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There is something deeply disturbing about watching one of New York City's most prestigious healthcare institutions continue to describe itself as a leader in compassionate, innovative, patient-centered care while the reality facing some of its most vulnerable patients increasingly looks very different. Mount Sinai talks about expanding access, investing in behavioral health, caring for the community, and being a leader in medicine. Yet at the same time, the community is watching inpatient psychiatric capacity shrink, a specialized geriatric psychiatric unit prepare to close for years, and now, according to recent reporting, restrictions on accepting some new patients with certain government-backed insurance plans. At what point are New Yorkers allowed to stop listening to the carefully chosen corporate language and start looking at the consequences of these decisions? Mount Sinai's motto is “We Find a Way.” It's a powerful promise for a healthcare institution to make. It suggests that
I have been an RN for 15 years. Originally BSN, got MSN in Nursing education in 2018. I spent 9 years in the hospital (cardiac med/surg, CV/procedural with cath lab/IR/EP lab prep and recovery, pre-op). I then went to work in K-12 as a nurse for 6 years. I have no gaps in my resume. I was still managing T1D pumps, trachs, gtubes, seizures, overdoses, etc. It was also very case management and computer heavy, so not using as much of my bedside skills, but I would not call myself "non-clinical" those 6 years. I quit several months ago and thought it would be a breeze to find a clinical job. I have mostly been applying for procedural units, Preop/PACU, Endoscopy, clinic nursing. I feel qualified for all of those, sure, it would take me a little to get back into the swing of things, but I am a quick learner. I can do IVs in my sleep! My resume is not even being sent to hiring managers. I am using AI to tailor each resume for the specific job, but still no luck. I have BLS, CV certification,
I recently accepted a job as a school nurse (never done school nursing) and have 4 years of experience as an RN. Let me preface by saying I absolutely did not think it was going to be a cake walk like some people believe and was prepared for challenges thrown my way. What I was NOT prepared for is the absolute chaos and disorganization I walked into. Sooooo many duplicates of supplies spread all over the damn place, an EXPIRED undesignated inhaler, paperwork I have no idea if important or not all over the office, in drawers, etc. you get it, a total hot mess cluster fuck. Unlocked med cabinet (district nurse has no idea if there’s even a KEY FOR IT) that has controls. Medications without proper emergency plan forms or medication authorization forms…I just need to know from fellow school nurses, is this what the job is supposed to look like? Everything seems like a total liability and everyone seems so laissez faire about it all. I feel like I’m going insane trying to organize and make
I’m a nurse at an assisted living facility. Been here 1.5 years. My coworker asked me to work for her next week. I asked her if we could swap days and she could work a day for me next week too. She told me that management won’t let her, but didn’t specify why. I figured it was bc she picks up a lot of OT, but we’re just swapping days that are the same week/pay period so it shouldn’t matter. I reached out to management yesterday (with her permission) asking them if we could swap days. They said yes and to fill out a sheet (I have it in writing (text message)). I thought all was dandy. I went ahead and booked a little getaway for my boyfriend and I. Well now management reached out to me today saying that they actually can’t approve it bc that would mean she would be working 8 days in a row. Technically I could cancel my getaway, but I would have to do it by tomorrow otherwise I won’t get my refund. And I was looking forward to it. They said that I would need to make other arrangements, o
I sat in my car after and just cried a little. Not the sad tears. It just came come out because when something you worked so hard for finally and actually happens. I’m still in caregiving in a way, just from the ownership side, and I’m excited. I own 3 adult living homes now. I started this with no business knowledge at all, just years of bedside experience and a refusal to quit. I didn’t know financing, licensing, staffing, any of it. I found the right people who navigate licensed operation, leaned on them hard and kept going even when I wanted to give up and stay where it was safe. Tomorrow I’m not clocking in anywhere. I’m just processing all still. Mine. Or Whatever word fits when you finally get to stand fully inside the thing you built. 8 years got me here. I’m not the same person who started that first shift and I’m so proud of her for not quitting. submitted by /u/Capital-Tip-8428 [link] [comments]
