Welcome To The Nurse Life

My crazy adventures as a nurse in the cardiothoracic ICU.

[copingnurse-deactivated20240217]

Me, when people ask what it’s like to work the holidays...

[p1ss]

[ejacutastic]

I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL

[biszumletzten]

Stop says the red light, go says the green

Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between. 

KNEEL, SAYS THE DEMON LIGHT WITH ITS EYE OF COAL  SAURON KNOWS YOUR LICENSE PLATE  AND STARES INTO YOUR SOUL

[demonsnakes-deactivated20160829]

THIS IS ALWAYS FUNNY

[furbearingbrick]

I’ve only seen this legendary post in screenshots

[theglowstickchronicles]

ITS BACK

[deadpools-girlfriend]

[pettycentral]

[crustybatrn]

Where are all my over 30 Nurses at? I swear every profile are 19-22 year olds asking people to “join them as they embark on this new journey of nursing.” Is there a geriatric side of Tumblr I’m supposed to be on? 😂😂😂 #ICantRelate #9YearsExperience #LoveToAllMyFellowNurses

[caringintensely]

*raises tiny, shriveled, trembling hand and wheezes out “Here.”*

[sresurreccion]

* Doing the Carlton, “Got one right here”*

[maureenrn]

We are here!

[sarcasticbabywhispererjess]

[rn-aimes]

I'm 28... that rounds up to 30, right? 5 years experience here!

[aspiringdoctors-blog]

At a coffeeshop

Two hours ago I was in a trauma room doing compressions on a toddler. The mother’s screams mixing with the sounds nursesdoctorstechs calling out, the beeping monitors telling us what we already know. Now I’m sipping a raspberry vanilla latte out of a mug with red birds riding snowflakes listening to some 80s music. The baby inside of me is kicking. My hands still smell like gloves and hand sanitizer.

This job is completely surreal.

[dxmedstudent]

It’s hard to see what we see, and then go back to ‘normal’ life, surrounded by people who will hopefully never have to witness what we’ve seen, much less play an active part. Sometimes the ordinary is so jarring and suffocating that you almost can’t stand it, at other times it’s like a warm blanket, insulating you from the hurt. I hope you can take time to process, and to make peace with what happened. And to rejoin the outside world.

[freethegiraffes]

I needed to read this so badly today.

[rn-aimes]

Same. While everyone is at home sleeping at 0300, I am desperately fighting to keep my patient alive as she decompesates faster than we can intervene. Her daughter is crying in the waiting room, terrified to see her mom with all the tubes. We are placing an emergent vascath. Her lactate is 20. We are losing...

[thedevilsrain]

[giantmonster]

[rn-aimes]

My face when my patient's lactate jumps from 10 to 20 in three hours.

[bob-belcher]

Happy International Women’s Day!

[cat-bat]

@dinnasaw

[dinnasaw]

@figgeryboo

[nurse-x-ramblings]

GOLD 🙌🏼

[rn-aimes]

❤❤❤

[rn-aimes]

Anesthesia broke my patient

We got my lung transplant extubated and the acute pain service comes by to place an epidural. I'm holding my patient on the side of the bed, she's been extubated all of 5 minutes.

Epidural placement goes fine, they give the test dose and BAM! MAP of 29.

It took three pressors and multiple boluses of epi and phenylephrine to stabilize her.

So anesthesia broke her, but at least they helped me fix her too.

[cooperhoward]

i just found out merriam webster has a time traveler feature that tells you some of the words that were “born” the same year as you. it’s pretty neat yall should do this

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

i’m the same age as twerking and bromance guys

[team-ginger-himbos]

‘Internet service provider’….how fucking old am I???!!

[yourlocalbogwitch]

i’m as old as the word cybersex

[man-that-wont-fit-in-deactivate]

Laptop, FedEx, and Date-rape.

[kimberlyspyder]

Hepatitis e and whitey-tighties

[nogodsnokingsnomasters]

Buffalo wing and cable modem

[james3-13-deactivated20201123]

Arena football, crackbaby, and perestroika.

[flyingeagleclaw]

[rn-aimes]

Hahaha I am the same age as clopidogrel and gangsta rap.

[nursingtheheart]

When you give a bolus of propofol/dilaudid/fentanyl and they tank their pressure.

[iamsarahmarch]

Except you can’t bolus Propofol 🤗 specifically because it causes severe hypotension enough to stop pulses

[nursingtheheart]

Pretty sure that we 10000% push propofol during procedures such as intubation all the time.

Also we do bolus it in the ICU, mostly when people are going a little crazy pants and grabbing for the tube, central line etc.

[theglowstickchronicles]

Saw an ED nurse push propofol for an ankle reduction…. and can’t it be pushed for conscious sedation? We don’t do it on my floor

[chiefcomplaint]

👋🏽 hi, hello, ED RN who bolus doses propofol all the time and uses it for sedation for quick reductions or cardioversions.

[rn-aimes]

Yup, we do it all the time too. Can't have my ECMO patient sitting up and decannulating themselves, now can I?

[boluscoffeestat-deactivated2020]

When the docs are inserting a chest tube and almost 2 L of blood pours out

Welp

[rn-aimes]

Yup...

[nursingcapsarecool]

Now I’m going to sit here for the next 7 hours picking at these.

[sterileapparel]

More like anesthesia 😂

[kaitlinstales]

At least they are stabilized? 

[rn-aimes]

DEFINITELY anesthesia.

[tacticalconscience]

Even if you don’t think vaccines and autism are related … these are some staggering numbers!

[a-spoon-is-born]

YES THESE NUMBERS ARE STAGGERING I WOULD ALSO POSIT THAT HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THESE IMAGES AND TEXT ALSO

[chaotically-neutral-deactivating]

12/10 best response to this idiocy.

[msdoublenegative]

correlation does not equal causation dumbasses

[cactustreemotel-blog]

Those are the best graphs ever.

[pinchtheprincess]

I have seen similar posts, but this one has the best charts. 

[alexander]

Correlation does not mean Causation

[homotology]

[rn-aimes]

The mountain range though!!! 😂😂😂

[licensetomurse-deactivated20200]

When you’re running a code and you’re ready to deliver that shock in 3… 2…

[rn-aimes]

⚡️⚡️⚡️

[rn-aimes]

IABP

Took my first balloon pump today, emergently placed at the beside. The patient and I both survived, even thought my patient was cranky as hell when he came around.

But cranky ain’t dead, so that’s a plus.