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9 months
A friends hospital was offering incentive pay to get them to pick up tonight. Friend picked up for the mentioned incentive. Once at work they told the nurses who picked up theyโ€™d be canceling incentive pay at 2300. Friend said ok then I leave at 2300.
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I hate when people criticize my choice to take a break from full time nursing. โ€œYouโ€™re young you need to be working all you can!โ€ Ok boomer. I just worked 2 years in a pandemic and all I got was PTSD. Iโ€™m good for a while
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Iโ€™m the only person who works in our household and my fiancรฉ really just had the audacity to tell me it makes him uncomfortable when I spend money because it makes him depressedโ€ฆโ€ฆโ€ฆsir. Get a job
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2 years
Oh fucking fuck fuck. 27 year old. Covid positive โžก๏ธ 39 weeks pregnant fetal demise โžก๏ธ DIC โžก๏ธ massive hemorrhage Just gonna add that to my Covid ptsd folder
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7 months
Unpopular opinion that always gets people mad. Home births are scary and dangerous AF. Obstetric emergencies happen so fast and are terrifying. Why put yourself or baby at such a risk. I will not be changing my opinion so donโ€™t tell me how great your home birth was
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7 months
I donโ€™t understand how shared rooms are even allowable with HIPAA laws. Because I guarantee bed 1 can hear everything youโ€™re telling bed 2.
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I want to cancel my wedding and run away with my fiancรฉ to get married because other people keep ruining this entire experience. Massive bills for hidden fees, my officiant and a groomsman are apparently beefing, in-laws invited people we donโ€™t even know ๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก
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1 year
Local hospital just made a โ€œone blanket per patientโ€ policy in an attempt to โ€œsave money on linenโ€ they only want 1 blanket per patient. Instead of making patients freeze and sacrificing patient comfort letโ€™s cut that CEO budget a little
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9 months
@SourdoughSusie Itโ€™s never patient abandonment if you 1 you agreed to certain terms. 2 youโ€™re not walking out. You notify them well ahead of time. Same if you go home sick mid shift
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9 months
Iโ€™m so fed up with the shit hospital admin tried to pull
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2 years
The @CDCgov now recommends healthcare workers just do a line of coke since coffee breaks cut into patient care time
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1 year
5 ICU nurses for 17 patients and 20 beds. No help being given. Nurses refusing to clock in an accept 4 patient assignments. Some floors have NO nurses scheduled this morning. 37 nurses short hospital wide. Where is admin?
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9 months
THE. STROKE. UNIT. HAS. ONE. NURSE. SCHEDULED. FOR. 14. PATIENTS. What. The. Actual. Fuck.
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6 months
Overheard at this nurses station โ€œoh Covidโ€™s been going around but we donโ€™t want to use up our PTO so just donโ€™t test and come in anywaysโ€ The. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. You.
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7 months
I didnโ€™t realize it was controversial to tell people that bedside nurses who work three 12s per week are full time employees ๐Ÿ™ƒ Three. 12s. Is. Full. Time.
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1 year
There are NICU nurses are over here just throwing a FIT because a nurse on their unit used their break room to pump and wash her breast pump. They equated it to taking a piss on the floor. I donโ€™t get itโ€ฆโ€ฆitโ€™s milk. Sheโ€™s not forcing you to drink it.
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2 years
Unvaxxed, refusing treatment, refusing to let RT titrate bipap settingsโ€ฆ..WHY ARE YOU HERE
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2 years
Med surge has a ratio of 1-12 tonight. Step down is 1:6 and ICU 1:3 THIS IS CRIMINAL. SHUT THE DOORS. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
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2 years
I justโ€ฆโ€ฆI never expected so many people to act like a BP cuff being tight when blowing up was just the end of the world and the thing they couldnโ€™t deal with
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7 months
One more time for the people who donโ€™t get it. THREE 12 HOUR SHIFTS PER WEEK IS FULL TIME WORK AS A NURSE
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2 years
The cdc says you no longer need a real nursing license, just watch greys anatomy and youโ€™ll be qualified to help with the Covid surge
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3 years
A PRE MED student on TikTok told me to shut up because โ€œnurses practice memory based medicine vs doctors who critically thinkโ€โ€ฆโ€ฆ.oh no babe. You might wanna fix that attitude before residency. Big yikes.
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29 days
Please stop using hospice care and palliative care interchangeably. They are NOT the same thing
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2 years
This resident is arguing with me that being a DNR/DNI automatically means no escalation of care and no pressorsโ€ฆโ€ฆsir those are different things and I will continue to treat my patient. Holy shit.