Background: new grad nightshift L&D 2025, left LD for outpatient dayshift, dislike outpatient and getting bullied in role by management. Wanting to go back to bedside. Desperately wanting to go back to bedside. I know, wild. I miss the relationships with patients and using my nursing knowledge. I was struggling so bad with the anxiety of LD high stakes nature combined with nightshift so I left to go dayshift 5 8’s which is horrific. 5 days is not for me. Have applied to only LD/PP jobs but keep getting nightshift offers. I left LD because of nightshift and the anxiety with it. Now, as desperate as I am to get out of my current role (bullying & hating 5 days a week) I’m considering going back to nights even though I hate nights. Is this silly? I feel like a failure in my 1.5 career as a nurse. I can’t seem to land dayshift in my speciality of choice. I’m constantly anxious feeling like I’ll never find where I fit in or a place I’ll ever truly be good at. I hate that I left bedside so ea
Seasoned icu rn here. When does the field of medicine cross the line for you? When is it too much treatment? Too much fluid pushed in a code, too much sedation, too much delirium. What was your breaking point? submitted by /u/Spirited-Pangolin219 [link] [comments]
What’s it like to work in a burn unit? The two major level 1 traumas in my area both have them but I never have any exposure to them. Are they ICUs? Do people really get their skin scrubbed or is that an old thing? Lots of pain? I imagine it’s difficult to work there. submitted by /u/Living-Pace-5263 [link] [comments]
Hi. I work in an ER. One shift I came back to the ER from delivering a patient to the unit and noticed a new patient already slotted in the room. I grabbed an ice pack after seeing what she was there for and as I approached the room she was flippppppping out screaming that no one is helping her. I tried to calm her down but she kept going off, really yelling at me. I didn’t say anything mean back to her but know I probably sounded annoyed when answering at this point because she wouldn’t stop. Cut to now I see she wrote a google review using my name saying how I’m such a terrible nurse don’t deserve to practice, and she’s going to write to someone higher up about me. I’m just really freaking out about this submitted by /u/Extension-Salt237 [link] [comments]
The charge nurse for my unit on night shift is a new grad who’s been on the unit 9 months. Nobody stays due to low staffing: 6:1, no PCT/CNA, supply problems, and ridiculous and redundant charting expectations. I spend HOURS being a CNA, answering call lights for my patients AND other nurse’s patients, particularly bed alarms. VS every 4 hours on all patients. New admit? Good luck to my other 5 patients, they’re on their own for at least 2 hours, maybe more depending on the admit. No time for breaks or lunches most nights. Lucky to squeeze-in a run to the bathroom. On my days off, I just want to stay in bed. I love my bed. It’s peaceful there. Is it like this everywhere inpatient? Excluding the well-known and regarded 4:1 in California. I’m in the rural Midwest, with very few healthcare options, but also the regional hub for all the tiny rural access hospitals that send us their patients. submitted by /u/Conscious_Wind_5132 [link] [comments]
I just shadowed a nurse today and it was such an amazing experience. I got to interact with the sweetest patients man😭. I have no words to describe what i feel right now lol. Seeing people on one of their worst days of their lives and seeing them making jokes and laughing about the small stuff…yeaa people are amazing. And also i felt like i made a difference or did sth important lol, i did not do anything i just stood there and watched the nurse take care of the patients but it made me feel so fulfilled. Man i cant wait to become a nurse. submitted by /u/Public-Long-97 [link] [comments]
Now he is admitting MMR vaccine is not lethal according to headline news… it is kind of late for this.. I tried posting a link via CNN and it was removed by reddit submitted by /u/Feisty-Power-6617 [link] [comments]
As a floor nurse, I was surprised by this newly published review and meta-analysis in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. I’ve found so many confused, elderly patients wiggling out of bed who were 100% unable to walk safely without a heavy assist of 1-2. Without the bed alarm AND the ability to respond quickly, I’m certain they’d have fallen. Ofc, that’s just anecdotal evidence, but I’ve always found safe staffing ratios to be the most important factor in fall prevention. What do y’all think? submitted by /u/literally-the-nicest [link] [comments]
For context, I work on a PCU with 16 beds. Ratio is normally 1:3 (if patients meet certain criteria) or 1:4 (if typical progressive care assignment). We normally have one or two 1:3 assignments and the rest are 1:4. Recently, our hospital decided that med surg nurses can no longer float to our unit due to higher acuity and lack of training for those nurses. They did this while only having a very small number of progressive trained float nurses. And can’t pull from ICU’s due to lack of staffing in those areas as well. I had a bad night, I’m pregnant, was super nauseous half the night and couldn’t sleep. I decided to use a sick day. I reached out to the nightshift charge nurse to let her know I wouldn’t be coming in and needed to use sick time. Her response was “can you reconsider? There were only three of you scheduled for dayshift, one of the other nurses called out sick as well, so we would only have one nurse on” (the remaining nurse is not trained yet to be a charge nurse, and I am,
Are there any nurses here who considered other career paths? If nursing wasn't an option, what would you have done instead and why? submitted by /u/nrems [link] [comments]
