wow...this is my JOB!

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Have you ever had one of those moments where you just find yourself shaking your head and thinking...wow, people have to do this!

It kind of hit me as I was trimming the hair from someone's, ahem, medial gluteal fold the other day so that a bandage would stick. Wow, this is my job! I almost had to stop myself from laughing. Someone's gotta do it, right?

I have done the leeches twice. I actually did them for one nurse who was newly pregnant and got that patient, and she just could not bring herself to handle them without almost vomiting. So every couple of hours I got to put one on her patient. And then yes, when they come off and escape, they do indeed leave bloody trails so you know where then went.

A couple of weeks ago I had to dilate the rectum of a baby. It was ordered Q12H. I was thinking as I was doing it, wow this is not something I ever imagined would be part of my job!

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Some one's gotta be the grump, may as well be me:

15 to 20 years from now: "Someone's gotta do it, right? But why me? College degree and 20 years on the job ... here I am on Christmas Eve .... *sigh* :banghead: "

Right?

Right! I agree! And wiping someone's butt on Christmas Eve, too.

I have had to work either the day before or the day of Christmas or Thanksgiving for the last 3 years. And, we only get paid for the actual holiday part of that night shift. So when I worked night before Thanksgiving I only got paid holiday rate from 0000-0700 on Thanksgiving. When I worked Christmas night I only got paid from 1900 to 2359.

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

What a specialty you have! :lol2: Enjoy :roflmao:

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

I think that too but its usually "They trust me with all this electricity!"

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I had a patient ASK me to manually disimpact her this morning...yea put the kibosh to that quickly!

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Specializes in Med/surg, Quality & Risk.

Manually disimpacting a 500 pound woman....sticking my gloved fingers into a dialysis fistula for an hour so it stopped bleeding....chipping dog feces out from under toenails with a straw.... all of these things preferable to the law.

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We have a patient who's a really gassy fella, but due to spina bifida isn't able to, ahem, decompress himself. Two to four times a day we go in and manually help him fart. That's quite an experience.

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We have a patient who's a really gassy fella but due to spina bifida isn't able to, ahem, decompress himself. Two to four times a day we go in and manually help him fart. That's quite an experience.[/quote']

How does that work??

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Mental Health.
We have a patient who's a really gassy fella, but due to spina bifida isn't able to, ahem, decompress himself. Two to four times a day we go in and manually help him fart. That's quite an experience.

Harris flush?

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No, he just lies down on his side, we glove up and lube up...one finger dilates the anal opening while we apply pressure to his belly and man, it works. It literally blows your hair back.

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
No, he just lies down on his side, we glove up and lube up...one finger dilates the anal opening while we apply pressure to his belly and man, it works. It literally blows your hair back.
Woo Hoo! Now that's a blast of a job.:roflmao:
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No, he just lies down on his side, we glove up and lube up...one finger dilates the anal opening while we apply pressure to his belly and man, it works. It literally blows your hair back.[/quote

Wow!

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