Nursing Student 911

@nursingstudent911

Cardiothoracic RN, BSN. Bringing together all of the joys and horrors that make up the big and crazy adventure that is nursing.

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When your co-workers are being loud as hell after you finally got your problem patient to sleep:

Happening to have off the weekend the blizzard hits:

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About to push the adenosine...

When your patient keeps asking for assistance with their urinal:

When a family member starts playing with the IV pump every time it beeps:

When you hear your patient’s LVAD alarming:

When your patient’s wife asks why he’s being so cranky with her:

When the resident gets mad that you paged their superior:

I’m my patient’s advocate. If you can’t answer your pages or are making poor decisions, I’ll bump it up.

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When my patient has the best veins ever

When your patient’s needy family won’t stop calling the nurses station:

Trying to talk to any non-nurse about your bad day at work:

When the doctor insists on removing your patient’s foley before d/c’ing their epidural:

Looking forward to putting that foley back in!

The horror of taking off some patients’ socks:

When your patient in 4 point restraints tries to get at you:

When your patient leaves a poop trail of diarrhea all the way to the bathroom:

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In nursing, you’re not really friends, until it’s 2:00 am, and 3 nurses are trying to restrain a confused patient, while another is trying to sedate them...

When a coworker asks if you mind helping them with their patient:

When you realize they’re on isolation:

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