Do you get annoyed when your resource nurse is knocking out some of your tasks in the background to keep your workload more manageable? I notice the older heads appreciate the extra hand, but the newer nurses get a little territorial with their assignments. One of the newer nurses sat me down the other day and said I was “helping out too much” and that people were complaining. Disclaimer: I’m only 4 years into the game as an ER nurse, but even I realize nursing is a team sport. There’s no true solo act in this profession submitted by /u/YayArea95 [link] [comments]
I have been a nurse for a few years before transferring to the ED, same inner-city hospital. It never ceases to amaze me just how different the ED patient population is from the inpatient population. I have seen my fair share of shit before, but nothing compares to this secret society that exists in the ED. MY GOD. It feels like a simulation sometimes. But I LOVE IT! submitted by /u/Glittering_Joke1969 [link] [comments]
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Hi everyone, I just wanted to ask for your opinions about a situation my brother is currently facing. My brother is a nurse working in a public hospital. They have a patient who needs to be airlifted to a better-equipped hospital because it's a medical emergency. The hospital is in a very isolated area, so the fastest way to transfer the patient is by a small airplane. Here's the problem: • None of the nurses assigned to the transfer (including my brother) have been trained for this specific job. • The aircraft is very small and doesn't have the proper equipment you'd normally expect for critical care during transport. • If the patient's condition suddenly worsens mid-flight and CPR is needed, they'd have to remove their seatbelts and perform CPR while the plane is in the air, which seems unsafe for both the patient and the medical staff. My brother refused because he genuinely believes they're not properly trained for this situation. However, the hospital told them they are required t
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I’m a nursing student and I work as a nurse extern, so I’m basically a tech. I thought blood would be the thing that grosses me out, but unfortunately it’s definitely poop. I’ve worked with one nurse who masks up every time and brings out the biohazard bags.. which personally I would also prefer since I can breathe through my mouth in a mask without it being obvious. But no one else on the unit seems to go to those lengths. Any and all advice or tips on how you desensitized yourself or learned to deal with it are appreciated. It’s gotten slightly easier already but not by much Thank you all for the comments!! It makes me feel better to hear it usually gets better with time, and I will try out these other tips too submitted by /u/LengthinessLate6065 [link] [comments]
Hey friends, Looking for ways you guys deal with the pre-shift anxiety, and all the heavy feelings that come along with the job. Work has been exceptionally hard lately, lots of death, critically ill, codes. I am laying here, in tears about having to work in the morning. I live very rural, there’s only one hospital, with one unit that does it all. ED, Medsurg, Labour/Delivery. We get notifications for callouts and I just got one looking for floaters for tomorrow- so you know it’s going to be a day. Any tips or advice? A new job is not possible. submitted by /u/Punky0597 [link] [comments]
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Found this in my camera roll from 2024. Today, a colleague and I were reflecting on the idea that it’s usually the bad patients whose names you remember and rarely the good. We said we needed a picture board of all the 1 month+ patients on the unit to remember the stories. submitted by /u/TheLastMtnDew [link] [comments]
I recently took care of a sweet little boy on our peds hospice service who passed a few days after I saw him. I was a float nurse so I only saw them once, and I have since quit working for that hospice agency. The family lives less than a mile down the street from me and I pass their house daily. I wanted to drop off flowers and a card for the family. The mom and I bonded over all of our kids being the same ages and genders. Our oldest kids will be in school together next year, so I will see them again regardless. Is this crossing the line? Further, do you think the family will appreciate a gesture? I don't want to trigger them, as I still have my little one who is the same age as theirs who passed away. Thanks, nursing community. submitted by /u/Dear_Excitement_5109 [link] [comments]
Homehealth peds with a client who has 3 siblings and they all have nurses. Somehow I feel like I’ve ended up the entertainer/babysitter to all these children. I’m also feeling judgement from the other nurses because my client sleeps in late (even when I attempt to wake him) hates taking his pills, can be a bit difficult. He has good days and bad days. His Friday nurse feels the need to go in our securechat and gloat to our clinical manager about every little thing. “I made sure he drank today!!!” “He was up early for me today!” Our chat is meant to relay changes/med updates/appointments. He has great days for me but I don’t feel a need to comment constantly in the chat about it for brownie points. Mean while,Friday nurses Monday client (his sister) is hanging on me all day because Friday nurse sits on her phone the whole time. Just a bit done with all the BS. A certain nurse went over my head to tell our office my client didn’t look well and appeared drugged up, when it was because he
