From John…
The worst experience I ever had was before I was a nurse. I was working the ambulances and sometimes we had to go check on the elderly.
We were dispatched to a scene to check on this elderly man who had been acting strangely. When we arrived the police were already there and told us to be careful as it was nasty in the house. How bad could it be though? SO I opted to not wear any PPE’s.
So we enter this very dark house and the stench was awful. We were sourounded by decades old newspapers, rotting cat food, and yes… you guessed it at cats. There were at least a hundred of the furry little guys runnng around. It looked like they had been using the house as a huge cat box. The place was covered in cat shit and urine.. it was awful!
So my partner and I get o the man and try to sitpic him to the gurney and exit the house. But as I went to get the man I slipped.. landing head first in cat shit and urine. I instantly puked and had to go outside. My poor partner had to get one of the cops to help him carry the old guy as I was busy barfing.
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Jill writes…
There was a very disturbed lady in our unit for about a year that used to do the most bizzare things. She sort of shuffled around and talked to herself incoherrently most of the time. When her family came to visit she would start screaming obscenities at the younger ones. Needless to say after a few visits they didn’t bring the grandkids anymore.
The worst was she had this need to horde stuff. She would try and hide things all over the place.. in her pillow case, her hair, her clothes. This one time I had to shower her thats when I noticed something odd. From between her legs there was a napkin sticking out of her vag! Next thing you know I am pulling out pens, more napkins, and a toothbrush. I get the charge nusrse because this is getting ridiculous and she’s starting to fight me.
Five nurses have to be called to take care of the matter ( four pinning the fifth performing the mining operation ). The worst was what I can only guess was once a the baloney sandwich… yech.
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A friend of mine on a forum mentioned that she thought someone needed to have a deep faith in God to be a good nurse. Her argument was that with out a strong spiritual foundation someone won’t be able to be able to meet their patients spiritual needs. Is that even a nurses job?
I mean if you could provide that it wouldn’t hurt things but there are specialists in the field. Beyond that what if your religion or lack there of makes the patient find you repugnant? Certainly an attempt to meet their spiritual needs could degrade the patients car in that case.
I dunno, as an atheist, I find the whole idea curious…
What do you think?
edit:
people I’d like to tag with this question….
Small Town RN, May, Geena, Beth, REBIRTH, Jaxia, Nurse K, Keith, kim
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Are you thinking about nursing? You should read a few nursing blogs to get an idea of what nursing is all about. While LPN Career.com is a great resource be sure to check some reports from nurses in the feild to. Here are some of my recommendations.
Crass-Pollination: An ER blog
Nurse K is just funny… I mean check thi sout from the other day.
Female patient with pain: Uh! Uh! Oh my God! Uh! Uh! God! Uh! Uh hhhhh Ohhhhh Uh!!!
Nurse: [Exiting room] God, it sounds like a bad porno in room 5, doesn’t it?
How could you not want to read a blog like that?
Digital Doorway
Keith writes in depth stuff as well as touching which is why I like it so much. He provides a good insight into nursing and I recommend it for any nursing student.
Emergiblog
Kims been a nurse for 30 years now and writes often, which is refreshing for nursing blogs. Personally like the recent post about the bs paper chase nurses have to do.
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Jon writes….
I was working at a nursing home and we had an elderly women with diarrhea really bad. One morning I went in to dress her and found she was completely covered in shit. I am not sure ow she managed to do it but somehow the porr gal had crapped her bed at night and managed to move the poo around till it was up to her neck. The smell alone made me want to vomit… then I saw the carrots! I had to leave the room to compose myself.
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