Is That Blood On Your Scrubs?

Alysa. 29. New York. CVICU RN, future CTS NP. Blog is dedicated to my current and future hardworking nurses out there.

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Beautiful floral medical art

Find them here :)

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Stop teasing him, Sokka. Aang’s just a good friend. 

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On your way out, tell her I will be a few minutes late. But she shouldn’t worry. Jingle All The Way (1996)

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alternate title: young children gawk at flaming homosexuals

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Another alternate title: the bailey school kids need to mind their own damn business

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HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE Let’s say it’s 6.15pm and you’re going home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself..!! NOW HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE… Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can perhaps buy precious time to get themselves to a phone and dial 911. Rather than sharing another joke please contribute by broadcasting this which can save a person’s life! Be prepared and become part of the solution. Get your free next-of-kin notification card today. Click here: https://www.InCaseOfEmergencyCard.com/

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Reblogging cause this could save someone’s life

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This is for everybody

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Good information, thanks for this public service announcement!

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Um, no

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>>Patient begins coding for 5th time

>>Doctor takes trauma light and points it at patients face

Me: what are you doing?

Doctor (yelling at patient): SEE THIS??? GO TOWARDS THIS!!

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My favorite part about working the day after a party holiday is waking up drunk patients and telling them they’re in the ER. I love being able to see, on their faces, the moment they discover where they are and then realize they have no idea how they got here.

I imagine it’s like watching your kid open presents on Christmas morning. But with less joy. And more vomiting.

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Emergent complaint of the day:

Abdominal pain x 20 years.

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Still Learning...

Hello there, 

My name is Alysa (yes, with one ‘S’) and I’m currently working as an emergency department nurse in NYC. I’ve been a working night nurse for about two years and I have plans to move to a critical care unit. I am studying for my Emergency Nurse Certification and hopefully next year, my company will pay for my Trauma Certification courses. Last week I received good news that I was accepted into graduate school, so by 2022, I’ll be an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. Although I am making steps to further advance my career, I am still a novice nurse and I try to learn something new every shift. 

A little bit about my hospital:

I work in a tertiary hospital where we see on average, about 400 patients a day. We are a level one trauma unit, level two Pediatric trauma, Stroke Certified, and have a Cardiac Cath lab on site. The ER is divided into several sections, Critical/Trauma (STEMI, Strokes, Unresponsive, unstable GI bleeds, and traumatic falls, gunshots, and stabbings) Main (stable workups such as abdominal pain, psychiatric/behavioral care, cardiac workups, stable blood transfusions, etc., the bulk of patients we see end up here) Pediatrics/Urgent Care (all children up to 21 years old are seen in this area and outpatient services), and Holding/Observation area (admitted patients that do not have a bed upstairs and patient who need to stay overnight for early morning testing). All nurses take shifts into different sections, none of us are designated in a certain area (i.e. one shift I’ll work in pediatrics, next shift I’ll work in the holding area). Although we do not have a designated trauma team, we all are adept in holding our own during codes. Like all hospitals, there are issues that can be improved, such as adequate staffing, but I enjoy working with these ER nurses. 

This blog is dedicated to all future, current, and retired nurses out there who want to learn, laugh, or complain about the field of nursing. 

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When I don’t see my name on the shift schedule

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I spent ten minutes helping a coworker’s patient.. As I’m pushing meds, the MD walks in and says to the patient, “Well you have meningitis.”

I wasn’t wearing any PPE.

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Thanks for the warning

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When my patient’s family member is looking for me and I’m just trying to catch up on charting

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“Respiratory rate of…uh,18…”

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me walking in to work, seeing how busy it is, and immediately tryin to sneak the fuck out

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Ummmmmm

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10/10

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Me to me, when I use phrases like “I’m dying”,“I’d kill for”, etc. in the hospital

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Remember: doing good CPR is like remembering how to have good sex

- go hard

- go fast

- go deep

- switch roles when you get tired

- if you’re not getting sweaty, you’re not working hard enough

😜 ✌🏻️🚑🏥