Also sometimes perfectly good IVs go bad later, it happens! Your nurse didn’t automatically do a bad job if this happens to you. Knock it off.

@RNSuperHero All blood draws hurt. Hence the reason why I hate receiving needles.

@Misfit_CO_5280 I just had blood drawn on Monday, yes it didn’t feel great and yes I have a bruise. The tech did a great job. Needles suck

@FlyMeKate They can’t all be pretty but that doesn’t mean it’s not a good one!

@RNSuperHero We didn’t grow the veins we’re sticking either sometimes we miss or they blow because they’re fragile I have fragile veins & expectations are I’m going to be stuck more than once for IVs or lab draws

@Terihaynes As someone who has 1 nice vein if I’m dehydrated it’s a whole process

@RNSuperHero Um one time I intubated a dude when he coded in the gift shop and he filed a complaint with the ombudsman that I gave him a fat lip.

@fuzzymittens “Sorry sure next time I won’t give you an airway”

@Rickchik1 For fucks sake. I hate it here

@RNSuperHero I hear this at least once a month, smile and nod and internally shake my head.

@RNSuperHero I tell my patients the process of a blood draw. I even draw pictures. I show them how small a target it is and we dont have xray vision. Usually after i explain it, pts gain a new respect for the skill it takes to draw blood at all. 😊

@RNSuperHero About the only time I will gripe about a bruise from a blood draw is if they go fishing for the vein and I end up with a huge bruise that extends beyond the elbow.

@RNSuperHero Pt: don’t hurt me. Me: if I could invent a painless needle I wouldn’t be working anymore.

@RNSuperHero Also.. sometimes it doesn’t hurt in the slightest and I still bruise.

@RNSuperHero Yeah imagine if tattoo artists had press ganey’s - needles hurt no being around it

@RNSuperHero You never hear them criticize their surgeon for the incisional pain from a scalpel. Sometimes healing involves getting stuck w pointy things. The result is often worth temporary discomfort.

@RNSuperHero As a frequent flyer at my hospital, and I tell you that my veins are tricky, please call the nurse that can hit a vein the first time with no lidocaine. I love y’all, but I’ve been a pincushion and if I can get an IV without repeated pain, it helps my brain learn that it’s okay.

@RNSuperHero I let a new nurse practice ultrasound guided IVs on me. And I was bruised because physiology. Shit happens. Because platelets