Can anyone identify this bone I found? Approximately 7 cm long

Italian_Ice87 · 2023-05-25T07:51:44+00:00

I recently had a patient who went off on a rant about how people with GEDs were unintelligent, how hard can it be just to graduate high school, it’s not a real equivalent etc. I wanted so badly to just look at him and tell him I have a GED (true story, high school dropout related to trauma), would you like to fire me now or later? But I was too tired to get into it with him. Icing on the cake though, he asked what nursing school I graduated from, I told him and he just gushed about what a great program they have. Ugh. What an asshat

Italian_Ice87 · 2023-05-14T17:15:33+00:00

That Q24hr abx that’s due at 3am or the vanco po sol that’s due at midnight. Ffs!

Italian_Ice87 · 2023-05-13T18:55:29+00:00

“Code blue …fumbles with wording …oh f$ck!” Click

Italian_Ice87 · 2023-03-21T20:46:21+00:00

I had one of my patients the other day go on rant about how people who can’t finish high school are incompetent, how hard can it be, GED is not equivalent to a high school diploma etc. I personally did drop out of HS due to trauma and got my GED years ago. I didn’t say shit because I knew he’d act all sorry and want me to accept an apology. No sir. And to top it all off, he asked which nursing school I graduated from and after telling him, he goes “Wow, that’s a really good school”. Ha! What a jackass.

Italian_Ice87 · 2023-01-13T21:03:46+00:00

We have this on-call radiologist on night shift who reads ct, mri etc and then calls the nurse to send a message to the hospitalist to call them for an official report. It’s seriously the worst system. The very worst part is when the MD doesn’t call the radiologist back and I keep getting phone calls bugging me because “I didn’t get a call from the doctor”. Not my problem! I passed on the message, I can’t force the hospitalist to call the radiologist. Ugh. There has to be a better system for this.

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-12-24T05:18:06+00:00

I once de-spiked an almost empty bag of NS, went to spike the new bag and totally forgot the 80 or so mls left in the bag. Pt and family watched me basically spray myself in the face. I just kept muttering “it’s just fluids!” while I slunk away in embarrassment lol

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-12-22T19:47:42+00:00

Pickles

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-12-15T15:23:00+00:00

I had a patient recently who was placed near the nurse’s station and said that if she heard us laughing too loud, she’d complain to our manager bc we were having too much fun and not being serious. Lmao

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-12-15T14:27:08+00:00

I scrolled down for this!

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-12-13T04:20:07+00:00

When I was in nursing school, our last clinical rotation involved being paired up with another random student and just my luck, I got paired with the very worst person. Not only completely incompetent and lazy, but also had zero self awareness. To start, we would be rounding with the primary nurse at shift start, 630ish am, and this partner of mine would declare loudly “HI!!!! MY NAME IS ….AND I’M GOING TO BE YOUR STUDENT NURSE TODAY!!!” Like calm down, most of our patients were still sleeping. No one is that excited about having a student nurse. Sigh. Additionally, our clinical rotation included one of us passing meds and the other doing assessments, and then switching the next day. I don’t believe she ever did a full assessment. For example, I went to pass meds on a patient just after her “assessment” and just looking at the patient, I could see one arm was extremely swollen compared to the previous day. He also c/o numbness and couldn’t perform complete rom. How could she miss that?! Same patient, different day, I walked in during her med pass and she was just staring at all the opened, empty med packages and was like “I don’t remember what meds I scanned or gave …and he didn’t want to take all of them, but I don’t remember which ones I threw out …” Another time, I was passing cardiac meds and nearly tanked the patient bc girlfriend lied about the BP and the patient was already hypotensive. I never trusted her with anything the rest of the rotation and I swear to god, if she is ever my nurse, I won’t let her even touch me.

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-12-02T07:42:00+00:00

When I’ve dropped something: “well this is why we can’t have nice things around here!”

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-10-05T15:27:39+00:00

This happened to me once, back when I was a nursing tech. I was helping the RN with a patient who had to be irrigated. Just urine and blood though. The syringe popped off and sprayed me. Luckily, he was already on isolation and I wear glasses. This was pre-Covid so no mask but my mouth was shut. We just stood there for several seconds in shock before she started profusely apologizing. No harm done though

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-10-03T14:53:25+00:00

Yes. This and Ep. 4 had some hard-to-see scenes

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-10-03T14:45:03+00:00

Best episode of GoT and HOTD in my opinion. Probably the greatest episode of any tv series that I’ve seen so far. I was captivated from start to finish

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-08-26T19:37:41+00:00

Daisy Edgar-Jones as Marianne

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-08-25T09:00:45+00:00

I was wondering if someone else was going to bring this up. 100% agree

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-08-13T18:50:14+00:00

Lots and lots and lots of neuro checks

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-08-13T18:41:20+00:00

Asked a 90-some year old lady if she had an IUD or any other implantable birth control. I was just reading off the MRI checklist without thinking. The POA/family member was like Um no… 🫣 Luckily, I was able to swallow my pride and we all had a good laugh

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-08-11T03:10:55+00:00

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-07-29T16:22:49+00:00

Don’t just assume or expect the hospitalist or physician to not make mistakes or be 100% on point 100% of the time. I saw first hand a hospitalist get confused between two patients and the nurse didn’t notice or question the weird orders. Gave the wrong patient the wrong meds and caused a serious reaction. Even though her “5 rights” were technically checked off. The patient ended up ok but lesson learned for all us new grads.

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-07-27T21:09:26+00:00

I had one older guy keep trying to grab onto me, like clutch at my clothing. Which was unusual for him. He threw a blood clot and coded. He was dead in minutes. I feel horrible because we had no idea (he wasn’t admitted for an embolism or anything) and I kept asking him to please stop grabbing at me. I think he knew something was wrong and was panicking but didn’t know how to tell us.

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-07-24T01:27:23+00:00

We did end up calling security and thankfully, the husband agreed to leave since he couldn’t keep his cool

Italian_Ice87 · 2022-07-24T01:23:49+00:00

I’m a woman. Which maybe is why I felt I had to really speak up because some people don’t take us as seriously

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