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?
That is very, very cool. Death isn't always the enemy it is made out to be in the hospital environment. I really like that, the clearing yourself for their experience. It is far from a cop out, it is honoring what is happening in that person's experience, at that time, is that right? It is such an incredibly respectful way of being with your patients. I hope you don't mind if I use it? I wish I could take all the posters on this thread and have us all write a book about this. It would be very powerful about the experience of nursing. Don't you think?
Yes, it's honoring their experience. The longer I'm a nurse, the more I realize that Life is my religion. You don't have to look for it, it was there all along. I feel honored to be a part of it the way I am. And what an increadible group of people I get to work with!
Another nurse and I heard a "code" called for Nuclear Medicine. We said 'who do we have that's for NM today."
Ahhh the lady in 23 was to go to NM later in the day. We went in her room and she was there, BUT NOT RESPONSIVE and NOT Breathing.
Started CPR and called the code. No one came. Called again....no one came. We were almost exhausted when someone came. It seems that the beepers going off twice in a few seconds made people think it was a duplicate call. That was before voice beepers.
We were exhaustd but our lady made it. Something told us to go check on the lady in 23.
I believe this is serendipity (sp?).... and it happens alot. It's another way for them (our angels) to get your attention. Whatever works!
wow, another incredible story. i think these stories would make a great book!!! have you had other intuitive experiences?
yes i started having them in my early teens. sometimes i have dreams about certain things. i'll tell my mom or husband. once in awhile when i see something on the news like a missing child or something i have a dream about where they are. once there were these two childern that were killed by their father and their bodies were disposed of somewhere in ohio. i dreamt of what the place looked like. when i woke up i told my husband. when they showed where the eventually found the children the place looked like i had dreamt.
another thing that happened recently was i kept hearing in my head a girls name from grade school. she had moved away in the thrid grade and i had probably not thought about her since. i kept hearing the name over and over again like nagging me. i was reading the paper a day or so later still repeating the name in my head and there was her sisters death notice.
my grandfather who has since passed always told me to trust my instinct. (btw is was his wife that i had to call 911 on) i was very very close to him. when i would have the dreams or weird feelings he was the only one i would ever tell.
yes i started having them in my early teens. sometimes i have dreams about certain things. i'll tell my mom or husband. once in awhile when i see something on the news like a missing child or something i have a dream about where they are. once there were these two childern that were killed by their father and their bodies were disposed of somewhere in ohio. i dreamt of what the place looked like. when i woke up i told my husband. when they showed where the eventually found the children the place looked like i had dreamt.
another thing that happened recently was i kept hearing in my head a girls name from grade school. she had moved away in the thrid grade and i had probably not thought about her since. i kept hearing the name over and over again like nagging me. i was reading the paper a day or so later still repeating the name in my head and there was her sisters death notice.
my grandfather who has since passed always told me to trust my instinct. (btw is was his wife that i had to call 911 on) i was very very close to him. when i would have the dreams or weird feelings he was the only one i would ever tell.
that is truly amazing. you have an incredible gift!! have you ever thought of developing it further, intentionally? that is so cool that it was your grandfather that encouraged you to listen to your instinct! it seems that it is often a mother or female relative who encourages that inner voice. thanks so much for sharing. very cool.
I dont believe in intuition. Intuition is only the voice of Knowledge and experience recalled.
There is the expert nurse. The one who has so much experience that they no longer have a thought process. They don't break down their response. They just react. And I have heard this called intuition. This is not what I'm talking about. Experience and knowledge doesen't translate to room numbers and names. It's something else.
Yes, it's honoring their experience. The longer I'm a nurse, the more I realize that Life is my religion. You don't have to look for it, it was there all along. I feel honored to be a part of it the way I am. And what an increadible group of people I get to work with!
Yes, I know what you are saying, it happens all around you all the time. All the magic and process and experience, it is all right there. It is right in front of your face!!! Being engaged in it....because you already are. And I love how you said, being a channel for the other person's experience...almost observing rather than interfering.
