1. I've decided to keep a tally of most critical labs in one admission, starting today (not including renal failure patients): hgb, glucose, potassium, chloride, PT and INR
2. Farawyn's what I learned thread was way cooler than mine are.
Adding an 80s song makes any thread way cooler.
3. Don't trust a 0600 portable chest X-ray to tell you if pulling a chest tube at 1600 is a good idea. It really sucks to tell someone they have a pneumo still.
4. If someone has q4h benzos and opiates, bring both when they ask for one because they'll just ask for the other after you've already run to the med room twice for them.
5. When someone's paracentesis site is still actively dripping rather steadily, it makes me want to squeeze that sucker and see how far I can shoot the fluid out.
6. This week, it actually was sarcoidosis.
7. I know what sarcoidosis is now.
Sarcoidosis sucks.
8. Doctors really need to stop saying, "we're going to go ahead and discharge you," without adding, "this afternoon", especially when they know full well they won't be putting in discharges anytime soon.
9. I think I've realized that the best docs we have actually enjoy my unit the best because they chart there.
I guess because this is my second time taking it I just want to be done. The first time I took micro the professor was ridiculously difficult, I don't know how I passed but I did with a C. Not proud but I still passed.
Ah see I loved my professor and the lab teacher, he was so cute lol.
It was his first semester teaching. He was so nervous but so giddy at the same time. It was awesome.
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Ah see I loved my professor and the lab teacher, he was so cute lol.
It was his first semester teaching. He was so nervous but so giddy at the same time. It was awesome.
I'm jealous! Why didn't you share? I've never had a new or cute professor. I've always had old professors. Sometimes they were good, other times they were grouchy. Once I had an awesome gay A&P professor. But then he moved to California.
Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
I have learned that even though I love Trazadone because it puts me into a coma like sleep, it makes me feel like a zombie all day. It's only 11 here in Texas & I want a nap. Oh how I want a nap.
Like it had me second guessing my career choice. But our microscopes at school were less than stellar so it turned me off.
When I took micro I told the professor (a retired country veterinarian called Doc) that if I'd taken his class 10 years before I'd have ended up a microbiologist. It was all very sciencey, with lab tests that change color and investigating unknown samples.
And the "Is there something in the air?" thread is closed. Seriously?
I think I'm going to take a break from posting for awhile. It's getting weird in here.
Yeah I'm not sure what happened there...perhaps my inner snark was showing too much? But I think we need a place to vent about some of the silliness and ridiculous stuff we encounter here....
I learned that digging up plants to divide and transplant elsewhere is an effective way to get rid of excess emotional energy. Got some crappy stuff going on personally and it was nice to put my angst to good use.
The first time I took micro the professor was ridiculously difficult, I don't know how I passed but I did with a C. Not proud but I still passed.
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Every thread I've gone to this morning has been... Interrupted by a disagreement that won't end.