You Know You've Had A Hectic Shift/Day At Work

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1. You reach behind your ear for your pen and pull out a rectal thermometer.

2. You begin to slip off your shoes to relax, and find your OR booties still on.

3. You go to a restaurant, order your meal, go to the bathroom, look in the mirror, and see your fancy OR hat still on your head.

4. You reach for your stethescope, and pull a cannula off of your neck.

5. You reach for your wallet or purse and pull out a medical kit you used on a patient.

Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

You've been asleep for all of 90 minutes after a long 12 hour night shift, and wake up to call the charge nurse to tell her there was 900 cc of urine in that Foley you forgot to empty and she'd better empty it before it overflows.

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Oh My God!! I thought I was the only one who hear those vent and o2 sat alarms in my sleep!!

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Specializes in ICU, Telemetry.

When you come home, and stand in front of the door trying to open it with the car fob, wondering why the door won't unlock.

When you find yourself halfway down the hall, dragging your CPAP behind you like a robotic tail, all because the gas truck is backing down the driveway to fill up the LP tank doing the "beep...beep...beep" combined with the driver's music makes you think it's a vent alarm..."buh duh beep beep ...."

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Specializes in LTC.

When you go out to your car the next morning and find a note from your neighbor saying " the way you parked is ridiculos" !

Well, after a hectic shift what do you expect ???? All I wanted to do is get between those two white lines... thats it.

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

You have a nightmare about having gone to work naked, everyone is staring at you, and you have no place to hide.

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After a night shift - at every red light you start day dreaming of a big white fluffy bed with heaps of pillows and fluffy down comforters - never wanted to indulge too much in case I actually fell asleep!

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Specializes in ICU.
After a night shift - at every red light you start day dreaming of a big white fluffy bed with heaps of pillows and fluffy down comforters - never wanted to indulge too much in case I actually fell asleep!

Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer gets a 2nd job and falls asleep on the way home. :lol_hitti

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Specializes in med/surg , hospice and oncology.
you sign your kids homework S JACKSON LPN

Been there, done that many times!:D

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Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.

woke up drenched in sweat, thinking i fell asleep at the nurses' station, remember i needed to get vitals on mrs.___, and begin to count my husband's resps. ... or, worse yet, i can't hear:omy: him breathing at all.

kathy

sharpeimom:paw::paw:

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
woke up drenched in sweat, thinking i fell asleep at the nurses' station, remember i needed to get vitals on mrs.___, and begin to count my husband's resps. ... or, worse yet, i can't hear:omy: him breathing at all.

kathy

sharpeimom:paw::paw:

:eek: horrors!!!!!
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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

things got ya down.?

well then, consider these.....

in a hospital's intensive care unit,

patients always died in the same bed,

on sunday morning, at about 11:00am,

regardless of their medical condition.

this puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something

to do with the super natural.

no one could solve the mystery as to why

the deaths occurred around 11:00am sunday, so a worldwide team of experts was assembled to investigate the

cause of the incidents.

the next sunday morning,

a few minutes before 11:00am

all of the doctors and nurses nervously

waited outside the ward to

see for themselves what the

terrible phenomenon was all about.

some were holding wooden crosses,

prayer books, and other holy objects

to ward off the evil spirits.

just when the clock struck 11:00,

'pookie' johnson,

the part-time sunday sweeper,

entered the ward and unplugged the life support system so he could

use the vacuum cleaner.

:smokin:

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Specializes in LTC, Subacute Rehab.

Whenever I use earplugs while sleeping, I wake up disoriented because there are no familiar sounds. One morning, I was dreaming (nightmaring?) about being the only nurse for an entire ICU (and I have never worked in the ICU!), when I heard a vent alarm... I spent five or ten minutes groping around for the stupid thing, couldn't find it... then my husband came in to wake me up and turn off my alarm clock :eek: In my defense, this was heading into the last shift of 3 12s and an 8!

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