What I learned this week (6/27)...

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1. Don't go to the hospital code blue during shift change.

2. Not all shaky benzo-wanting 36-year olds are actually benzo-abusers. (Still, pee in the damn cup.)

3. No all drunk chest pains are alcoholics. (Still, WAS scale.)

4. For now on, if a family member has my extension, I will turn it off and get a new one.

5. I have family members who think HIPAA doesn't count if they ask. (It's okay. I don't need a job.)

6. My coworkers value me!!! (Yearly review this week - not one person said a single negative thing!)

7. Apparently cocaine just isn't that interesting this week.

8. Hi, Davey Do!!!!

9. This place needs Esme.

10. If your vitamin D level is 13, you will be tired.

11. I'm still tired and my "what I learned" list sucks this week.

How about you?

Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

Passing the NCLEX is a random occurrence that is predetermined by your scheduled test day/time and must be fake since there are no graphs/scores only pass fail. OK then.

Everybody is a little nuts sometimes.

12 year olds that hide their pills because the DARE Officer told them drugs are bad in 5th grade can have an epiphany after listening to his nurse mom & physician discuss pharmacology and why a drug may work for motility. Now independently and accurately self medicates realizing the medicine works and there is no reason to feel like crap.

Children are sponges and can do awesome even impressing a new specialist when given a new diagnosis requiring a daily regime. Again realizing not all "drugs" are bad and some are needed to live long and prosper.

Just because a child or adult is nonverbal does not mean they can't communicate or have nothing to say. You need to learn how to listen.

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
Passing the NCLEX is a random occurrence that is predetermined by your scheduled test day/time and must be fake since there are no graphs/scores only pass fail. OK then.

Wait, what? Is this a real thread? Link please!

What I've learned:

That surgeons don't want to admit that they shouldn't operate on someone. Instead, they will operate, there will be the expected complications, and rather than admitting there is nothing further to help, continue with futile interventions. ECMO ethics anyone?

That I can have a rational discussion with coworkers about my personal issues that I need accommodations from them for and not cry in front of them (not work related but casual interaction related and doesn't affect me providing patient care) although I will spend an hour or two having flashback nightmares.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
Wait, what? Is this a real thread? Link please!

What I've learned:

That surgeons don't want to admit that they shouldn't operate on someone. Instead, they will operate, there will be the expected complications, and rather than admitting there is nothing further to help, continue with futile interventions. ECMO ethics anyone?

That I can have a rational discussion with coworkers about my personal issues that I need accommodations from them for and not cry in front of them (not work related but casual interaction related and doesn't affect me providing patient care) although I will spend an hour or two having flashback nightmares.

Linky!

https://allnurses.com/post8568902-num1.html

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

There's another one in the NCLEX forum I can't find right now that "scientifically " analyzed pass/fail based upon test center, date & time and how its predetermined whether a candidate will get 75 or 265 questions. Apparently CAT is not real

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12. I still need to write canIgraduate back. (So sorry, love. My brain is mush and my little people are a bit....overwhelming today.)

Eh. I know you love me. No big. :roflmao:

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I learned that it is OK to say no to an assignment across town and it is OK to quit a job that does not meet your needs.

I learned that I am not the only one who forgets to email people back.

I learned that my husband is a gift from God. (Well, I already knew that, but he keeps reinforcing it.)

I learned that I am ashamed of most of my friends and family for their beliefs. I am ashamed of myself for not being compassionate and understanding because I KNOW THEY KNOW BETTER.

I learned that the Confederate flag was a battlefield flag carried by Tennessee and Virginia? in the Civil War, and not actually the flag of the Confederate nation. Kinda embarrassed I didn't know that, being Southern.

I learned that the people of Charleston are some of the most forgiving people in the world and I wish it was infectious.

I learned about your "I learned" threads. (Again, need a "DORK ALERT" button.)

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Specializes in 15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU.

What I learned:

1) I look forward to the "What I learned" thread of the week and seek out things to learn so I can report what I learned last week.

2) I found myself watching "The Brady Bunch Movie" and cracking up over the tongue-in-cheek jokes. (i.e. One bathroom for a house of nine people or Partridge Family bus arriving at the singing contest)

3) 1/2 amp of D50W IV can change a FSBS from 48 to 110 in 6 minutes.

4) 5 weeks being an RN does not give you enough EXPERIENCE to launch a bone-pickin' thread on AN. (Shut down in less than 4 hours)

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-Doing a literary review on a study about migraines will, in fact, give you a migraine.

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That, when leaving a toxic environment of any kind, starting over somewhere new can be extremely refreshing.

That I'm more capable and a lot smarter than I thought I was.

That my level of patience at work is much greater than my level of patience outside of work.

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I learned that a micro premie can make a poop almost as big as the little being that made it, and even better, that brownies made with coconut oil instead of vegetable oil are the BOMB!! Two "bomb" references in one post - tee hee, inadvertently made myself giggle.

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Specializes in Cardiac and OR.

That my teenager would rather eat an entire sleeve of saltines topped with peanut butter than-Heaven forbid- actually cook himself dinner. But, he was willing to bake caramel turtle brownies. At least I got to enjoy those as well:yes:

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That my teenager would rather eat an entire sleeve of saltines topped with peanut butter than-Heaven forbid- actually cook himself dinner.

Me 14 years ago.

And 10 years ago.

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