Please share when your intuition has saved or helped a patient or when has your intuition helped in other areas of your life?
What is intuition? How would you describe it? How could others develop theirs?
Have you ever felt what your patient is feeling? Chest pain when they have chest pain? etc. Are you too empathic? If so, how do you manage it, so it doesn't disempower you?
Or is intuition really experience along with knowledge?
My intuition and experience has saved the day many a time,but is not always appreciated. I work for hospice doing home care,and so many times I have called the on call nurse,and told them something wasnt right. My nurses have now come to appreciate what I call FYI phone calls. Several of the nurses call me Dr Robyn,because of this instinct. I have a 99% accuracy when it comes to diagnosing UTI s before the urine test. I have always had this intuition and I have learned to listen to it. I am not a psychic in the sense of seeing the future,but I sense when things arent right or will happen. Not a true 6 th sense but like and extra 1/2 sense.
My intuition and experience has saved the day many a time,but is not always appreciated. I work for hospice doing home care,and so many times I have called the on call nurse,and told them something wasnt right. My nurses have now come to appreciate what I call FYI phone calls. Several of the nurses call me Dr Robyn,because of this instinct. I have a 99% accuracy when it comes to diagnosing UTI s before the urine test. I have always had this intuition and I have learned to listen to it. I am not a psychic in the sense of seeing the future,but I sense when things arent right or will happen. Not a true 6 th sense but like and extra 1/2 sense.
Did you have this as a child? Can you talk about what it was like throughout your life? Was it encouraged when you were a kid? Was your Mom intuitive? What helped you learn to listen to it? Is it a feeling, a thought, how do you know it is your intuition vs just a thought?
I think it far more than an extra 1/2 sense!! Thanks for sharing!!
My intuition and experience has saved the day many a time,but is not always appreciated. I work for hospice doing home care,and so many times I have called the on call nurse,and told them something wasnt right. My nurses have now come to appreciate what I call FYI phone calls. Several of the nurses call me Dr Robyn,because of this instinct. I have a 99% accuracy when it comes to diagnosing UTI s before the urine test. I have always had this intuition and I have learned to listen to it. I am not a psychic in the sense of seeing the future,but I sense when things arent right or will happen. Not a true 6 th sense but like and extra 1/2 sense.
Have you ever heard of a "medical intuitive"? This is an amazing gift!!! Intuition is like a muscle..the more you work with it and trust it, the stronger it becomes. Good for you, "Dr. Robyn"!!
The only thing I remember for sure was when I was 14,I was supposed to go babysitting,and for some reason I felt my gut instinct telling me to stay home,so I got one of my friends to babysit where I was supposed to.So I am upstairs reading and all of a sudden I heard my parents fighting loudly.all of a suuden I heard a thump and my father calling my name.My mother was on the floor unconscious. She had had a minor stroke. called 911 .This was 27 yrs ago and she is still alive and kicking to this day. I just listen to my gut instinct.
The only thing I remember for sure was when I was 14,I was supposed to go babysitting,and for some reason I felt my gut instinct telling me to stay home,so I got one of my friends to babysit where I was supposed to.So I am upstairs reading and all of a sudden I heard my parents fighting loudly.all of a suuden I heard a thump and my father calling my name.My mother was on the floor unconscious. She had had a minor stroke. called 911 .This was 27 yrs ago and she is still alive and kicking to this day. I just listen to my gut instinct.
I've been a nurse for 31 years and can't tell you the number of times my intuition has saved my practice. I think, after all this time, if I had to say what it is.... it's like someone speaks to me in my head. No words, just "Go check this " and it comes out of the blue, unrelated to whatever train (or trains) of thought are occupying my head @ the time. It has a special quality. And I do believe it's my Angel.
Another thing I have experienced, is to clear myself and ask to be a channel for whatever the patient's outcome is to be, to expidite that. And to , before the fact, accept it. It's a sort of "thy will, not mine" mindset. It really gives me clarity for the task ahead, and helps me organize my response, especially in those code situations.
Specializes in Cardiac care/Ortho/LTC/Education/Psych.
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I could say a lot of these stories and trust me I DO believe in it. I know for sure that 3 times I did saved lives of my patients telling to docs something is wrong And of course they would ask you for Vital signs >>) I had to yell on phone to one doc : do not ask me for a vital signs come and check this person for God sake .. ( Vital signs were good pt bled internally and was compensating!)Another time , I did not like what resident said as a reason for a pain of my patient so I called his primary and again had to say: I FEEL IT SIR! Please come check it for your self or send somebody else...( It was PE !)
Yes, problem is people think you are weird or you are afraid to admit you feel something , but once you accept it , not so bad friend that makes my hair goes up.
There's been several times I walked into a room that was out of my way, just because, and found a patient in need.
