Valuable life lessons from an ER nurse....

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Don't do drugs. Or drink.

Specializes in Emergency.

Opiate withdrawal never killed anyone.

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Specializes in ED RN, PEDS RN, IV NURSE.

That was not a seizure.

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Specializes in ICU Stepdown.

Take your clothes off

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Specializes in ED RN, PEDS RN, IV NURSE.

No. You can't eat Mr. abdominal pain.

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma, Critical Care.

Wear a condom. Not every STD is easily curable, and if you keep getting the same one you should really evaluate your choices of partners.

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Specializes in Family practice, emergency.

If you're talking, you're breathing.

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I'm not a maid

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Specializes in cardiac ICU.

No, it's not MS, it is Lyme disease!

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

Its in my butt.

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Specializes in ICU.

Classic: Get out of my ER.

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Specializes in Emergency.
LV3677 said:
Classic: Get out of my ER.

What's the life lesson?

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Specializes in Family practice, emergency.
JVoEDrn said:
No. You can't eat Mr. abdominal pain.

This made me chuckle... Did you mean, "You can't eat, Mr. abdominal pain?" Because I read this at the end of a very long shift and I read it as written. Which leads to the next one... "Nurses shouldn't bite their patients."

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