My amazing wife of 34 years went back to school to get her RN in her early 50's after getting tired of being a MA Office Supervisor because she is super compassionate, smart, extremely detailed and absolutely loves helping sick patients. She does fantastic at dealing with the grumpiest of patience and loves the challenge of softening them up and "winning them over". She worked SO hard in school and clinicials...only people here would understand..and got straight A's...not easy at her age. She finished school close to a year and a half ago. And now, being extremely patient, compassionate and paying very close attention to important details that her colleagues often ignore...she finds herself in the same dark valley as many of you here ;( Working extremely long hours, charting and reviewing patient info all weekend, etc. She's currently salary 1st shift home health care....her 2nd position in the past year-ish after doing med surge for a while right after graduating (she did her externsh
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A recent post asking if people give meds at 7 keeps running in my head? Why the actual would that not be move to an hour earlier or later? Depending on the facility normal times? Maybe because I’ve been doing this for 30 years and don’t care about the BS but this is the type of crap that makes nursing unhealthy. submitted by /u/maplesyrupchin [link] [comments]
But now I’ve been there long enough they’ve decided I can float. Which, floating for the whole 12 hour shift wouldn’t bother me so much. But they rarely do that. No, my job loves to do this thing where you float to another unit for the first 4 hours of your shift and then come back to your unit for the last 8 hours. It’s like double the charting/so much extra work. Fml. submitted by /u/Minimum-Possible-415 [link] [comments]
Do nursing care plans actually have any legal purpose and/or effect on patient outcomes? I’m talking about these pre-built templates and checkboxes that are required to document in the EMR (e.g. impaired skin integrity). They seem like a waste of time and do nothing but add clutter to the patient’s chart. Has anyone ever had or heard of a case where a nurse care plan was brought up in court? Does anyone know of any EBP or studies that show that they do anything at all? submitted by /u/BadNewsBenz [link] [comments]
In icu with dad on a ventilator. All I can think is how smart the nurses here are. Not just about the meds, but about keeping us sane. Communicating with him when he can’t talk, managing a bazillion cords and machines, stalling lunch breaks to make sure he’s comfortable. I appreciate the quick jokes and check ins for the caregivers, I’m not a patient but your checking on me too. Can’t imagine working in this type of environment every day. Really appreciate those of y’all that care. This is such a difficult time but your work is really easing it. I hope your pillow is your preferred temperature and you get a raise. Gonna see if there’s a review system I can use for the nurses here. submitted by /u/Pale_Barnacle_2210 [link] [comments]
I've heard that in the OR/Endos, etc where nurses can be called in late at night, get the job done, then back to work to their normal shift in the morning. Is it me or that sounds....insane ,unsafe, and unhealthy? You have a sleep deprived nurse going to work, go home, then back to work again. In higher pay area like the Bay where they get paid a couple hundreds an hour, there might be some financial incentives. I can't fathom doing it for $30/hr in many hospitals in the South, because even when you double it, it's only $60/hr. submitted by /u/yukinara [link] [comments]
I’m a student. Why does my reading call patients ‘clients’ instead of patients? I find this annoying. submitted by /u/Obvious_Relative5877 [link] [comments]
Without too much info. Very elderly and the plan is to trach/peg. The family is woefully misinformed about everything. Think they will be able to eat while on the ventilator after trach. They get in the face of the patient and agitate them on the vent. The patient is hard to sedate to begin with. The family freaks out because the patient coughs on the vent and gags. Of course they will there is an irritating tube down their throat and you’re agitating them. I try to educate gently that the patient needs rest. Tell them: No, you can’t stay overnight in the room and they get mad. I let them stay wayyy after hours because I’m a pushover. For some reason the situation is really. I mean really bothering me. I’m mad that they agitate the patient. I’m mad the doctors don’t explain things. I’m mad we’re doing this to a very elderly, frail person when the nearest places to take trachs are in different states/hours away. Ugh. Help me. Normally I’m very detached from work and these situations. Bu