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3 months
โ€œYouโ€™re being floated to ERโ€ โ€œNo im not. Im not an ER nurse. Never been trained. Donโ€™t have access to anythingโ€ โ€œOh theyโ€™re just hold patientsโ€ โ€œTheyโ€™re in the ER, they require access to the ER which I donโ€™t have. So noโ€
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9 months
Me as a nurse โ€œI really donโ€™t like when patients puke on meโ€ Twitter public โ€œHOW HORRIBLE OF YOU TO DEMONIZE YOUR SICK PATIENT! THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO THROW UP ALL OVER YOU AND YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY TO CLEAN IT UP! YOU DONT DESERVE TO BE A NURSE!โ€
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3 years
We are hemorrhaging staff and management is so pissed at people for resigning they wonโ€™t respond to resignation letters and refuse to let people who offer to stay contingent or part time do so. So when I say itโ€™s bad, itโ€™s really really bad.
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3 years
Unit manager โ€œyou need to respect the choices of your peers if they donโ€™t want to get vaccinated.โ€ Me โ€œno thanksโ€
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If youโ€™re a full ass nurse AND a female and you say to me during my report of a 42 year old post partum โ€œI didnโ€™t know women over 40 could still have babies!?โ€ Maam. Iโ€™m concerned about your license being real amongst other things.
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3 years
If you tell me you โ€œtook care of covid patientsโ€ but refuse the vaccine I automatically donโ€™t believe you really had any experience with covid at all
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2 years
The hospital is out of body bags and the morgue is full. Theyโ€™re going to bring back the refrigerator trucksโ€ฆ..Detroit just continues to get hit over and over ๐Ÿ˜ข
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2 years
*Calls resident for concerning ABG result* Resident โ€œYoU ONly CaLl Me IF ThE PaTIent iS CrAShingโ€ Nah boo. Youโ€™re covering the icu.
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2 months
It happened again, another hospital that wonโ€™t allow doctors to culture a patient with new presenting sepsis who has a central line, catheter or ventilator because if the cultures come back positive theyโ€™ll get dinged. But donโ€™t worry theyโ€™ll still start 3 antibiotics ๐Ÿ™ƒ
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2 years
My hospital system refused to renew any travel contracts and stated they wonโ€™t offer any new contracts. They also cut the incentive for their own staff to pick up by over half so Iโ€™m not sure who they think is going to take care of the patients but doesnโ€™t seem like they care
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9 months
It doesnโ€™t matter where you are. The one thing NOBODY wants to hear paged out is โ€œcode blue labor and deliveryโ€
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9 months
Accidentally spilled a vial of fentanyl on my arm. I guess Iโ€™ll just slowly wait for the sweet embrace of death
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2 years
The valley of the shadow of death is in fact a Covid ICU
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3 months
I am legitimately confused by a person I know in real life who refuses to vaccinate their children yet is complaining because itโ€™s taking too long to get a vet appointment for a rabies shot on a new family dog. Guess the dogs life is more important than the kids
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3 years
I keep seeing all these sketchy ass new nurses posting โ€œstarting my NP programโ€ and me a 5 year bedside experienced RN over here like nah babe that ainโ€™t it you ainโ€™t ready ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
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2 years
For nurses week my former hospital had a taco truck during lunch for the nurses. They only had two people working it for thousands of employees and THEY MADE THE NURSES PAY FOR IT
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3 years
Letโ€™s be perfectly clear here, icu nurses especially (although I know ER and others too so donโ€™t come at me) have PTSD because we fought a COVID war that so many seem to deny existed. Mass death is one thing, but mass death with public denial is justโ€ฆโ€ฆitโ€™s traumatizing
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9 months
DO. NOT. FUCKING. CO-SLEEP. WITH. YOUR. INFANT ๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ข
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8 months
CRNA intubated my patient without even a surgical mask onโ€ฆ..patient is now in Covid isolation. ๐Ÿ™ƒ๐Ÿ™ƒ
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6 years
Please donโ€™t shame new nurses. Theyโ€™re new. They need to learn and you can teach them without making them feel like crap
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3 years
Remember that time I had 30+ of my own icu patients die in a month because of covid and a white middle aged man said I was lying and they died because I wasnโ€™t a good nurse? Yeah......the ptsd just hit
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PTO is not a โ€œrequestโ€ itโ€™s our time and when we โ€œput inโ€ for it weโ€™re actually telling you we will not be available to work those days and itโ€™s none of your business why.
