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Charlotte she had her first seizure when she was 3 months old. Over the next few months, the girl, affectionately called Charlie, had frequent seizures lasting two to four hours, and she was hospitalized repeatedly. By the time she was 3, Charlotte was having up to 300 grand mal seizures every week. Eventually, she lost the ability to walk, talk and eat. The seizures were so severe Charlotte’s heart stopped a number of times. Doctors suggested putting the c***d in a medically induced c*** to give her small, battered body a rest. Her father, Matt, found a similar case online in which medical ma… 阅读更多内容

I am free to refuse treatment even if that goes against my interests. Your professional status does not trump my autonomy and bodily sovereignty… Unless I am in immediate danger and unable to provide informed consent, they don’t get to make decisions concerning my body and my health on my behalf. It’s time you people drop this whole authoritarian attitude. This was the dialog between myself an a patient about shaving her pubic hair before surgery (vaginal suspension and rectocele surgery) There is a misunderstanding of what that point means. YES you are absolutely, entitled to informed conse… 阅读更多内容

1. “Patient has left white blood cells at another hospital.” 2. “She has no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night.” 3. “On the second day, the knee was better, and on the third day it disappeared.” 4. “The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed.” 5. “Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch.” 6. “The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1993.” 7. “While in ER, she was examined, X-rated and sent home.” 8. “Patient was present when suppository was inserted.” 9. “Patient vo… 阅读更多内容

This Nurse’s Week I am thankful for my coworkers and the awesome nurses I see everyday. I go home each day exhausted, but smiling because in them I see the remarkable. I could not do my job without the amazing, compassionate, intelligent nurses that I am honored to call my peers. I see nurses go above and beyond each and everyday. I see them decorating their patient’s room just to get a smile. I see them buying meals and Christmas presents for their patient’s young ch*ldren. I see them spending an hour of their already busy day to wash, untangle and braid a patient’s hair. I see them move hea… 阅读更多内容

Working in a teaching hospital associated with USA Medical School, we were frequently subjected to USA Medical Students on their clinical rotations. We also worked with medical students from less well-known medical schools in the country. Most of those "lesser" medical students were wonderful to work with, but the students from USA were often a little out of touch with the realities of life on the Med/Surg floor. One day when we were particularly short staffed and slammed with admissions and discharges, a USA iv (or fourth year medical student from USA Medical School) showed up to practice d… 阅读更多内容

I'm the clinical instructor of a first year student in her first month of clinicals in general surgery. She gave this report on her patient to me this morning prior to scheduled surgery. “My patient Mr. X is a 45-year-old gentleman who has been diagnosed to have a stageII calcium stomach.” I started to giggle, I had never heard calcium stomach. When I checked the patient’s history, As I had surspected it turned out to be carcinoma stomach: – "CA Stomach" We really need to work on her chart reading skills… 阅读更多内容

Co-Workers can be fun, annoying, challenging, hilarious, and sometimes make you raise an eyebrow… 1. The Lovable Slacker That hilarious nurse who always makes you laugh, has a way with words, and yet somehow hasn’t accomplished any of their assigned tasks leaving chaos erupting in each of their patient rooms. The nurse with feet up, socializing, while their patient is found dead at shift change. Thanks for being you, but seriously, do a little work, mk?! 2. The Professor The “everything is a teaching moment” pathophysiology wiz, the nurse who knows everything about every disease process, and… 阅读更多内容

In the mid 70's my mother and father had a son my brother Mark. Sometime after his birth dad began to have doubts about the paternity of my brother. This lead to a divorce shorty afterwards but they couldn't or wouldn't stay away from one another and mother was soon pregnant with me and they married for the second time. This second marriage went badly also and they divorced a second time soon after my birth in 1979. Mother when to work in a small convenience store in a small college town in central Alabama were my fathers family lived and continues to live. It was at this time in her life that… 阅读更多内容

I am the strong ones. That's what I tell myselves. It almost becomes a badge of honor to be able to handle anything without falling apart. I fear looking weak. If i let my feelings come forward, I might fall apart. So I carried around all the stories everyday for years. They were a heavy burden. They weighed on my soul. They made me grow weary. I grew exhausted with hearing the screams, tears, cries, that went along with these stories. So I invented the imaginary box in my head. I put all of it in there. I close that box tightly on the way home from work. No one outside of another nurse would… 阅读更多内容

It was a first date peppered with those strange little questions to fill the silence. It already was not going well. “So,” he asks, “what’s it like to be a nurse?” ‘What’s it like?’ I think. ‘It is first thing in the morning a drive-by glance of your two patients telling you that, one will need more attention, more support, more everything. It is clear that this patient is flirting with the white light and it is your job to keep him on this side. It is overwhelming guilt for the other patient getting less of you It is the burden of knowing that the information you relay to the res… 阅读更多内容

“No, leave me alone!” she screamed as we attempted to examine her. Her body was frail, her bones forming sharp edges where contours once were. Her eyes rolled back in her head as she struggled for breath. I quickly assessed the scene, 2 bags of saline were running wide open just to keep her systolic blood pressure in the 80s. She was incoherent and relatively unresponsive as I tried to gather history. Her husband stood at the bed side trying to maintain calm in the chaos of ER nurses, techs, and now physicians, rapidly assessing his wife. Though she was obviously sick, one thing wa… 阅读更多内容

1 There is no pressure like being in the code of a 23 year old you were talking to 20 minutes ago while their mother stands in the door way begging you to save them. 2 There is no silence like the one at the nurse’s station while everyone is gloved up and waiting for the arrival of the fire department that just called to report they’re on the way with someone in full cardiac arrest. 3 It’s easier to tell your friends about the funny stories and the funny patients. You keep the sad ones to yourself. 4 It’s hard to get someone to care about following up with a prim… 阅读更多内容

It upsets me that nurses are notorious for “eating their young.” There is NO REASON for a nurse to be like that. I don’t care if your assignment sucks and you don’t want to work with a student. I don’t care if you think the student shadowing you is too quiet or doesn’t have the “right personality” for your certain setting: chances are they are quiet because they can sense the disdain oozing from you, and they probably don’t want to specialize in whatever area you’re in anyway! I have been a registered nurse now for seven years. I have mentored new grads, I have worked with students going t… 阅读更多内容