What do I mean obsession? Well, the stuff that interests you the most with nursing, the stuff that you are compulsive about, etc.
My nursing obsession are bowel movements. My patients better be gettin' rid of the brown stuff or I will be questioning it all day! During patient teaching, regardless of the subject, I ALWAYS talk about the importance of fibre.
Side note: the inspiration of this thread stems from this big bowl of strawberry All-Bran I'm eating.
Don't take this the wrong way, but before I started working in the mental health clinic, I got my adrenaline rush when a security code was called because you just never knew what the heck is going to happen. I still get that feeling when someone comes into the clinic and you just KNOW they're going to flip out and you'll end up having to call the cops.
I totally adore psych nursing because I love the brain and the personality...how it functions normally AND what happens when it doesn't function like it's supposed to.
I am also funny about the AIMS test...sometimes I get a patient who's been taking Thorazine or Risperdal for over a YEAR and has never had an AIMS done!
When I worked med/surg, I was funny about lines being labeled. I was also funny about making sure that people who COULD get out of bed DID get out of bed.
i am also funny about the aims test...sometimes i get a patient who's been taking thorazine or risperdal for over a year and has never had an aims done!
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please educate this home health nurse on an "aims", pretty please???
i have a bi-polar pt w/hx conversion disorder (we are there for out of control diabetes) and she is on risperdal--help a sister out here, and learn me real good!! thanks!!
Specializes in LTC/Rehab,Med/Surg, OB/GYN, Ortho, Neuro.
Please educate this Home Health nurse on an "AIMS", pretty please???
I have a bi-polar pt w/hx conversion disorder (we are there for out of control diabetes) and she is on Risperdal--help a sister out here, and learn me real good!! Thanks!!
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Hehe... where to start.
1. Flushing IV lines. There is nothing worse than coming on shift to a SL TLSC and it's sluggish as all get out. Come on, a little NS can work wonders.
2. Starting IVs. As others have said, it's a great feeling to get the tough ones.
3. Dressing changes. Odd as it may seem, I love doing those now. I work in a facility where dsg changes are done by wound care team, so I rarely get to see the wounds. Makes me feel bad when I'm getting report and being told what it looks like, but I rarely get to see first hand.
4. Organizing med carts and med room. Oh, that is probably what I'm most OCD about. Drives me nuts to see things all strewn about.
5. Love calling the difficult docs. Finally developed a really great backbone within the past year.
6. ROM exercises. Really surprises me how little this gets done in some places, or how some nurses I've worked w/ say "That's PTs job". There's a great satisfaction (even better than starting the difficult IVs) when you see the pt's wiggling and moving parts better than the previous week.
Glad I am not alone.... can't stand clutter:icon_roll drives me wild when I hit the floor and the desk looks like a tornado came thru!!! When you are finished with a chart.... PUT IT AWAY!!!
Also, since I work LTC, resident closets that become dumping grounds for the extra linens/pt gowns that get brought into the room.... if you didn't use it, put it in the laundry (and don't bring so much next time LOL)
I too can't stand tangles cords... how is mrs smith supposed to answer the phone if it is tangled in the call bell, bed controls and heaven knows what else....
Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.
great thread!
i am obsessed with my patients' pee. i need to know how much, how often, what it looks like, what's in it...i just have a urine issue, i guess! i also (this is kinda sick) sort of like cathing patients. okay, i do like it. that way i can actually observe it at its finest! i enjoy hanging bolusus to encourage urination. and, in that respect, i am anal about documenting when i clear my pumps. to the point that i was known for it.
In home health now, but while reading this I agreed about lab draws, labeling lines, untangling cords, and hanging piggybacks. And then my obsession came to me....a good DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS patient. Always changing the fluids, tons of ABG draws/Dsticks every hour. Love love love it! When we would do charge report at the beginning of the shift I would always take the DKAs and most people didn't want them anyway b/c you really never get a break....but that's my favorite!
I can't stand when other people write in the times on my partogram or anywhere on my patient's delivery record...I'm a handwriting freak! Most of my coworkers are aware of this and know not to do it!
I must keep my workplaces neat and uncluttered, and unfolded fetal monitoring paper gives me the heebie jeebies...charts must be neat and tidy and in order...
Cords. I have to untangle cords. It drives me crazy.
haha..me too! I have to label them all too esp if they are getting many lines going in all different ports etc....drives me crazy when things are all twisted and tangled.
I love getting called to the ED and peds floors to start tough IVs. There's an adrenaline rush that comes with getting an IV in a sick kid that everyone from the nurse to the attending to the IV team has stuck and missed, and you get it on the first shot.
The poor resident is thanking you with awe and tears in his eyes, since he won't get his tail whooped for having to bother his attending to place a central line, and the attending is shaking your hand and saying you prevented a kid from getting an intraosseous placed.
I practically float out of the room when stuff like that happens.
:bowingpur:yeah: Wow...that's a good one....you are lucky to have such a great skill when it's need most!!!
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Don't take this the wrong way, but before I started working in the mental health clinic, I got my adrenaline rush when a security code was called because you just never knew what the heck is going to happen. I still get that feeling when someone comes into the clinic and you just KNOW they're going to flip out and you'll end up having to call the cops.
I totally adore psych nursing because I love the brain and the personality...how it functions normally AND what happens when it doesn't function like it's supposed to.
I am also funny about the AIMS test...sometimes I get a patient who's been taking Thorazine or Risperdal for over a YEAR and has never had an AIMS done!
When I worked med/surg, I was funny about lines being labeled. I was also funny about making sure that people who COULD get out of bed DID get out of bed.