I made my first med error today as a new grad. I’ve been doing so good and I was feeling so confident. I gave the wrong scheduled med. The patient was fine and there was no effect from the medication error. I immediately owned up to it and everyone was so nice. The patient and their family were so sweet to me too, which made me cry because I just felt so bad. I’m trying to get over it but I feel so terrible. I started to cry and then was embarrassed I cried at work. Everyone was so nice and told me it happens to everyone but I can’t help but feel like everyone thinks I’m an idiot or that I can’t be trusted. It was truly an honest mistake and I reported it instantly. I’m afraid I’ll be fired or something. I never made a single mistake in school so I’m having a hard time. I am usually the most careful person, I can’t believe I did it. submitted by /u/Wild-Masterpiece3847 [link] [comments]
Trump aid Natalie Harp has recently come under public scrutiny / heightened media attention for various reasons. One thing that keeps standing out to me is that she claims an accidental infusion of sterile water by a nurse left her homebound and in a wheelchair. I know that getting pure sterile water without any electrolyte or medication added would be quite bad for you, but my question is do y’all‘s hospitals just have bags of water around??? I have never seen a liter sized infusion bag of sterile water on my floor ever. We have sterile water in bottles that obviously cannot be hooked up to an IV line and we have sterile water premixed with things like magnesium and we have tiny 10cc vials of sterile water for reconstituting things like diuril. I guess I’m just questioning how it was even possible that she could’ve gotten a large amount of sterile water infused accidentally / is that a risk that you, my fellow nurses, come across on the regular? submitted by /u/Flimsy_Course_9923 [lin
I literally just graduated this year, and passed the NCLEX in June. Started my job in July for a LTC / rehab facility, (which was not what I wanted). Also I have never worked for a company this large before. I’ve been a CNA for years in LTC and was excited about going back to school for my LPN. I was very excited about becoming the nurse for my residents and being able to provide them quality patient centered care. Then the further I progressed through school, and learned all about nursing, and clinical skills. And had my clinical rotations. I fell in love with medically complex patients in an acute care setting. anyways, ive always had some anxiety, and can be a hard critic of myself. but throughout school i was managing it well! I quit my vape, I was eating healthy, yoga, everything with moderation right. Then, I just felt such a high high passing nursing school, and my NCLEX. I felt like I learned the material well, never got under 80% on an exam. Then stepping on the floor for my f
I just accidentally forwarded an email of my nurse in charge report, which was actually just 7 blown up faces of all BTS members, to all the supervisors, director, administrator and NP in the building. Somehow the image I saved to send to myself was saved as my NIC report. This feels worse than a med error😭 submitted by /u/lmk0714 [link] [comments]
Nightmare group of patients. Then I get floated to another unit after 4 hours with an even heavier group. submitted by /u/Minimum-Possible-415 [link] [comments]
through food speaks with nurse Birgit Umaigba about burnout, staffing shortages, racism, wages, and the conditions pushing Canada’s health-care system to its limits. submitted by /u/Critical-Base5744 [link] [comments]
I work in LTAC and am a new nurse (4 months). I have a patient who is a nurse, ended up in our facility after a MVA and is on trach, feeding tube and has wound vacs and more wounds. She seems to have given up on herself! She pulled her PEG the other day and keeps pulling her mask or AIRVO from her trach. Whenever I go in and talk to her and try to talk to her, she starts crying but doesn’t respond to anything else we ask/tell her. I know she’s suffering and she KNOWS what’s next and just wants to end her suffering! How do you guys cope with situations like these? I keep thinking about her and am not able to sleep or do anything else when not working! I guess I am asking for any advice in how to manage these kind of situations. submitted by /u/karamtokaand [link] [comments]
I really hate how chaotic it feels to sit there and chart.. I Came to the nurse’s station for a pen and a snacky . Left with 4 rumors, 2 secrets, and somebody’s entire relationship history. HIPAA says we can’t gossip about patients, so naturally we gossip about each other. nursing stations really be a break room, courtroom, and TMZ newsroom all at once. Forever wishing I can chart from the bathroom >.< submitted by /u/matchaamaamii [link] [comments]
I got off my 8-week orientation, and today was my first day. Throughout my orientation, I have felt stressed. Some good days and some realllllly stressful, busy days. My unit ratio is 1:6, and we take post-surgery patients (mainly bariatric surgeries), as well as discharges throughout the day. It can get incredibly hectic, and some days I just feel like all I did was pass meds and that I didn’t get to really review the chart, look at histories, or review orders aside from monitoring lab work and vitals prior to meds. On top of that, I have anxiety about making mistakes. I’m anxious when talking to doctors and terrified that I will write a verbal order down incorrectly, even after reading it back. I’ve had a lot of days where I can’t take a break. I’ve had a lot of days where I’m staying 2+ hours late to catch up on charting. Overall, I’m just very stressed. I feel like I wasn’t prepared for this in nursing school. I was determined to work bedside, and now that I’m doing it, I can see j