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Me an icu nurse โ€œholy shit I just saw the most traumatic codeโ€ Random person on the internet โ€œno you didnโ€™t you fucking irresponsible liar! Youโ€™re just trying to scare us!โ€ Ummโ€ฆ.I donโ€™t event know
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Listen. I know ER is there for the life and death but can you please for the love of god at least give the DKA with a glucose over 900 some insulin at some point during the 5 hours theyโ€™re down there before they get to icu ๐Ÿ˜ญ
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6 years
The worst part about being a functional person with anxiety is that everyone always thinks youโ€™re fine because you hide it well but on the inside itโ€™s like WW3 within your brain.
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How the actual fuck did I manage to find myself working with a group of nurses who are so loudly and proudly discussing how the Covid vaccine is fake and bullshit and doctors just get kickbacks for giving it
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If I ever die suddenly please donate all my organs. Donate everything you possibly can. Donโ€™t leave me in icu on a vent. Consider this my advanced directive.
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3 years
Guysโ€ฆ..I donโ€™t think I want to be a nurse anymoreโ€ฆโ€ฆ..
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2 years
I do not understand people who publicly bash nurses because they got a bruise from an IV or that a blood draw hurtโ€ฆ.you got poked with a needle, it sucks we know but the fact that it didnโ€™t feel great doesnโ€™t mean we are shitty at our jobs
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I literally canโ€™t think of any other profession other than nursing where the public expects you to be absolutely perfect in every way and happy all the time. No Iโ€™m not going to allow you to threaten me or hit me and Iโ€™m definitely not going to be happy if you do
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โ€œNurses here canโ€™t use ultrasounds to put in IVs. We had a resident accidentally put a line in a carotid arteryโ€ Ok so what does that have to do with nurses ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ™ƒ
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I just went to a rapid response where every physician and nurse was female and Iโ€™ve never felt so much power in a single room. Every surgical/critical care resident and interns in house tonight are female
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If you donโ€™t understand why your Covid conspiracies hurt me and are personal to me THE COVID ICU NURSE then no you arenโ€™t my friend
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What medical opinion do you have that frequently gets you attacked on social media Iโ€™ll go first - Covid is real and vaccines are good, get them Honorable mention - donโ€™t bed share with your infant
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Things I never thought Iโ€™d hear โ€œyour new admit is a 105 year old here for uterine prolapseโ€ Iโ€ฆโ€ฆ.what
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Guysโ€ฆโ€ฆthereโ€™s no radiologist on call for the entire level 2 trauma center from midnight-0500โ€ฆ..everyโ€ฆ.fuckingโ€ฆnight
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Nothing like just walking in to hang a new bag of fluids and finding your neuro patient with their entire bloody trach in their hand ๐Ÿ˜‘ PUT THAT THING BACK WHERE IT CAME FROM
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The CDC no longer recommends checking blood glucose since it takes up too much time, just use your best guess when administering insulin.
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2 years
Weโ€™re 2 years into this and people still think Covid โ€œis just a coldโ€. I hate it here
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If you want to increase nurse retention (in addition to paying us better!) have actual food available for night shift to buy and eat and let us wear what we want as long as itโ€™s work appropriate, nobody cares if I wear a pink fleece or a blue zip up
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โ€œOh youโ€™re just now getting up? Itโ€™s 2pm!??โ€ I WORK NIGHT SHIFT AND DIDNT GET HOME FROM WORK UNTIL 8 ๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก
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If youโ€™re the reporter who interviewed me about the first Covid surge and staffing, HEY come back, I wanna talk about the salary cap for nurses
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Lol this hospital is in a super fancy uppity area and the neighboring houses got together and actually threatened to sue because life flight was landing too often and was too loudโ€ฆโ€ฆ.I literally cannot imagine ever being so stupid and self absorbed
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Still wondering why I have to do both BLS and ACLS. If Iโ€™m ACLS certified it should cover both!!!
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Pt โ€œthis is bothering meโ€ Me โ€œwhatโ€™s bothering you?โ€ Pt *hands me their NG tube and all their abdominal wound packing*
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PLEASE DONT TRY TO FEED YOUR INTUBATED LOVED ONE MCDONALDS!!!!โ€ฆ..It will not in fact โ€œmake them feel betterโ€
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Can we please get a medical show that realistically portrays roles? Like can we stop showing physicians drawing blood and hanging their own meds on every patient while at the same time shows smart nurses as an active part of the team.
