As The Hospital Pervs-- It's Overtime Time

[sweepthefloor]

It's motorcycle season, open your eyes.

 

[sweepthefloor]

We came, we assessed, we poked him with needles and put tubes in every hole. We came, we medicated, we gave the extra nursing dose and 'upped the dip.' We came, we turned, we silenced the ventilator and washed backs.

We came three see under the curtain we are six legs working on one sick body changing linens. And one day we woke him up. We pulled all the tubes out, and the last drop of sedation wore off.

"Hi, I am your nurse. You have been in the hospital for a week. Do you remember me?"

It's all a big blur, and that's good because all these nurses are always talking about their sex and love while working at the car wash.

 

[sweepthefloor]

Discuss how systems theory and chaos theory influence organizations and nursing management

Is this some kind of a joke?

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Gotta admire your sticktoitiveness.

 

[sweepthefloor]

Gotta admire your sticktoitiveness.

I am a sticky note that doesn't lose the stick. I peel myself off and stick it here, there, and everywhere.

 

[sweepthefloor]

It's all like "hurry up and eat before you know what but don't say it."

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Do not marry the Postman/ Postmistress/ Postperson

 

[sweepthefloor]

Do not marry the Postman/ Postmistress/ Postperson

I will if I get a love letter.

 

[sweepthefloor]

Don't forget to check your body for ticks. It's time to check for ticks. I found a tick in the dirty laundry basket and that means it was in my clothes ready to attack me.

 

[Saint Peter]

Pass the Valium!

 

[sweepthefloor]

It always amazes me that people get stabbed in the heart and survive with fast repair.

So, if someone breaks your heart, suture the pieces fast and live. Don't let it ooze and weep slowly till death.

 

[sweepthefloor]

The Image of Nursing

From Silence to Voice
Next paper! And I am kind of torn on the issue. I don't mind being invisible in a secret nursing cult culture: what nurses know, what we do, and I would prefer to leave the public speaking to the nurses in long white coats and MSN degrees.

It's the virtue of nursing vs. the actual nursing~ and please don't put me in front of a news camera. I would be like: Oh yeah! We turn the patients and call it a car wash.

Very bad exemplar! I am too tired to think about it: the image of nursing: I doubt this thread would attract and retain professional nurses.

Doesn't every nurse get pissed when they watch "House" or "Grey's Anatomy" and see the media portray physicians and surgeons doing the nurse work + the doctor work?

I get it. I understand but at the same time I don't care. I work at the bedside and I love it. Should I care? To recruit professional nurses do we need to work on the image of nursing to paint a better picture of who we are?

I guess so, but I am stuck in the battlefield. One nurse is bent over and stretching her hurt back out, because there is no chair and she's writing down her vital signs data from the main monitor. Another nurse says: just stay like that and wait till somebody sticks it in you without surgi-lube.

Sure! We are professional! But we also have sick senses of humor to survive. It's a complex culture switch: curse like a sailor and then put on the professional serious face in the room all in five minutes time.

I don't need the glory, and validation is not necessary for me. I know what we do. I use self-depreciating humor to describe it, but I also understand the depth of what we do.

Am I demoralizing the profession with this thread?

 

[sweepthefloor]

Pass the Valium!

Valium is high up there on the list of most beneficial drugs for certain situations! A close second to morphine.

When I get to advanced research for school and have to conduct my own research I am going to do it on~~~ guess what? ETOH/DTs/ and the prevention of DTs with the use of high dose Valium and the CIWA protocol.

I see the cascade that is preventable, but it's a lot of work. I don't blame the nurses.

 

[Saint Peter]

Demoralizing the profession?

I have never got that impression while visiting your thread. I have a friend that investigates accidents. The job pays really well but there is emotional baggage along with it. Sick jokes help to take the reality away, if only for a quick giggle.

 

[sweepthefloor]

Demoralizing the profession?

I have never got that impression while visiting your thread. I have a friend that investigates accidents. The job pays really well but there is emotional baggage along with it. Sick jokes help to take the reality away, if only for a quick giggle.

Thanks, I am glad you understand. I just keep imagining the 'up-tighters' screaming at me. It's this book I am reading.

 

[sweepthefloor]

I might need a course: "how to be professional" a few weeks ago in frustration (long story about advocating for a patient and a fight/ lack of effective communication with the Attending)~ and I told him, the doctor, to get out of the ICU.

I didn't say "get out" I said something like "maybe you shouldn't be here if you will not accept responsibility and intervene, why are you even here?"

Before that even happened he was being so mean to the medical residents while they were inserting a central line and under stress I said: "Can you leave the room and let them do their job?"

GTFO!

 

[John Doe]

Under my shell and inside of my heart, under my pants and over my legs.

*boner*

 

[Balladeer08]

I should eat more sweet fruit. I am a vegetable and bread girl. I once knew this girl from nursing school that looked up this crazy theory about blood type and food preferences. I should check that out and see if it correlates.

Speaking of crazy blood theories, I recently came to the conclusion that Vampires have blood type AB.

I also figure they are low in vitamin D.

This makes sense, right?

 

[Balladeer08]

Surely Military persons would know their blood type.

They put it on the dog tags. This makes it difficult for the Marines, as it involves reading. 8)

 

[sweepthefloor]

Speaking of crazy blood theories, I recently came to the conclusion that Vampires have blood type AB.

I also figure they are low in vitamin D.

This makes sense, right?

Blood Types

I think it says Type AB can receive from anyone but then again not sure about the Rh factor (+/-). I would assume that Vampires probably have AB! I think it makes sense but I haven't had any coffee yet. The next time I go to the blood bank in the basement I will ask them!

Giving blood serious business, it is checked prior to leaving the blood bank: unit #, patient name and #. After that it is double checked by two RNs for unit # and patient name and #, expiration date, start time, consent on the chart and a double check for the actual written order.

They put it on the dog tags. This makes it difficult for the Marines, as it involves reading. 8)

If a Marine needed blood products, they don't have to read it~ someone else will be reading it. And if it's battlefield I bet they are all receiving universal donation because blood can't be stored for that long.

Outside of emergencies everyone is 'type-crossed-screened' for compatible blood type.

 

[sweepthefloor]

*boner*

You like that?

 

[sweepthefloor]

My ACLS expired. There are 2 options:
#1: take the full 2 day course.
#2: sign the waiver that says if I don't pass the written and the 'mega-code' practical test, I fail and have to take the full 2 day course.

The 'mega-code' is not that mega. We stand around a doll hooked up to a monitor. The instructor goes through various rhythms. Every one takes a turn being the 'leader' and has to identify the rhythm and speak the intervention. "I am clear, you are clear, everybody clear, deliver shock."

This is every 2 years. It's funny because every time during a real code, when the defibrillator is charging people get nervous, it makes a loud, 'whining' sound and people want to stop CPR, they have to be reminded to continue chest compressions till the machine is ready to deliver the joules. It won't shock till you press the button. LOL

I am a little nervous but I will stay calm and remember how many times I did this in real life.

 

[John Doe]

You like that?

Totes.

 

[sweepthefloor]

Totes.

Does that mean yes?

 

[girlsmiley]

Hello, Sweep!

It's been a while.

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