What Baffles You?

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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.

Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.
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.

This.

This baffles me.

Okay, that was mean.

Aoliviya - go for what you want to do! And you are only fifteen. You could change your mind or maybe you won't. But make sure to do well in all subjects because all subjects will help you in art!

So, *why* are you on a message board for nurses? Does your mom want you to be a nurse?

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This.

This baffles me.

Okay, that was mean.

Aoliviya - go for what you want to do! And you are only fifteen. You could change your mind or maybe you won't. But make sure to do well in all subjects because all subjects will help you in art!

So, *why* are you on a message board for nurses? Does your mom want you to be a nurse?

No,I don't want to be a nurse .I want to be a panter.Thank you for your advice!

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
NoI don't want to be a nurse .I want to be a panter.Thank you for your advice![/quote']

Perhaps search for some artist groups or message boards. You are likely to find some support & feedback there rather than a nursing board that may not be able to relate to someone who wishes to be an artist, painter, cartoonist, etc. I am rather certain there are several online groups for those working in or wanting to work in the arts. Good luck.

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Can't understand why COPD patients which just got off the ventilator want to smoke. Today one patient was able to get hold of his personal belongings and lighted one, while having a 6L O2 mask on his face...!
Did he explode?
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Did he explode?

I have worked with a patient who caught fire this way. Burns and grafts to face, hands, neck, and chest.

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What baffles me is why we feed our patients such crap food and expect them to be able to have BM's! Like hello we give them no fibre at all and they are immobilized and we wonder why we have to do bowel protocol all the time? How bout instead of filling our patients up with lactalose we give them a bran muffin!!!!!

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Specializes in Surgical, quality,management.
What baffles me is why we feed our patients such crap food and expect them to be able to have BM's! Like hello we give them no fibre at all and they are immobilized and we wonder why we have to do bowel protocol all the time? How bout instead of filling our patients up with lactalose we give them a bran muffin!!!!!

AMEM! I have just been having this discussion with dieticians and our EDON&AH

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Perhaps search for some artist groups or message boards. You are likely to find some support & feedback there rather than a nursing board that may not be able to relate to someone who wishes to be an artist, painter, cartoonist, etc. I am rather certain there are several online groups for those working in or wanting to work in the arts. Good luck.

Oh.Thank you for your advice!

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Specializes in Public Health, L&D, NICU.
I have worked with a patient who caught fire this way. Burns and grafts to face, hands, neck, and chest.

My first job, during orientation, we were taken to a room on the old med/surg hall to see the scorch marks on the floor from such an explosion. It made an impression!

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Specializes in Public Health, L&D, NICU.
What baffles me is why we feed our patients such crap food and expect them to be able to have BM's! Like hello we give them no fibre at all and they are immobilized and we wonder why we have to do bowel protocol all the time? How bout instead of filling our patients up with lactalose we give them a bran muffin!!!!!

I will never forget the night I had a hall full of post op abdominal hysterectomies, and dietary served a big ol' plate of pinto beans and cornbread. I stuck my head in every door saying "Don't eat that, I'll be back with soup."

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What baffles me is our chintzy food service:

A regular diet, an ADA diet, a sodium restricted diet, a cardiac diet, a tyrosine-free diet, etc. etc... all seem to be the exact same thing!

Pureed meat is apparently something that was regurgitated from a mamma bird and floating in water... with a nice big chunk of unprocessed meat hiding in there. Oh, good! I wanted to practice the Heimlich maneuver today.

The worst food choices ever for diabetic patients... donuts, bagels and cream cheese, pancakes and not a lick of sugar-free syrup to be found...well, thank goodness for metformin and insulin, right?

Here's a fun trivia question for all our kitchen staff! Ready? Okay:

"What is fruit?"

Sometimes, I look at the trays and I'm honestly embarrassed!

You should see the beef stew... it looks like diarrhea and carrots!

I'm so tired of being embarrassed by our kitchen... yes, I'm embarrassed because the kitchen staff get to hide in the kitchen while I have to face the patient and serve this slop!

I'm baffled because I don't understand why they don't care and how they get away with being so bad!

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pancakes on the diabetic diet- even with the diet syrup.

Gee, why are all my diabetic bg's > 200?

Let me guess, pancakes were on the menu......

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