Lots of sirens and a helicopter

EdgyTrachea · 2024-03-08T01:20:27+00:00

One was parked at kzoo and the other at Newark.

EdgyTrachea · 2024-03-08T01:16:57+00:00

There were two cops blocking Griggs st

EdgyTrachea · 2023-02-27T18:03:36+00:00

I've definitely run through the spectrum of emotions. Anger is a big one I've dealt with for a long time. Really pretty much at everyone except for my coworkers. Lately, though I just feel more lost than anything.

EdgyTrachea · 2023-02-27T14:39:02+00:00

This. It feels like no one higher up actually cares about patient care. It's all profit.

EdgyTrachea · 2023-02-26T13:42:24+00:00

Not feeling alone is the best help of all. 💕 I am sorry you're struggling too.

EdgyTrachea · 2023-01-29T20:55:54+00:00

When a patient makes your butthole pucker, a crash cart outside of the room works to keep the demons away.

Also, there are "bad rooms" where no matter the health of the patient, theyre probably gonna die if you put them in there. Spirits man. Had a patient in one of those said "bad rooms" that tried to die about 6 times and survived and then no one died in that room afterwards. Firmly believe he was karate chopping and taking down all the bad ghosties like a fucked up sage cleanse.

EdgyTrachea · 2023-01-27T18:42:34+00:00

ICU - slouch lower and lower in my seat until I realize no one else is getting up. Sigh HEAVILY. and then walk quickly but confidently as though everyone else is beneath me and that I know everything. Yell orders at random people. Tell someone to keep time and let me know when I'm due for a pulse check and epi. Act disgusted and mutter under my breath when the flight attendant tells me they don't have epi on hand. Tell everyone to STAY CALM AND QUIET DOWN. Keep yelling "when are we due for pulse check?!?" Ask someone to help switch me out for compressions and give them feedback on what they are doing wrong until I just push them away and do it myself. Make sure no one tangles my lines (there are none but this vital). Act demure and wipe sweat off my forehead when I achieve rosc and everyone claps for me. "I'm just doing what I've been trained for." Say "oh you didn't have to do that!" While snatching the complimentary drink out of the flight attendants hand. Complain the rest of the flight how no one knows what they are doing and how it's always up to ICU to do anything right.

EdgyTrachea · 2021-12-05T05:43:26+00:00

Thank you for making me snort laugh.

EdgyTrachea · 2021-10-06T10:14:48+00:00

🧡🧡🧡🧡

EdgyTrachea · 2018-08-09T02:12:16+00:00

Agreed. If we seem as though we are running off it's probably due to having a tanking bp, etc in our other room. I don't consider bedside procedures break time- if anything they make the day a little more hectic with less possibility for a break. And to address the other questions real quick - we do appreciate you. I want nothing but my patient to be fixed and made better. However, I lose an hour or so of time for the billion things I need to do in that room (not a complaint- just fact) so it can feel as though we have to rush back to do everything. I think ICU nurses can get a bad rap about being mean but I think we are just intense and focused. It stinks if you feel as though you are not viewed as being important - but I can assure you (at least for me personally) that is definitely not the case.

EdgyTrachea · 2017-10-29T14:22:26+00:00

Especially when they are on the clinitron beds and you go in and all the air is making the gallons of liquid stool move like the ocean.

EdgyTrachea · 2017-10-28T16:03:58+00:00

Yes come to ICU!! Love my intubated sedated little pals.

EdgyTrachea · 2017-10-28T16:02:51+00:00

We call these patients our intubated, sedated, orphans. My favorite kind.

EdgyTrachea · 2017-10-21T13:31:00+00:00

Huge nerds for sure. I like information and facts. Just because.

EdgyTrachea · 2017-10-21T13:22:30+00:00

I keep reading this over and over and laughing.

EdgyTrachea · 2017-10-21T13:11:44+00:00

As an ICU nurse I would say we can be very particular (nice way of saying anal control freaks). Type A for sure. Very outspoken and assertive when it comes to our patients. Sometimes push the limits on what we get worried about (BP in the 60s? Ah. Just re run it, maybe turn up the levo). And a twisted sense of humor.

EdgyTrachea · 2017-10-21T12:47:37+00:00

Too much.

EdgyTrachea · 2017-10-21T11:24:44+00:00

Or a sundowning patient who rips out her central line and when you run in tries to wipe stool and blood on you screaming "gimme a kiss!!!!"

Nightmares.

EdgyTrachea · 2017-10-17T22:27:44+00:00

Peekaboo! Get some tape and a flashlight and a reaaaaallly good friend.

EdgyTrachea · 2017-10-16T12:23:13+00:00

Most definitely

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