May 2013
10 posts
Stuck at work when the world has a snow day and...
Taking a break on night shift
Those days when "I don't want to know" seems to go...
When good people keep coming in with horrible...
Reorientation
When a patient starts to complain about every...
When you are at work and you realize that your...
I’m like…
and they’re like…
That time I tried to help the person pick up their...
Midsummer when the AC is cranked up...
Admission risk screen
Yep, just don’t expect to get to pee by yourself anymore.
October 2012
2 posts
When you exaggerate the awfulness of a normal day...
When patients use food tray items as urine storage...
When someone is giving you a really long answer to...
“What is the patient’s diet?”
”..well you see, when he went to OR…”
When my patient yelled at me because I never...
I thought it was understod when I said, “All you need to do is urinate and then you can go home” that you would tell me when you felt the urge. Not wait for me to ask if you have the urge.
This really could not be more true.
The interns to the medical students
September 2012
71 posts
When you show up for work and you aren't scheduled
When I ask a patient which nurse told them that
Just another day at the office
When patients tell me I remind them of someone
They meant it as a compliment, right?
When you are too lazy to use the lift equipment
A much celebrated foley insertion with the highest...
My favorite dementia personalities :)
When every battle is an uphill battle
When a patient asks you to make sure you guard their, “$300 outfit” while they are in the OR.
Me: Why did you wear a $300 outfit to the hospital for a scheduled surgery?
Patient: Well I couldn’t leave it at home! Something might happen to it!
Holding a grudge against the person who took your...
After a bad day
There is something about your relationship with a meal when other people just don’t understand
When someone steals your dynamap when you are...
Fighting for equipment. Just another demeaning part of life as a nurse.
When a doctor makes the patient apologize to me
It’s just insulting that the doctor tells them to apologize and they do. Take home message: doctors are your parents, nurses are your siblings.
1 tag
When the code blue alarm goes off in a room...
It’s a simulation and we know it and we have to play along or our unit will be in trouble for not responding to a code situation quickly enough.
Going to help my patient setup their dinner tray...
When a patient orders $30 of takeout for just...
Because this is a hospital, and not jail, I can’t stop you. But I can totally Judge Judy look you into submission.
When you try to joke around with your patient and...
Why my new motto is, "Do you want to be right or...
When the resident asked why I am still there so...
… and I told him it was because of all the smoothing over I had to do with my patient when he didn’t answer my calls.
Frank truths from the mouth of a patient
A&O x zero, gcs 14.
Trying to discharge two people at the same time
How I start every shift...
aaaand on a good day, how I end it…
12 hours in a hospital is kind of like eternity.
When they told us we would have to start taking...
And then they mentioned we would have to start trekking down to security to pick up secured belongings. Suckerpunch.
Every day on orientation
When a work fav who just switched units comes back...
When I'm worried that my patient and his...
Second breakfast is a thing.
For desk workers.
When a patient has been MIA for a few hours
The dreaded conversation with the attending physician. I’m sorry sir, we can’t find your patient.
Why we should duct tape visitors' mouths when they...
It’s the smell of stool spores flying into your lungs which you totally deserve since you are making someone feel really terrible about him with your extremely audible thoughtless comments.
When you are besties with all your patients
Making the holiday schedule
My puzzle affects lives.
How I feel when the diagnosis is unknown
It’s a high stakes puzzle. And I always want to be right.
Being right when the resident was wrong
Standing in front of Clara Barton's House
Those nurses from whom I don't enjoy receiving...
