You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

Wonderful writing; thank you. I can definitely relate--on a quiet afternoon holding a baby in my arms and getting paid for it, wow--there are days we have the best job in the world . Even the worst day with a screamer suddenly turns around when the baby stops screaming and smiles for a millisec--that's all it takes .

I've spent many nights holding a newborn. Rocking & thinking how blessed I was to be in this profession! But then, I've also had the loose stool patients, etc.....LOL

Quote from cgtravelI've spent many nights holding a newborn. Rocking & thinking how blessed I was to be in this profession! But then, I've also had the loose stool patients, etc.....LOL

Quote from VivaLasViejas........Another time, an aide and I were cleaning up after a patient who'd been incontinent of a rather impressive river of loose stool..........in fact, it was pouring off the bed and splattering on the floor (not to mention our shoes). Why I was reminded just then of the need to pick up some chocolate fudge cake mix on the way home, I'll never know, but when I said as much, the aide turned a funny shade of green and fled the room!

Quote from cgtravelI've spent many nights holding a newborn. Rocking & thinking how blessed I was to be in this profession! But then, I've also had the loose stool patients, etc.....LOL

I'm not a nurse but I did work at a clinic once and a patient walked in hoping to be seen in GYN because she had put a potato in her "lady part". True story. Another time, and one of my supervisors told me this story, one woman came in because she had gotten an 8 ball stuck in there too. Wow! How does that happen??

Omg! Lol! On all the "gross stuff" especially the Brunswick soup. Oh nurses! This is why I love all you guys.

had a nursing supervisor run out of a postpartum room, shouting that there was a baby emergency in a room...we all ran in -expecting a choking baby-to see a very poopy diaper-need I say that this supervisor had no kids of her own...

way back when, as the story goes, women used potatoes as pessaries, for a "dropped uterus"

My first job as a nurse was at a nursing home. One of the other nurses had a patient call 911 because she had not had her Milk of Magnesia. One night on 11-7 we had a lady in a chair at the nurses station with wrist restraints on. The restraints were loose enough that she was able to get things out of her purse. She would take out a plastic knife to cut the restraints and we would take it away. Then out would come another knife. I can't tell you how many times I've done trach care or have had my hand in someone's abdominal wound or stage 4 ulcer, then I've washed my hands and gone to lunch.

I haven't laughed like this at nursing in a while I needed that thanks.

Quote from rumpstickerI haven't laughed like this at nursing in a while I needed that thanks.