Nocshift life

Expert foil package opener, water pitcher filler, and extra blanket retriever just trying to make it in this crazy nurse life.

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My coworkers & I sneaking food around the unit like…

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[heykristyy]

Forever reblogging this.

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And the fact that there’s more than one company means several people called makes it even better.

[nurselovinsxo]

This makes my heart happy.

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Respiratory Acidosis & Alkalosis

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Metabolic Acidosis & Metabolic Alkalosis S&S

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The optimism of ICU and ED nurses

[mardeybird]

My co-workers when I’m looking at my monitor and pondering the physiological reason for my patient’s extremely labile blood pressure, instead of silencing my dang alarms.

[adequatelyassessing]

Giving golytely to my GI bleed patient for their colonoscopy…

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Necrotizing pneumonia: check out the cavities in the left lung 😧

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Me, when that 0400 nurse delirium hits.

By 0500 there’s a sharp increase in “that’s what she said” muttering

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Going to brunch after a NOC shift

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Adenosine stopcock set up

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When you turn the patient and they try to die

[allisonrn2014]

Haha the “final turn”

[allisonrn2014]

When the family member walks in to your GI bleed patient’s room.

[nursingistheshit]

When my patient has IV Vanc, Cipro, Flagyl, and a nice dose of magnesium all due at 1400.... and a #22 in the wrist

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Me, in my car after after a bad shift...

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Talking can be so exhausting 

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