#nurblrs

[humorofanightshiftnurse]

What my trach patient thinks when I get super bossy and won’t let him be obnoxious.

[mydnyt02]

When you work on Christmas Eve

[illbeyourmursesomeday]

I am having a hard time with Nurses Week this year. I'm snarky and over it when I'm called a "Hero". Last year many of us were working extra hours during the pandemic; puttingour lives on the line was very real as we see our peers die nationally. Levels of exhaustion we've never felt before. We were spit on, ridiculed, violent protests accusing us of being part of a giant hoax. Yet we smiled and held hands of our patients through the darkness of the pandemic. Well, we were taxed heavily for pitching in so our Health Care system won't crumble.

But thank you for the free food.

[nurseavocado]

I’m watching CSI, which was a show I loved when I was in middle school. And I’m just thinking how when I was in middle school, I wanted to be a CSI. Then in high school I wanted to be a coroner and I specifically remember saying “I don’t want to work with live people. That’s a lot of responsibility”. (Not that coroners don’t have a lot of responsibility)

Now I’m a nurse. Weird how things work. (In another life, I think I’d be a forensic pathologist, not a coroner)

[stupidityismyjobsecurity]

Patient Conversations

Patient: "Have you ever done this before?"

Me: *scoffs* "Well, not SOBER."

[greigferguson]

For everyone who has helped someone else during this global crisis. Maybe humanity has a chance to set its course right again..just maybe we can be better after this. To my friends and colleagues around the world. I’m with you.

[ourloveandtrials]

How it happened...

Basically a couple of weeks ago I thought... fuck it! I'm posting an add on gumtree and I'm going to sell my uniforms etc and yes.... yes the Aussie version of Craig's list is called gumtree 😂 So anyways I thought I might as well just sell them because i wasn't going to be going back to nursing anytime soon. I got heaps of responses from students wanting to buy them but something in me wouldn't let me do it. I cancelled the add. Fast forward a week and I'm scrolling through Facebook. A video comes up of someone squeezing a crystallized hematoma out of someone's thigh. I excitedly showed my partner who gagged! I watched it over and over just totally mesmerized by it. This morning I woke up thinking I need to be back in the action. I need to be making a difference, it just means getting through school. I waited for my partner to leave for work because I was to nervous with excitement to tell him so I made some calls while he was gone and then messaged him when I had more info. He was so happy when I told him I was returning, only because he knew how passionate about it I once was and he was happy to see the spark back in my eyes. So basically, on top of starting a family I will be returning to university and rebooting my career!

[mydnyt02]

Nurblr community, talk to me about work from home nursing jobs, please. Ideally ones that aren’t triage.

Background: Six years RN (BSN) experience, last three in critical care managing anything from traumas to STEMIs, CVA, post code, Covid, etc. My goal this year is to get my CCRN.

I want to stay bedside (currently PRN) but with having two kids and little to no help (relying on baby sitters, which isn’t cheap and not the most reliable) I’m having to figure something out ‘cause obviously bills aren’t going to pay themselves.

I’m so tired of feeling stuck.

Sidebar: if anyone has figured out cloning, now would be a great time to share that information. ‘Cause that would fix a lot of problems too.