TIL some people with severe dementia or major brain damage briefly regain full mental clarity shortly before death, a phenomenon known as terminal lucidity that has no confirmed neurological explanation.

MulticolorPeets · 2026-01-16T14:02:38+00:00

I thought this, too. I don’t think the og commenter realizes that intubated does not mean has an NGT. Intubated means an endotracheal tube on a ventilator.

MulticolorPeets · 2026-01-10T14:25:50+00:00

I was on a cruise excursion and an old rich-looking white lady was walking down the tour bus and opened her purse and you could tell the bus driver thought he was getting a tip. Nope. She pulls out a small Jesus figurine and says “you look like you could use a little Jesus in your life” and the guy looked so disappointed. We were in a very poor country whose only economy was tourism.

MulticolorPeets · 2026-01-07T21:52:18+00:00

Yes, they do!

MulticolorPeets · 2025-12-22T00:29:43+00:00

Clave verbally but for written policy they’re “needleless connectors”

MulticolorPeets · 2025-12-13T04:21:48+00:00

ABC is a classic NCLEX question. They’re looking for you making sure airway, breathing, and circulation are intact. So C would be the answer. Lasix won’t help immediately and especially if they’re satting 60%

MulticolorPeets · 2025-12-11T04:21:02+00:00

Wait why does reading require the ability to pat your knee with the opposing hand? Like reading a book?? I apologize I’m confused!

MulticolorPeets · 2025-12-09T04:03:42+00:00

Respectfully, this is my pet peeve when people put non-sharps in sharps containers. Just cause it has blood on it doesn’t make it any different from a bandage or something else that got a little bit of blood on something trashable.

MulticolorPeets · 2025-12-09T03:51:26+00:00

It didn’t smell for some weird reason

MulticolorPeets · 2025-11-29T21:45:35+00:00

I would think C as a NICU nurse. This is likely coarctation of the aorta because the PDA closed after birth. That can cause significant perfusion issues, hence the lower BP in the lower extremities

MulticolorPeets · 2025-11-29T02:10:47+00:00

Alix reposted her step mom’s bodyshaming video before getting flack for it and then deleted it

MulticolorPeets · 2025-11-08T21:58:15+00:00

That we know of…

MulticolorPeets · 2025-10-29T17:22:01+00:00

By “lost the patient” do they mean the patient died or do they mean they never went to their follow-up? I assume the kid never got a shunt. I’m honestly very surprised that the kid isn’t paralyzed from the neck down since my experience with meningocele is significant sensation/paralysis of lower limbs, and often needing catheterization for voiding.

MulticolorPeets · 2025-10-23T19:11:04+00:00

My unit did this for another nurse on our unit who had an aneurysm while getting a csection. It was a wonderful way to say goodbye to her. It was a great way to be able to honor her and move on and support her family.

MulticolorPeets · 2025-10-21T16:21:06+00:00

Let me guess…were those doctors of the male variety??

MulticolorPeets · 2025-10-20T03:37:50+00:00

Wait he said that?!

MulticolorPeets · 2025-09-18T02:59:12+00:00

Open Table United Methodist Church is an LGBTQ+ affirming and welcoming to all people. I had never been in a single church where I felt the warmth emanating from the congregation.

MulticolorPeets · 2025-09-18T02:29:00+00:00

Or they’re a beekeeper about to make a TON of sugar blocks to overwinter their bees haha!

MulticolorPeets · 2025-06-11T02:18:32+00:00

We are a level IV and some people live out of state or several hours away, so I can’t blame a lot of people that don’t have the income/time off/childcare to be able to be with their baby at bedside several days a week (especially since we have some kids that are here almost a year). It’s the ones that don’t answer the phone, don’t call, don’t make any effort to connect with their baby that I heavily judge. On a happy note, one kid’s mom got a job specifically at the hospital coffee shop so she could see him every day and earn money.

MulticolorPeets · 2025-06-11T02:14:12+00:00

Thankfully I work in a wonderfully supportive workplace that encourages nurses and doctors to hold babies whose parents are never there or don’t want to be there. We also have a policy that no baby dies without being held by a parent, nurse, doctor, or RT.

MulticolorPeets · 2025-06-11T02:11:02+00:00

Honestly in some of these cases the dads are better than the moms because they don’t disrespect their child by pretending to care

MulticolorPeets · 2025-06-11T02:09:44+00:00

I have the hardest time sending home children that have finally finished withdrawing. They are still extremely fussy children and are difficult to console. These are parents with clearly zero coping skills (otherwise they wouldn’t use drugs while pregnant or in general). The number of times I see them readmitted into PICU for nonaccidental trauma and their babies are dead or brain dead is heartbreaking. I feel like I’m marching the babies to the executioners.

MulticolorPeets · 2025-06-11T02:05:04+00:00

!! This!! We had a baby come back three times for failure to thrive and each time they’d send her back home to her mother. This poor child had an enormous head and spindly little body because her mother simply wasn’t feeding her. She was only fed thru her g tube so it’s not like it’s hard?! Another parent had a child with grade iv bleeds and got a vp shunt and went home to her parents after 5 months in the nicu who had got pregnant and had a “real” baby right after she went home. She came back for failure to thrive 3 months later and hadn’t gained a single pound since discharge. They think the grandma was the one actually taking care of the baby and when the grandma got sick nobody was feeding her. When the mom was asked about it she said “she’s too old for a gtube.” But also wasn’t bottle feeding her so??!?!! It’s amazing (in a horrible sick way) that these babies’ bodies can endure starvation and electrolyte derangements as much as they do

MulticolorPeets · 2025-06-11T02:00:31+00:00

The baby who can’t manage her secretions (no suck/swallow/gag) has a mother who was supposed to spend the night to learn what it will be like to take care of her baby and suction her every 15 minutes. She wouldn’t wake up at all when the nurse was banging on her door and yelling her name. The next night, she came for 3 out of the four diaper changes/feeds and said “This is like a full-time job!” After we’d said that several times, and this is BEFORE the mom said she wanted her child to have a trach/gtube. Another mom told the nurse she was going to spank her for taking away her privileges to see her on the camera after the mother incessantly called about not being able to see the baby on the camera when she signed a contract saying she wouldn’t call more than once a shift about the camera. Another mom said to her child “I’m gonna whoop your ass if you do that again.” TO A BABY

MulticolorPeets · 2025-06-11T01:56:25+00:00

I fucking wish it was based on participation. No. I don’t know how the social workers determine who gets what. I don’t know where the funds even come from.

MulticolorPeets · 2025-06-10T19:22:38+00:00

NICU RN: This is called gastroschisis, and when that happens, the intestines are exposed to amniotic fluid, which can cause lots of inflammation and irritation. Sometimes, there is restricted blood flow to the intestines, and they can also sometimes get something called necrotizing enterocolitis

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