Has anyone ever had an expierence w/ "negative" energy? You know, where all your equipment is doind wierd things, you have to reboot the computer, and you have 60 cycle hum in your EKG baseline for no apparent reason? Everything is just alarming, and not making sense? And the overall effect of that is, it distracts you from your patient and your purpose. Sometimes it's just you, sometimes you can see it skipping through the pod... This baby bradies and tries to die, then the next one, then the one over there..... Any thoughts? It's like a flurry of bad stuff happening. Much different than those days you are organized, and you and your pt's and their families are all on the same page and everything is peaceful.
Yes, sometimes the unit is in chaos!! This happened my last shift, where it was change of shift and as we came on the evening shift said, go home now when you have the chance it has been crazy around here!! The monitors were alarming, pts were crying out in pain, and it seemed that we all needed to call the Docs on lab results or some odd change in condition. But you know, when that group of nurses left, and their collective "energy" went with them, things began to settle down. There was a palpable difference. What is that about?? Very weird and interesting stuff.
Recently in the past couple of months, I have had 2 different patients who according to the Docs had basically no hope of pulling through. They both were in comas and to be honest with you if you looked at their labs and their diagnostic exams it WAS pretty hopeless for both.
The family was absolutely besides themselves, suffering and praying at the bedside. Ordinarily, like all of us, I try to give updates on the pt's status, being honest and make the pt as comfortable as possible and be sympathetic and supportive to the family.
Well, something told me in my gut, that the first pt, I'm speaking of, just wasn't ready to "go home". Honest to God, there was NO clinical indications of this. Of course, I didn't give the family any false hope, because I didn't know if I could trust that feeling or not. But one of the sons asked me point blank what I thought, I did say, I don't want to give you ANY false hope, but I do believe there is room for some hope. That was enough for the son and to be honest, I was quite disturbed by my response, thinking I may cause more confusion and pain for the son. But my gut kept telling me, he is going to wake up!! And he did!!!!! The family was so joyous it was unbelievable.
And again, this last weekend the same thing happened. Another gentleman did the same thing, woke up from a coma to a family who was told he would not. No one asked me point blank if I thought he would get better, so I didn't go through the quandary of what to say, but I "knew" he would wake up, and he did.
I know I have to be careful with this...but along with that gut feeling when you know someone is going south, it is kinda nice to have it the other way around as well!!!!
On more than 1 occasion, I have smelled ozone, or the smell of burnt electrical wiring when pt's are in an acutely psychotic state. So when I get a whiff, I know they're going south (not that there's anything wrong with the south!).
I had a small one the other day. We have a very restless resident that was out like a light so we put him to bed and placed the usual wedges, body pillows and mats to the floor because he falls alot. He started snoring right away so about 15 minutes later I was charting when I felt the need to check on him and sure enough he was sitting straight up in bed getting ready to topple over onto the floor. Whew!!! my intuition saved all those neuro checks.:w00t:
my intuition is still alive and well. I have been taking care of this lady Ruth,for the last 9 months,and for the past week or so she had been declining,but slowly ( end stage cardiac) A while back I had promised her grandaughter that if I saw changes,or had any concerns,to call her. Friday night I kept getting this gut instinct feeling to call her,so I did. There was nothing I could put my finger on,she just wasnt right. Saturday am the grandaughter came over and spent the day with her. when I went back that evening about 6pm,I told the granddaughter she had better get the rest of the family.Everyone was there by 8pm,Ruth was alert and talking to everyone,I was beginning to doubt my sanity.about 9 she falls asleep. At 915 I check on her and she had passed away. The way she wanted to at home with her family around her. thank you 6th sense.
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Yes, it's honoring their experience. The longer I'm a nurse, the more I realize that Life is my religion. You don't have to look for it, it was there all along. I feel honored to be a part of it the way I am. And what an increadible group of people I get to work with!