Why is it? Things nurses do other people can't

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Why is it.......

Nurses can be cleaning a patient up that just had a huge code brown and at the same time be thinking about what to have for lunch?

Anyone else have any quirks that you do in the course of your nursing day that would make normal? people sick?

Pam

Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.
*shudder* Shades of Hannibal Lechter!! I can never think of fava beans anymore without thinking of him!! :lol2:

Or how about that 'nice Chianti'?;)

Specializes in ED.

Sitting here...eating my coveted egg and sausage bisket...reading about other nurses accounts of funky code browns and dressing changes on allnurses.com :lol2: :thankya:

Sitting at home eating dinner watching antomy videos, Discections and sugurys when a friend come in and is grossed out. They wonder how I can be eating.

Specializes in Education, Acute, Med/Surg, Tele, etc.

If it was like yesterday for me, you have suction to NG in one room to set up, code brown in another, paniced family member calling every 5 minutes in the next, and a lady with emisis post TAH SBO in the other...and you rush through the hallways mentally singing "its a hap hap happy day" and wondering what beverage you will want after you get off! LOL!!!!!!! (we nurses voted and it was a whiskey on the rocks kinda day..LOL, yes...we rate the days that way! LOL!!!!!).

Or changing a nasty infected wound and wondering if you took out that spareribs for dinner out of the freezer!

Caring for a TAH and wondering if you remembered to get feminine products ;) for your daughter!

Or if you find it fun to chat with another nurse in the elevator with non-medics about the lastest gross thing you encountered...in detail! LOL!

Code in a room and all you can think about is what you need to do once you get home!

Or my fav...assessing your gf/bf veins on a date!

Or my fav...assessing your gf/bf veins on a date!

HAHA - or the guy in front of you at the grocery store!!:lol2:

Specializes in Education, Acute, Med/Surg, Tele, etc.

Or nurses and their family...always check the bowel after a BM to make sure it does have occult blood...by habit! LOL!!!!!!

My friends have sooooo gotten use to hubby and I talking about disfigurement/codes/gross stuff at the dinner table they are becoming quite the medics themseves! LOL!

Nurses, the only parents with kids that can hold c-spine, do CBG's, give insulin shots and name every part of the anatomy with a straight face at the age of 4!

can say SOB and not mean something bad!

can look at a person complaining of pain from a splinter and say with a straight face "oh you baby..last week I saw....." LOL!

won't send their family to the ER, or let the kids stay home sick unless blood is shooting from somewhere is shouldn't...and even question that!

have the largest and best first aide kits known to mankind...in their home and car!!!!

carry cpr masks at all times!

know 390 excuses for not making dinner or cleaning the house on days off!

can fall asleep standing up!

knows the TRUE meaning of running your bottom off!

can be in the middle of a passionate kiss and be thinking...oh great intubation position!

can actually technically say...'you are full of ****' and may be able to provide test results to prove it!

it is not a probelm discussing constipation treament options with friends and family, even at a dinner party!!!

run from elderly people in long shopping lines because they may code or fall!

duck when they drive past a accident driving to work cause they know the managment won't understand if you are late!

flash a badge or license at just the right time if pulled over for a speeding ticket! LOL!

have a fully stocked tackle kit for Christmas from suture kits and what not for the fisherman in your life

duct tape? No silk does better!

Debate putting in an IV on yourself when hung over or sick!

Think of taking home a Oxygen tank for those SOB times, or a nebulizer!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!

sign your checks with RN at the end by habbit!

screen your calls like crazy because it either is a loved one with a medical question, or work calling you in!

LOL... What's funny is when you have a disabled child at home you already have an O2 tank, nebulizer, Gtube pump, hospital bed, hoyer lift... and more.

Specializes in Nursing assistant.

wow, this makes me feel normal. What a nice feeling.

Specializes in Operating room Scrubbing, Anesthetics,.

Was standing in OR few weeks back, breaking pieces of bone graft up, thinking about the barbeque I would be having that night. Or watching a educational dvd on hip replacements while cooking dinner.. my friends were horrified..:rolleyes:

Have also found myself expounding to patients on how beautiful and pink their granulating bedsores were.. have you ever commented on how beautifull an organ(liver,pancreas,gallbladder) looked, and meening it sincerely? Ohh man I have it bad..

Specializes in LTC, office.

Smelling the bovie while assisting in a minor surgical procedure and thinking roast chicken would taste good.

Having a coworker compare the key lime pie yogurt you are eating to drainage from an infected wound, thinking nothing of it and continue to eat it.

Specializes in Med-Surg/Peds/O.R./Legal/cardiology.

Looking at the tendons and fascia in a fried chicken thigh. (OR nurse)

ebear

My child has a feeding tube. I remember sitting at lunch one time with another mom of a tube-fed child. We were talking about how to check for residuals and describing what we have pulled up from our kiddos, how to handle bleeding diaper rashes and granuation tissue. lol!

My dd currently has a beautiful stoma-- no granulation tissue or crusties. I was so proud of it I posted a photo of it on a tube-feeding support board. And the best part was, everyone ooohed and ahhhed and asked me what I was doing so right to get it to look so great.

My dh thinks I'm nuts.

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