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Nursing Out Loud
Stories about my life as an RN.
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You know your nursing note is too long when you run out of paper, and the ink in your pen runs out
Shit hit the fan today
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I hope there wasn't a patient in the scanner
Someone forgot about how the MRI machine is giANT FUCKING MAGNET
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Same!
Nurse life is...
Everyone getting ready and doing things for the long weekend and I’m here like: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ working the whole time.
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The Medical Benefits Of Being Addicted To Coffee Infographic
all day every day <3
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I don't get why my patients are surprised about their meals
They pick them the day before! But yet every single time the tray comes, they open the cloche and act as if they had no idea it would be a fucking cabbage roll or whatever the hell they circled on their papers
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fuck yes!
You may think you know more than the nurses. You do not. [requested by anon]
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Story. Of. My. Life.
(via whatshouldwecallnicunursing)
accurate
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^true
I haven't put an IV in, in about 8 months...
And I got one in a renal failure pt, with good back flow of blood. FINALLY I GET TO PUT IN AN IV. Pts in the ICU always have PICCs or CVCs so getting an IV in just feels awesome.
I miss the med-surg floor for this reason. Poking people with needles. :)
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I keep saying that we need a video of a REAL code, to show families before they make the decision to make their 85 year old father with end-stage COPD a full code
I hate how the media romanticizes CPR...
The only thing beautiful about CPR is watching a good team work flawlessly together like a well oiled machine. There is nothing beautiful about pounding on a chest, slamming drugs in to veins, and intubating patients. Sometimes I wish families could see what “do everything” means before they ask for it….
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98 year old patient who eats only ice cream, chocolate bars and cookies, and drinks chocolate milk and 1 prn beer daily, who has her fingernails painted q2days by her granddaughter. Today, each nail is a different colour. This woman is doing it right!
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this is the answer to the “why aren’t you a doctor?” question
Nursing
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I wanted candy today, but I didn't want to eat too much, so I bought some and brought it to rounds with the other disciplines (MDs, OT, PT, SW, nutrition, Rec therapy, RT etc). I put it on the table and said help yourself everyone. I opened the bags and started eating. Noone had any. Not one piece. Rounds finished and they all left. I called the nurses and was like, hey guys I bought candy. I went down the hall to answer a question. When I came back there was a swarm of nurses just chowing down. This is why I'm a nurse
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Doing charge nurse again for 3 weeks
I don't learn my lesson last time... Or I'm a glutton for punishment hah. Back to the Monday- Friday, 9-5 life. Ugh
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So much truth here.
1. That you would be in charge by the end of your first year as a squeaky clean, brand new nurse
2. That you would be a preceptor by the end of that first year
3. That you would want to quit every day for that first year
4. That you would have to mix so many...
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Got blood on 3 "tough stick" patients today, first poke
I'm so damn proud of myself hah
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fuck with one nurse fuck with them all
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