What Baffles You?

[GundeRN]

So I have come across this a few times. I am holding a straw to a persons lips and they drink and drink and drink and pretty soon they are waving their hands for me to stop. Stop what?! You don't have to keep sucking on the straw just because it is in your mouth. I think the universal sign of I'm done please remove the straw should be to stop sucking on it and open your mouth! I have had a few people have to catch their breath and make comments about me giving them too much! What? I don't get it.

[monkeybug]

I could never understand why some people think that an ambulance is an absolute necessity. I would not call an ambulance for myself unless I seriously though I would need intubation in route. And I get calling an ambulance if you desperately need to go the hospital but have no transportation. I'm referring to the pregnant women who come to the hospital for yeast infection (no other complaints) via ambulance with 4 relatives following in private cars. Don't tie up emergency services so you can pretend you're Cleopatra on a barge floating down the Nile! When my water broke at home, I didn't call 911 and have my husband follow behind in our car, I rode with him​.

[FineAgain]

And THAT is why I gave up EMS. "I have been constipated for 2 weeks". And yet, you call me at 4 am so you can get a ride to the hospital. Cleopatra floating in on a barge -- omg I spit coffee all over my keyboard. This is the best thread ever.

[NICUmiiki, DNP, NP]

How about 20/10 ??????

Math tells me that pain is a 2! Lol

[martymoose, BSN, RN]

Seriously makes me want to give him some pillow therapy---- but I digress....

:roflmao: pillow therapy LOL

[K+MgSO4, BSN]

Dilation of the intestine as gases not moving cause the distended bowel to irritate the diaphragm

[Mommy&RN, BSN, RN]

HAHA yes! I give up and use the faces myself most of the time. Your face looks like a six to me. Six it is.

No, it's a 6 1/2!!! WTH?

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

I don't get the family members who are there theoretically to support a loved one who is in the hospital for one kind of acute illness or another.....and then want to tie up the nurse, as she is trying to talk to and assess the patient, with their own stories of their own once-upon-a-time hospitalization or chronic illness woes. The more you try to divert them so you can get to the patient at hand, the more graphic and insistent they become. Like a child, competing for attention.

[DoeRN]

I don't get the family members who are there theoretically to support a loved one who is in the hospital for one kind of acute illness or another.....and then want to tie up the nurse as she is trying to talk to and assess the patient, with their own stories of their own once-upon-a-time hospitalization or chronic illness woes. The more you try to divert them so you can get to the patient at hand, the more graphic and insistent they become. Like a child, competing for attention.[/quote']

This times 100%. I say as nicely as I can ok well it looks like you recovered from your illness now we are going to concentrate on your sister so will can figure out what's going on with her and get her better too.

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[Aoliviya]

The chances are my dream.I want to be a cartoonist.But my mom said.Being a cartoonist is good-for-nothing.My dream troubled me.I don't know what to say or do.

[sapphire18]

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[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

The chances are my dream.I want to be a cartoonist.But my mom said.Being a cartoonist is good-for-nothing.My dream troubled me.I don't know what to say or do.

Where are you from? Do you want to be a nurse?

[Aoliviya]

Where are you from? Do you want to be a nurse?

Oh!I'm from China!Nice to meet you! I'm a 15 years old girl.I want to be apainter. I'm sorry my English is not good. I also now in practice.