When nurses have bad dreams

[frann]

You have got to hear the dream I had a few weeks ago.

I've worked 10 years in medical nursing. It's the night before I start my new job in Interventional Radiology. Before I wake up, I have this awful dream. I'm at work. taking care of this huge lady. must be 9 feet tall. in her 70's. almost blind, nearly deaf, dementia, strong, trying to get to the bathroom. pulled out her foley, iv on the floor. trying also to get her casts off both of her knees. urineand blood everywhere. oh lord help me.

Music comes on. Time to start my new job.:roll :roll :roll

[tattooednursie, LVN]

Ever since I became a CNA I have been having dreams of work every single night. I have dreams like the buildings are colapsing and I have evacuated all of the residents exept for one so I go in looking for them.

The weirdest dream I have ever had involved me actually getting my work done on time, so I go out back fro a break in the smoking area (and I only smoke when I am really depressed or REALLY stressed, so I hardly ever smoke) and anyways I light a ciggarette that I find on the ground, and I smoke it and I get really dizzy and I pace around outside for a bit then I go in the building, and it looked completely different from my facility. I went into the dining toom, and all my geriatric patients were young again (they were little kids), and all my psych patients were teaching them, as if they were in a school. Then I looked around and each bedroom was a classroom, and then a teacher came out and dragged me into a room and said "Now class, this is Amanda, she is an RN. She used to take care of the pateints here when this was a long term care facility before it burned down, and all of the residents died. It must have been really hard on her. then I looked on the chalk bored in there and it had the names on it of the students, but they were the same as the residnets names. DREAM INTERPETERS PLEASE!!!!

[zudy]

I dreamed once the city had decided to put a heliport on top of my house, and I had to triage ALL the pts and decide what hosp they had to go to . I woke up exhausted.

[Burnt Out, ASN, RN]

Originally posted by nurs4kids

I can't believe i'm going to admit this...

Hubby woke me up one night...torn between panic and excitement...

I was dreaming I was cathing a patient...

His response, "damn, and I thought just once YOU were waking ME for sex!".

:rotfl: :roll That is sooooo funny!!!!!

I will start to drift to sleep and say "Get off of that call light" (of course never said to a patient)! I do this if I have one of those days where the patient had that finger GLUED to the call button (You all know what I am talking about!!!!!)

[Weenurse]

I had a bad dream only last week, (I was'nt loking forward to my shift the next day due to myself being the only permanent member of staff on duty, so probably explains the dream!)

In the dream, I was comming to the end of a very busy night shift and at 06.30 , one by one all of the day staff phoned in sick. I don't know the outcome as my alarm went off at that point. I think it was a bad omen as one nurse didn't turn up, we had an RIP and I only managed to grab 15 minutes break out of 14 hour shift! Oh, I do love my job! can anyone remind me why!??

[Pam I Am]

:imbar

one of the worst dreams (I've had several times) is that I went a full 12 hour shift and didn't realize it until during the dream that there was a patient that I had not checked in on even one time during the whole day. I had totally forgotten him! Or had never gotten or given report on him! That was a terrible feeling!