#nurse things

[secretgardens-inmymind]

accidentally taking home vials of zofran might be my favorite nurse perk (I gave myself an IM injection of it today bc I have the flu and would like to keep my meds down) so shoutout to all of my patients who refuse the zofran after I pull it from the pyxis

[blackleatherjacketz]

[multi-fandomfuckboy]

[stronglyobsessed]

Dear patient(s),

When you call for an acute appointment, and that appointment is for UTI, please do me a favor and fucking have urine in your bladder.

Do not, and I repeat do not, pee before hand. You better be crossing your legs and dancing all the way into the office, because you have to go…

Sincerely,

A nurse who is fucking over it.

[positivemotivation]

[darkwolf76]

Just finished my first week on the job as an OR nurse intern! Only fifteen more weeks to go until graduation!!! So excited!

[kangofu-cb]

You're a nurse -- do you ever help deliver babies? (Have you ever witnessed obstetric violence? ** I realize that escalated quickly)

I do not! I work in a cardiovascular ICU so I once saw a surgeon remove an ECMO cannulation from a literal heart and hold pressure while his assistant frantically sutured, but no babies.

Wait that’s a lie.

(The baby part not the heart part - that’s a true story.)

A few weeks ago we had an obstetric patient on the unit for pulmonary hypertension and monitoring and one of the other nurses repeatedly mentioned she was in active labor

And the baby made a grand entrance

So we called the Intensivist (ICU Physician - this is her specialty, like obstetric or orthopedics or whatever. She specializes in ICU care)

Her response was “what do you want me to do I don’t even have kids?!?”

Anyway baby and mother were both fine!!! The OB came (eventually) and we called the L&D nurses to... do that thing. With the fundus? Where you push on it? I SAID I DO CVICU OKAY

So anyway there’s my one and only baby delivery story.

And I’ve never seen any obstetric violence, but nurses are assaulted at nearly the same rate as police officers, so...

[thinkingincharcoal]

Nerd.