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Iโ€™ve been in ICU longer than youve been a doctor buddy. You donโ€™t need to chart how you โ€œeducated me on neuro assessmentsโ€
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Iโ€™m pretty sure if you woke me up for q1 hour neuro checks for two days straight I also would become delirious
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Major hospital *no beds available in 3 icus and no staff for stepdown and medsurg* Admin โ€œwe will no longer be offering incentive pay but please help your team by picking up!โ€
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Yโ€™all go ahead and cap nurse pay but healthcare gonna be self serve then. Donโ€™t expect someone will actually be there to take care of you
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Pay us more, let us wear what we want, staff us appropriately and for gods sake feed the night shift. It really isnโ€™t that hard to improve nursing retention. Yโ€™all hospitals just donโ€™t want to.
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Annnnd I just tried to swipe my badge to get into my own house
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Itโ€™s insane to me that an actual medical professional can prescribe or order something for a patient and insurance can just say โ€œnah famโ€
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I. AM. ENGAGED.
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Shout out to the local liquor store clerk who hadnโ€™t seen the patient in a few days so called in a welfare checkโ€ฆ..pt found down, massive CVA
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Me โ€œpatient doesnโ€™t have dopplerable pulse in foot, 10/10 pain, cool to touchโ€ Resident โ€œok thanks!โ€ Not quite the answer I was looking for
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Me โ€œheโ€™s a new septic shock admit and I literally never left the room trying to get him stableโ€ Day shift โ€œwhat was his WBC?โ€ Me โ€œwell heโ€™s in septic shock so like I bet itโ€™s highโ€ Gahhhhh ๐Ÿ˜ค
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Hereโ€™s a new one. Patients family unhooked the patients heart monitor to time how long it would take staff to fix it ๐Ÿฅด
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Me โ€œpt found down, unknown downtime, John Doe, full codeโ€ฆ.โ€ Bitch day shift nurse โ€œFULL CODE PER WHO?โ€ Me โ€œum the law?โ€ Day RN โ€œwell I need to knowโ€ Me โ€œheโ€™s an intubated John Doe with no paperwork. LEGALLY he has to be full codeโ€ Day RN proceeds to be rude the rest of report ๐Ÿ™„
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I honestly have no sympathy at all for people who lost their healthcare jobs because they refused to get vaccinated. Required vaccines in healthcare are not at all a new concept. You made a choice you knew had consequences. Bye ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป
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Documentary โ€œif a nurse finds patients irritating that means she lacks a basic quality for her jobโ€ Me โ€œyouโ€™ve clearly never been a nurseโ€
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My coworkers all went out for breakfast after work and didnโ€™t invite me but theyโ€™re happy to talk about it right in front of me. Here I am at 30 and this has been my whole life
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There. Is. Nothing. Wrong. With. Taking. Medication. For. Depression. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป
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I literally canโ€™t stand when people say ORIENTATED
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โ€œCode blue inpatient psychโ€ is right up there with L&D in terms of codes everybody is really hoping isnโ€™t real
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If you wondered healthy 30 year olds are still dying of Covid. I just watched it for the millionth time. Donโ€™t fucking tell me it doesnโ€™t happen
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Bless this new icu nurse who so calmly and casually walked up to me and asked for help because they needed to paralyze her very unstable patient and sheโ€™s never done it. I just wanted to yell YOURE DOING GREAT SWEETIE!!
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Dear management, the patients are not always right. Sometimes us nurses, doctors and techs actually have done everything we can and havenโ€™t done anything wrong and the patients are just unhappy
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The highest BP I ever saw was 300 systolic on a patient who was actively dissecting their aorta and I have never seen so many important people in a room or seen them in such a hurry
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Forever and always fuck day shifters who walk in at 7am and undermine and trash talk night shift who has been struggling for 12 hours just to keep the patient alive.
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Pt โ€œthese were bothering meโ€ Me โ€œwhatโ€™s bothering you?โ€ Pt *hands me NG tube and their abdominal surgical dressingโ€ ๐Ÿฅด๐Ÿฅด๐Ÿฅด๐Ÿฅด
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Extubated patient who also had foley pulled today is angry as hell and adamant that we shrunk his penis during his icu stayโ€ฆ..
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I swear to whatever deity is up in the sky that if Monkeypox pops off in the US I am 100% OUT. No. Im not doing this again.
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Whatโ€™s a โ€œmedical termโ€ you hear all the time from the general public that drives you crazy as a healthcare worker. For me itโ€™s โ€œin a comaโ€ ๐Ÿฅด
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