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1) You don't bother putting on the plastic gown when prepping for a GSW.
2) When the pt complaints about procedures like checking for rectal tone, placement of foley, and large bore IVs, etc, you snarkily respond with a comment along the lines of, "well, it's not gonna hurt as much as your GSW, your stab wound, being set on fire, being struck by that car, etc"
3) When triaging the 15 yoa GSW your first question is, "why weren't you in school?" When the pt explains he was expelled for "fixing to fight" you answer with, "Well then you need a J-O-B. You don't need an education to sweep the floor of constructions sites and contribute to your familly." As the pt lays groaning, grabbing the site of the GSW, no VS assessed.
1. You know that trauma is often a "lifestyle choice."
2. You can walk by a patient (not yours) and pause long enough to say, "I can see tendons - kewl!!"
3. You can name at least one 15-16 year old that you've seen come in w/a GSW - and it's not his first one.
4. You could write a 1000-page book on the myriad ways that ETOH + stupidity = trauma.
......after the "near decapitation/hanging/fall from 3 stories/head cracked like an egg suicide" you got in last night you suddenly have an urge to eat steak and eggs.....
....you voice this and the ENTIRE TEAM agrees......
....you are floated to the fast track area of the ER to help with all the sprains, coughs, etc and suddenly every patient has two large bores and LR hanging.....whoops....
....you find regular ER codes "relaxing"..........
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T14WFLY
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You might be a trauma nurse if?
Fill in the blank. This should be fun and interesting to see what comes up=-)