As The Hospital Pervs

[GoddessTink]

Nursing is the toughest job you'll ever love. I'm not at the bedside anymore but I'm still active in care of the patients and very active in family and patient education.

That said, I've never had my emotions get too involved. When I first started as a nurse aide in ER I did...then I had a fiancé die in a car accident. Suddenly I was on the other side of the bed and got it. I gained a different empathy and my sympathy changed. I have had very few patients that I've cried over, and usually it's the family I cry with. I know the feelings they are going to experience, the grief they are going to have. But I leave it at the hospital. My mom and a wise old nurse taught me that. "You can't save everyone and you can't take them home. You make their suffering a little less while you're with them". That was always my aim.

 

[sweepthefloor]

I am sorry for your loss and the experience on the other side of the bed.

I like your well-rounded approach, and I guess it was just a horrible summer, shift after shift. I am still alright with crying with family, and nurse friends. It's not always easy to leave the job at the job, but I guess that's why when it's a bad shift we are not the text with each other.

I am not ready to leave ICU bedside, but one day I will. I am sick of working weekends and holidays. I know I am going to get shafted up the ass with no lubrication. I can't wait for the Holiday schedule to be posted.

 

[sweepthefloor]

I got my weekend work shoes on, for a living.

 

[pete]

I got my weekend work shoes on, for a living.

speechless.

happy.

inspired.

i'm many things right now

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Be careful, Dear.


Nice video.

 

[sweepthefloor]

Thank you. I am getting better.

 

[girlsmiley]

Sweep. That was awesome!

 

[sweepthefloor]

Sweep. That was awesome!

Thank you smiley.

 

[girlsmiley]

No, thank you, hon.

I should stop by more often.

You are very...interesting. Cool.

 

[sweepthefloor]

You mean I'm not all alone in the wilderness?

It's clock time- I can do anything for 12 hours.

Anything.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Take it 10 minutes at a time, if need be.


Heartbeat at a time.


You'll be fine . . . you are not alone.

 

[GoddessTink]

I thought I was going to be the only person there when my 93 year old patient died today. He made it for his family to get there. But barely. On the other side I saved a life of a splenic rupture patient tonight.

Favoite part of my night? 80something year old lady blew me a kiss as I was leaving and told me she loved me. She got an "I love you too" in response.

That's what makes me go back day after day.

 

[GoddessTink]

I worked 2 weeks straight where I had someone die every shift. 6 patients in two weeks. I grabbed a chaplain one night and asked for a blessing of the hands, to help cleanse me and restore my faith it wasn't me. Broke my streak and restored my self confidence.

 

[sweepthefloor]

I thought I was going to be the only person there when my 93 year old patient died today. He made it for his family to get there. But barely. On the other side I saved a life of a splenic rupture patient tonight.

Favoite part of my night? 80something year old lady blew me a kiss as I was leaving and told me she loved me. She got an "I love you too" in response.

That's what makes me go back day after day.

It's the good outcomes.

 

[sweepthefloor]

I worked 2 weeks straight where I had someone die every shift. 6 patients in two weeks. I grabbed a chaplain one night and asked for a blessing of the hands, to help cleanse me and restore my faith it wasn't me. Broke my streak and restored my self confidence.

That's some cloud. I feel like I get that with the diagnosis: 2 weeks DKA, 2 weeks bleed, 2 weeks sepsis, and all summer trauma.

 

[sweepthefloor]

Nurse A: get away from me. You make me sick.
Me: ok, get your candy bowl out of here.

 

[sweepthefloor]

I had to go to lunch early so I don't eat all the candy.

 

[GoddessTink]

Things come in groups. I just dealt with 4 snake bites. I've never had to admit a snake bite, but in one week there were 4...3 hands and one inner thigh.

Sepsis is constant. Pneumonia and UTI.

Potassium 1.7 -nurse calls "well my patient was complaining it was hard to breath and she could barely reach for her cup. But I thought it was just generalized weakness".

And candy is never turned down. Make a nurse happy, bring us treats.

 

[sweepthefloor]

Things come in groups. I just dealt with 4 snake bites. I've never had to admit a snake bite, but in one week there were 4...3 hands and one inner thigh.

Sepsis is constant. Pneumonia and UTI.

Potassium 1.7 -nurse calls "well my patient was complaining it was hard to breath and she could barely reach for her cup. But I thought it was just generalized weakness".

And candy is never turned down. Make a nurse happy, bring us treats.

I have never seen a snake bite. We don't have many snakes around here. I wouldn't know what to do. I guess I would get the scalpel, cut an X and start sucking the poison out-- like in the movies.

K+ 1.7! Weakness is the least of her worries, she could have dysrhythmia or even cardiac arrest.

I don't want treats, just tricks. I have been doing so good lately with the hooping exercise I want to keep decreasing the waist line... but that candy, my brain needs glucose. The candy is a plot to make us tired and lazy when we sugar crash: code blue? ok, get the back board. *yawn*

We are poor excuses for health. I run 12 hours on coffee, candy, and pretzels. If I want to be healthy I run to the pantry for a ginger-ale mixed with cranberry and eat some graham crackers. It's pathetic!

There is that perfect nurse: the one that packs carrot sticks, hummus dips, and sting beans for snacks.

 

[sweepthefloor]

And the Halloween party-- I trooped on last year, and went to work the next day, sipping on gatorade, eating salty chips and bananas.

This year, I am not going to do it. I just don't want to risk it. I could walk in tomorrow with stable for critical care, or I could walk in with the CRRT, or the hypothermia protocol, or just plain crashing on 4 pressors, and amps amps amps of bicarbonate. So many amps I have to go to the Pyxis to figure out just how many I pushed. I am being responsible.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

And the Halloween party-- I trooped on last year, and went to work the next day, sipping on gatorade, eating salty chips and bananas.

This year, I am not going to do it. I just don't want to risk it. I could walk in tomorrow with stable for critical care, or I could walk in with the CRRT, or the hypothermia protocol, or just plain crashing on 4 pressors, and amps amps amps of bicarbonate. So many amps I have to go to the Pyxis to figure out just how many I pushed. I am being responsible.

So, you're like a nurse or something?

 

[rosco rathbone]

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We are poor excuses for health. I run 12 hours on coffee, candy, and pretzels. If I want to be healthy I run to the pantry for a ginger-ale mixed with cranberry and eat some graham crackers. It's pathetic!

There is that perfect nurse: the one that packs carrot sticks, hummus dips, and sting beans for snacks.

Good point.

 

[Balladeer08]

There is that perfect nurse: the one that packs carrot sticks, hummus dips, and sting beans for snacks.

There are fresh fruit vending machines. Apples, oranges, bananas, etc. I've only seen them a couple of places. I would think a hospital should have them.

The best way to encourage healthy eating is to make it EASY.

Mention it to someone in Admin so it can become their idea and they can get a bonus for implementing it.

8(

 

[sweepthefloor]

So, you're like a nurse or something?

My real full time job is being me. I dress up like a nurse three times a week so that I can swing on IV poles and push morphine.

 

[sweepthefloor]

Good point.

We eat coffee for breakfast, suck cortisol for lunch, and burn adrenaline for dinner.