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The following is a rant. Skip if you want. It's no biggie.
Work was worky. It was absolutely ape shit when I first got in. Of course, that isn't too bad... except I had to deal with Second Shift and their shit. I asked them a question... why the hell were they giving me a lecture?! Just tell me the damned answer so I can fix the problem. I don't need for two of you to sit and complain about how no one ever tells you anything. If you'd shut your freakin' mouth and LISTEN, I bet someone HAS told you! Schmucks! I had a patient with a critically low hemaglobin and hematocrit so I was to do a type and screen on her to find out her blood type to facilitate cross matching blood for her to get the H&H levels up. I had an error on my analyzer. I asked them, "What do I do when the machine gives this code?" The dicked around for odds on 20 minutes before they told me what to do. ARGH! We could have lost the patient! (And I don't mean, misplacing the patient under the sofa, either.) Also, the two I asked had to make a big production out of the whole thing. Anyway, when I left at 7:00, the patient was needing another two units of blood. :S They drive me up the wall. Sorry for the rant. I'll go back and tag the top about skipping this part.
K. Rant over.
We had a patient in the ER who wouldn't urinate for the nurse. I don't know what was up there. I don't know the diagnosis or anything like that. He just wouldn't go. I asked if he would be more comfortable pissing in a bathroom alone. We were told he couldn't do that and he wouldn't let the nurses take his pants off. WTH? I decided to back away slowly from that conversation before I got involved. If the guy has a "shy bladder", maybe he CAN'T go in front of people. I should have suggested they put him on a saline drip (IV) and once he's finished it, have someone sneak into his room and scare him - then take the wet linens and do a drug screen on that. (Won't work but it was funny.)
Just remember, folks, no matter how bad you look naked, the ER nurses have seen worse. Much, much, much worse.
TMI Story (skip if you're squeamish - and I'm being totally serious with the warning!! This is a gross one!):
When I was in a Chemistry class one summer during my most recent college experience, I was teamed up with a man who was an RN. He was taking some "booster classes" to get his grades up to gain entry into a phys. assistant program at another school. His wife was a nurse. (I can't remember their names, sorry.) Most everyone in this class was in the class for some medical or allied health reason and we were discussing gross stuff. This guy had THE story: his wife was a nurse in training in the ER at a large hospital in Cleveland (I think). It was her first week. She and her fellow student were instructed by a nurse to take a patients blood. They go to see the patient and find that he's pretty wasted. He is an overdose patient. He's all groggy, fading in and out of consciousness but tells them that he has no veins in his arms so they will have to, uh, go "lower" to take his blood. Well, they look at his arms and he was correct, no veins. All dried up from shooting up. They look at his feet and legs, no veins... all dried up. They ask a head nurse what to do. She said the same thing that the patient did, go "lower" meaning, go for his penis. So, they explain what they have to do. Patient says he's been shooting up there as well though and it hurts sometimes. He passes out. They undress him. The one nurse goes to adjust the patient so she can draw his blood... his penis came off. In her hand. It was necrotic (dead tissue). She fainted. My classmates wife, a credit to nurses everywhere, raised the alarm about the passed out nursing student and the wounded patient. Of course, that story could be total bullshit because I'm getting the story second or third hand.
K. Gross story over.
Am now going to go watch some tv or something.
The following is a rant. Skip if you want. It's no biggie.
Work was worky. It was absolutely ape shit when I first got in. Of course, that isn't too bad... except I had to deal with Second Shift and their shit. I asked them a question... why the hell were they giving me a lecture?! Just tell me the damned answer so I can fix the problem. I don't need for two of you to sit and complain about how no one ever tells you anything. If you'd shut your freakin' mouth and LISTEN, I bet someone HAS told you! Schmucks! I had a patient with a critically low hemaglobin and hematocrit so I was to do a type and screen on her to find out her blood type to facilitate cross matching blood for her to get the H&H levels up. I had an error on my analyzer. I asked them, "What do I do when the machine gives this code?" The dicked around for odds on 20 minutes before they told me what to do. ARGH! We could have lost the patient! (And I don't mean, misplacing the patient under the sofa, either.) Also, the two I asked had to make a big production out of the whole thing. Anyway, when I left at 7:00, the patient was needing another two units of blood. :S They drive me up the wall. Sorry for the rant. I'll go back and tag the top about skipping this part.
K. Rant over.
We had a patient in the ER who wouldn't urinate for the nurse. I don't know what was up there. I don't know the diagnosis or anything like that. He just wouldn't go. I asked if he would be more comfortable pissing in a bathroom alone. We were told he couldn't do that and he wouldn't let the nurses take his pants off. WTH? I decided to back away slowly from that conversation before I got involved. If the guy has a "shy bladder", maybe he CAN'T go in front of people. I should have suggested they put him on a saline drip (IV) and once he's finished it, have someone sneak into his room and scare him - then take the wet linens and do a drug screen on that. (Won't work but it was funny.)
Just remember, folks, no matter how bad you look naked, the ER nurses have seen worse. Much, much, much worse.
TMI Story (skip if you're squeamish - and I'm being totally serious with the warning!! This is a gross one!):
When I was in a Chemistry class one summer during my most recent college experience, I was teamed up with a man who was an RN. He was taking some "booster classes" to get his grades up to gain entry into a phys. assistant program at another school. His wife was a nurse. (I can't remember their names, sorry.) Most everyone in this class was in the class for some medical or allied health reason and we were discussing gross stuff. This guy had THE story: his wife was a nurse in training in the ER at a large hospital in Cleveland (I think). It was her first week. She and her fellow student were instructed by a nurse to take a patients blood. They go to see the patient and find that he's pretty wasted. He is an overdose patient. He's all groggy, fading in and out of consciousness but tells them that he has no veins in his arms so they will have to, uh, go "lower" to take his blood. Well, they look at his arms and he was correct, no veins. All dried up from shooting up. They look at his feet and legs, no veins... all dried up. They ask a head nurse what to do. She said the same thing that the patient did, go "lower" meaning, go for his penis. So, they explain what they have to do. Patient says he's been shooting up there as well though and it hurts sometimes. He passes out. They undress him. The one nurse goes to adjust the patient so she can draw his blood... his penis came off. In her hand. It was necrotic (dead tissue). She fainted. My classmates wife, a credit to nurses everywhere, raised the alarm about the passed out nursing student and the wounded patient. Of course, that story could be total bullshit because I'm getting the story second or third hand.
K. Gross story over.
Am now going to go watch some tv or something.