What is your Nursing Super Power?

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Inspired by the 'Super Senses' thread, and the hilarious responses.....

What is your nursing super power?

Mine is making babies poop. Especially constipated NICU babies on high-cal formula. I've literally bragged about this skill at family functions.

What is your super power?

Mine is making babies poop. Especially constipated NICU babies on high-cal formula. I've literally bragged about this skill at family functions.

I am currently caring for a baby who has been NPO for about a week and a half, and hadn't pooped in about a week.

He just pooped for me not one, but two nights in a row.

I am the baby poop whisperer.

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Specializes in Pediatric Critical Care.
I am currently caring for a baby who has been NPO for about a week and a half, and hadn't pooped in about a week.

He just pooped for me not one, but two nights in a row.

I am the baby poop whisperer.

Not all heroes wear capes.

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

The biggest I guess is that I'm known as a "baby/toddler whisperer"; I get down on their level (not hard since I'm only 4'11"!!) and just apparently have a touch and a face to make them feel comfortable and make them giggle and calm down... parents will say "he/she hasn't let anyone TOUCH them since we've been here, and look at how they are interacting with you!!!" I can't explain it but it always seemed to happen almost every day at my last job. It made me so happy to make them feel safe.

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Specializes in CMSRN.

I am just like Sonnet and Brownbook. And I actually enjoy taking care of them. Sometimes though I would get an assignment where they are all different. I have to speak up then, it may be my superpower but I can't handle them all.

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No coincidence, for sure.

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I believe it becomes your superpower when you declare it so. After that it grows and grows.

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Specializes in Adult MICU/SICU.

Same, except for adults. I can figure out a way to blow anyone's colon regardless of the dose of narcotics they are habitually taking.

It's a gift! :)

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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.

My superpowers are trach care/suctioning and Foley catheter insertion (male and female both). I'm also pretty dang good at giving subcutaneous heparin injections with nary a bruise, evidently.

My Kryptonite is IV insertion. Give me a 90yo man with a prostate the size of a watermelon, and I *will* get your Foley in for you on the first try. But I don't care how huge and visible the vein is, I will NOT be able to start an IV in it.

So my coworkers start my IVs for me, and I start their Foleys for them. Win-win!

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

I'm pretty good with the psych patients/demented patients. I have A LOT of patience.

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

I'm also good at IMs.

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Specializes in Pediatric Critical Care.
Same, except for adults. I can figure out a way to blow anyone's colon regardless of the dose of narcotics they are habitually taking.

It's a gift! :)

You paint a vivid word picture.

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I can open an ampule with one hand.

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