A couple of times I've had patient in abdominal pain that the nurses and docs poo pooed as the patient being whiney and drug seeking when I just knew it was more. Both were perferations.
I was helping another nurse with her patient who had just come back from hemodialysis who was very sleepy. Too sleepy, we were having to shake him to keep him breathing. I had no idea of this person's history, had never seen him before. He had not been taking any strong pain meds, or anything unusual medication wise, but I had this little intuitive voice in my head say-- "Narcan." It truly didn't even look like narcan would be indicated looking at the medication sheet of this patient, and at the time I wasn't very familiar with it, but we called the nephrologist who said "give him Narcan" and he woke right up.
I ponder on this occasionally, it truly was an odd thing.
I had a pt who was in a bad way,CVA, 70s, very doom and gloom guy and family (worry about anything but SO supportive-never seen the like since-always had a family member stay overnite etc, 8 kids, wife) on rehab a long time. To make long story short, I havent been nurse very long 2.5 yrs. but I remember another RN had this pt with a AAA, and not a surgical candidate. One day he slipped out of his chair and while getting him up I saw a rigid vertical bulge in his abdomen-to the left of his well midline/bellybutton and I remember thinking, is that from the AAA? Well back to my pt he had been complaining of stomach pain, and was very pale, They did some diagnostic and I remember it said there was a mass there so many millimeters long but that isnt why they did the diagnostic. Why did they do it...oh I think he had BAD backpain so they were checking that---YES he had disc probs. I remember asking the doc about it and whether I should give coumadin (maybe thinking it was a AAA) and he had low RBCs? and he said no go ahead and give it (I WORRIED ABOUT BLEEDING). I asked him about it again later, thinking maybe he didn't read the rpt closely since that isnt what they were looking for ( IAM SORRY - I CANT REMEMBER MOST OF IT ALL) anyway again he said no go ahead. ANYWAY days later pt went home, the next day came into ER, BP plummeted, very pale, abd hurting, and bleeding. He died. Now I have another pt currently with that same bulge when his intra-abd pressure rises> DOES ANYONE HAVE AN IDEA IF THE BULGE IS INDICATIVE OF AAA? This pt I have now is 92,and not surgical candidate but the same bulge is there and nor was the other pt I had, I just wonder if the Doc knew it was there but didn't want the family to worry about a ticking time bomb (they were very very 'get in here now to check his .......fill in the blank-and I am wondering if he felt telling the family would just interfere in their last days together, with worrying-instead he sent him home to be with his family? ANYWAY HAS ANYONE ELSE SEEN A BULGE LIKE THAT? SHOULD I WORRY ? SORRY JUST GOT OFF WORK-MY WRITING IS POOR>THAT IS my INTUITION WORKING OVERTIME NOW!!!!! :monkeydance:
I've learned to pay attention to that weird feeling that tells me to call the doc or wait on giving a med, or check on that patient down the hall. It's happened too many times for me to count.
Once I was charting at the desk and for some reason felt the need to go walk down the hall. Good thing I checked all the rooms as I passed because one patient (who was not mine), was getting OOB. I knew this patient was confused, so fearing that she might become combative, I called the tech so we could get the patient back to bed.
As soon as the patient lay down, she "died." She became unresponsive and I could not get a pulse. However, she remained paced to the monitor. We started compressions even though she maintained perfect little complexes on the monitors, according to the monitor tech.
She was successfully revived and sent to the Unit. But we never would've known there was a problem until someone actually visualized her, because the monitor didn't give us any clues with this one.
I've been a nurse for 31 years and can't tell you the number of times my intuition has saved my practice. I think, after all this time, if I had to say what it is.... it's like someone speaks to me in my head. No words, just "Go check this " and it comes out of the blue, unrelated to whatever train (or trains) of thought are occupying my head @ the time. It has a special quality. And I do believe it's my Angel.
Another thing I have experienced, is to clear myself and ask to be a channel for whatever the patient's outcome is to be, to expidite that. And to , before the fact, accept it. It's a sort of "thy will, not mine" mindset. It really gives me clarity for the task ahead, and helps me organize my response, especially in those code situations.
Wow, I love your philosophy!! To "be a channel for whatever the patient's outcome is to be"!! that is very cool!! How did you come to that approach? Do you remember? Hey, I totally believe in angels!!
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My intuition and experience has saved the day many a time,but is not always appreciated. I work for hospice doing home care,and so many times I have called the on call nurse,and told them something wasnt right. My nurses have now come to appreciate what I call FYI phone calls. Several of the nurses call me Dr Robyn,because of this instinct. I have a 99% accuracy when it comes to diagnosing UTI s before the urine test. I have always had this intuition and I have learned to listen to it. I am not a psychic in the sense of seeing the future,but I sense when things arent right or will happen. Not a true 6 th sense but like and extra 1/2 sense.