I work nights, and I generally try to give any 0700 meds so that the day shift nurse doesn’t have to worry about them when they get on shift. However, it never seems to happen the other way around for me. Sometimes, the day shift nurse will even have been in the room around 1830-1850 to give pain meds or other PRNs and for some reason didn’t give the 1900 meds. Is this common elsewhere? I used to work days and I would do my best to give 1900 meds. I know days can be more hectic so I understand them not being given sometimes but for them to essentially never be given is odd to me. So I’m genuinely curious, am I being weird by giving 0700 meds on the night shift? Or is it weird that the day shift nurses on my unit are not giving 1900 meds? submitted by /u/pdggin99 [link] [comments]
I am 4 months into a new inpatient med-surg job. We almost never have techs to help with a ratio of 6:1. No phlebotomy or IV help. I can't properly take care of patients and I am feeling moral distress. Patients get upset and think the staff are lazy and have no idea what pressure we are under. I just read that our CEO made a salary of $33.2 million in a year at our "non-profit" hospital system, yet they can't be bothered to properly staff our unit (this is the Southeast- no hope for unionizing.) I am livid. I keep calling out because I am depressed and having suicidal ideation. I know I just need to quit but I'm not sure how. Should I bother giving notice? I'm worried about the employment gap if I leave the job off my resume but feel like only working somewhere for 4 months looks bad too. I also don't know what to say about it in job interviews. Any advice is appreciated. submitted by /u/SalamanderOk9624 [link] [comments]
I’m not even a nurse I just popped into this sub for curiosity. As a type 1 diabetic of 17 years I really appreciate what nurses have done for me. I hate to see how the industry mistreats many of you guys. I believe RN’s should make $100k entry level just considering all you have to put up with. submitted by /u/Fair_Comfortable5323 [link] [comments]
I’m considering a management position thats opening on my unit as its always been something I could see myself doing. I am absolutely burning out on bedside. I primarily do charge and if I could just do charge I would, but I have to do a mix. When I’m bedside I literally dread those shifts. I’m just returning from maternity leave, I have a 6 month old & 4 year old. I was talking to some coworkers and a few of them essentially said I’m nuts. They said I would have to take a lot of work home with me. Im currently a noc nurse, and love noc shift. My unit wants a noc supervisor but has never had one, literally ever, we just expanded our unit last year to be big enough to need one. They want someone to do 4 10’s. I’m planning on proposing a swing shift of 4pm-2 am Sun-Wed. The coworkers also said this sounded crazy, here I was thinking it sounded pretty good? LOL. I could come home nap, help my husband with morning routine (or just sleep) and then nap again. Get baby at noon from the sitter
I picked up an ER shift last night. I've got an 86M with new AMS. Virtually no medical history and vitals are solid except for a mild fever and slightly elevated HR. I suspect a UTI, so I'm asking questions in this direction. The spouse is present, doing most of the talking. At one point she points casually to his groin, leans in toward me, and half whispers, "I knew something was off down there, his semen started tasting funny today." Her face is dead serious. I nod, then say, "I'll make a note of that. Can you excuse me for one minute?" I pull the curtain and step out and slide the door closed. We have a soundproof family/consult room at one end of the unit and I head toward it, loudly stating, "Anyone that can leave what you're doing for a few minutes, follow me now!" One doctor, three RNs, and two techs follow me into the room. It is several minutes before we are able to pick ourselves up off the floor. And this is why I pick up ER shifts. P.S. Flaired this as "Art" because that fa
i’m a nurse, i work in the ICU. i was giving meds to this patient, being nice and professional. this patient has history of aggression tendencies so he’s in a 5 point restraint. as i was giving his meds he started to curse at me multiple times, i didn’t pay any attention to him at first as they’re just words so they don’t really bother me, told him not do so as i was helping him. then i went up to his side on head of the bed while fixing his iv lines, he spit on me and it landed on my arm while cursing at me. my brain blacked out in anger and i smothered his spit on my arm to his face. he was on restraints and still got aggressive then continued to ask me to wipe his spit off his face while cursing at me, i crumpled up his blanket and threw it on his face and told him to do it himself then cursed at him back. i sent a referral to the doctor then telling them what happened and asked to sedate him, they did. i know i should’ve maintained a professional demeanor but fuck i can handle all