If a nurse floats to your floor, treat them like a guest. Don’t load them with a shit assignment. Don’t give them the smelly crazy guy. Show them where the candy stash is. Develop a reputation you can be proud of.
I put rose scented lotion on my 83 year old pt after her bath and 88 year old hubby wanted to know brand so he could buy it for her. Also I caught them smooching several times. ☺️☺️☺️
How to turn your patient easily in prone position? You simply need 3 pillows & 2 sheets. Look at this short video we made. Thanks to our great nurses🥰.
#proneposition
One time during report a nurse told me pt did great she slept all night. I go in and wake her and she had massive stroke overnight. I’ll remember that until I die.
I guarantee the guilt of me letting you sleep and missing something absolutely catastrophic will outweigh the guilt of me having to wake up during your short hospital stay.
ETOH pt had emergent trach and vented for a few days. Fussy sister at his bedside whole time. He transferred to us and finally ready for a passy muir. We popped it on, he looked over and his first words since being trached were “fuck you *Brenda!” *name changed. 🤣🤣🤣
Pt girlfriend laying in bed with them, “can I get something for a headache and something to take it with?”
Me: gift shop opens at 8.
Pt gf: You’re fired we want a new charge nurse.
Me:
Can we stop this fucking narrative that LTC nurses are lesser than hospital ones? It’s not easier it’s not harder, it’s DIFFERENT. I CHOOSE to work here and your meemaws are in excellent hands.
Due to covid we’re only allowing vaccinated visitors. This is of course infuriating my hospice pt’s unvaccinated grandson, who I’ve never seen visit until he was told he couldn’t…
If your patient is soiled and you leave the room to pull the tech out of another room to help you instead of asking someone who is just sitting to help, then you’re a bitch and I’m coming for you
Me: hey doc can I give pt a little valium they’re nervous and shaking.
Doc: tell them to relax it’ll be over soon.
Me: is that what you say on dates?
Doc: 5 of valium, ya smartass
Flight attendants made everyone wait to deplane until a group of four got off first. Rushing to hospital to see dying mother. I will stab every single person who complained
If you use your call light and tell the CNA to send me in immediately and I stop what im doing and rush right in and you tell me that your meemaw needs more ice water, then you are an ASSHOLE.
Who the fuck calls them “sick” days anymore. It’s PTO. Paid time off. To do with what you like. And you’re not required to tell anyone what you’re doing with that PTO, whether you’ve got pneumonia or athlete’s foot or you just need…..a day. It’s your time to use.
A pt threatening my staff’s lives and calling me a cuntrag because they can’t have Mountain Dew is not because they’re having a frightening experience.
Yesterday I told one of my favorite surgeons I was leaving the unit.
Her: aww aren’t you gonna miss this?
Other surgeon stomps by: NURSE?! WHERE THE FUCK CAN I GET A SUTURE KIT?!
Me:
Tired of friends and my fucking dipshit coworkers asking how I’m feeling after getting the vaccine. They don’t really give a fuck how I’m doing. Stop being a pussy and get it yourselves. Assholes. Oh and your new bangs look fucking stupid.
My nurse: paging because pt might have 2nd degree block? I went ahead and did an EKG.
Cards resident: nice try it’s probably just sinus brady. *hangs up*
STOP BEING FUCKING DICKS HOLY FUCK
Called RT for a neb for my pt today and they kept giving me bullshit on why they couldn’t come do it so I pulled it and gave it myself.
RT when they found out:
Two different but equally lazy techs at shift change said no to a nurse asking for help with a patient. Little did they know MY boss came in early, saw it all, and gave them both most epic ass chewing EVAR. Here is the rest of the staff present for the show:
My RN: Pt BP is 180/110, paging per orderset.
1st yr Resident: THATS WHAT THE PRN HYDRALAZINE IS FOR! ENOUGH ALREADY!
Later that day.....
Attending to my RN: you page those turds for every BP. Got it?
Overheard a few nursing students complaining that our unit smells. I just took a level 5 biohazard ☣️ crap in the bathroom in the room they use for conference.