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.

They probably do the best they can with the budget they are given from the hospital. The healthy stuff is more expensive.

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Specializes in retired LTC.
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!
WOW! Just remembered I worked a place like that too. A staff nurse at the time took some snapshots and we used them for our Fire Safety classes. We all could easily recognize the room and the corridor all scorched and blackened.
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Specializes in retired LTC.
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!!!!!
And make sure we give them enough Vicodin & Percoset to block up the mighty Mississippi!

(So Cleopatra can't float along on her barge!) :roflmao::roflmao: Love that Cleo comment!

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I'm a little unsure why we even have dieticians with the prison food we serve at our hospital.

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Specializes in PACU, pre/postoperative, ortho.

How about the pt c/o of diarrhea, abd cramping with bowel prep & wants a call to doc at 2300? Ummm, NO! Duh, we talked about what the end result of that drink concoction was.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
No,I don't want to be a nurse .I want to be a painter.Thank you for your advice!

Oh.....Honey...you do realize this is a site for nurses and nurses for members.

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Oh.....Honey...you do realize this is a site for nurses and nurses for members.

I'm sorry I don't know. You can make friends with me?

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
I'm sorry I don't know. You can make friends with me?

This is a professional networking site intended for nurses & nursing students not a meet new people site like MeetUp or Facebook or any of the other social websites.

There are very few teens that visit this site, those that do are visiting to explore educational options to becoming a nurse whether US or abroad.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
I'm sorry I don't know. You can make friends with me?

sure we can........ but we talk about nursing here, nursing our patients, problems at work, issues with nursing school.... and not much else....we have a forum for non nurses called the breakroom.....Nursing Network for Nurses and Nursing Students - Latest Articles you have to use your same user name and password ...non nursing stuff is over there.

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Specializes in Emergency.
Dilation of the intestine as gases not moving cause the distended bowel to irritate the diaphragm

Ahhh yes, the dreaded TFS (trapped fart syndrome).

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Specializes in Public Health, L&D, NICU.
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!

My first job out of nursing school was like that. When I started there, the cafeteria was amazing. In fact, on Sundays, tons of people would come for lunch, whether they had family in the hospital or not (very, very small town). They had to put a sign on the wall telling the public to allow nurses to cut in line, otherwise we'd never get in and out in 30 minutes. Fast forward a couple of years. We have a gorgeous new building with a gorgeous mortgage to go along with it, and they started cutting funds. It was so embarrassing. On Sunday nights, it was like they cleaned out the freezer and served whatever was about to expire. One notable Sunday supper was mashed potatoes and egg rolls. Seriously.

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Specializes in Neuro ICU and Med Surg.

This is not nursing related, but the AT&T U-verse commercials where the kid is getting his hair cut in the bathroom. Who has a bathroom that big, furthermore who takes the TV outside by the pool or by where kids are playing basketball? Frankly who moves their TV around the house all that much because they now have a wireless cable outlet?

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