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You know you've been a nurse too long when you can't enjoy a movie because of the half minute of CPR compressions only being given at about 50 per minute, with bent arms and there's a flat line on the monitor DURING the compressions. Oh, and it's the obstetrician doing the compressions.
Any time you sign your name you automatically put "RN" & the date/time after it, especially when tired after a long shift, I did this at the DMV and had to do it over.
Here in L.A., my co workers and I used to try and guess which SSRI/NRI/benzo the plastic-surgeried ladies we saw on the street were on, "she totally has Zoloft face. OMG, that blonde one has Xanax eyes. Lookit, Paxil face AND fresh Botox!"
Carry box of gloves in car in case of Good Samaritan situation. And I sometimes try to log on my computer at home with my work logon.
Any time you sign your name you automatically put "RN" & the date/time after it, especially when tired after a long shift, I did this at the DMV and had to do it over.Carry box of gloves in car in case of Good Samaritan situation. And I sometimes try to log on my computer at home with my work logon.
OMG, I have done all that, have a box of gloves and a face/mouth guard in case I need to do CPR somewhere. LOL
You scream at the TV "Pull the d@mned side rails up!" every time a hospital scene is played.
I scream at the TV all the time! It must drive my hubby crazy. Ha ha.
Bedrails down, inaccurate details, Drs shouting orders while nurses scurry away to do their bidding, and over-sexualization of female nurses drive me nuts!
OCNRN63, RN
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Or you see the "doctor" do a precordial thump so hard the patient needs to have his sternum repaired.