W.
3. I should not be allowed Internet access when drinking. The mail came today, and I am the proud new owner of a brand new pair of Dansko clogs, and TWO Sanita clogs.
4. Coming home to my own personal Christmas package opening party in August is awesome.
5. Telling the hubby that my feet are on FIRE, so I really needed new clogs is lost on him when staring at three pairs of new clogs.
I think I may actually take a break. Which is hard because ya know, you all and ya know, the School Nurse thread, and ya know the blue side, and ya know, now I have to make this roster...
But when your other online board is jealous of AN, you know you need a break.
No swan song like AcuteHD, but I WILL try to cut down.
Soon.
So, you're saying that you've been spending more time on AN than LOTR? Inconceivable..
Please don't take a break. We need every voice of reason available these days it seems
Tex.
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My hubby (cop) said when he was in the police academy, he had a very old crusty professor who told the class that you NEVER give a tiket to nurses....because "they will pee in your bullet holes."