I drop an NGT into my patient that’s been constantly puking and hasn’t had a BM in 10 days, and immediately get 2L of foul, brown drainage...

NCLEX Pharmacology Medical Suffixes

yooooooooo

Jesus Christ this is good.

This shift too shall pass. - Saber

Wayfaring meeting elderly female patient for the first time: So tell me a little about yourself.

Patient: Well…. I guess I’m a healthy old geezer.

The logic behind “not documented, not done...”

other than that, it’s pretty timeless

when you’re in your twenties and start to realize how young the protagonists of the novels you read are: 

And at some point the protagonist goes,

And you just go,

#bonus points if you started out reading them when they were older than you and you grow up and surpass them and it’s just holy shit [x]

WHEN SOMEONE ASKS ME THE SCARIEST THINGS I’VE SEEN SO FAR ON MY SURGERY ROTATION

More like 4 if you’re going to be at the hospital in time.

This is too funny to not reblog.

To the people angry at the posts nurses, doctors & other healthcare workers on here make in which they bitch about their patients/make fun of them:

Today I was taking care of a very sick patient and her caring but annoying family. I bitched to a fellow nurse about all the extra requests they had and the families decisions about the medical care for their comatose mother. I made fun of the family with the doctor.

I also tried to fullfill every single - sometimes pointless - request by the family because I know it’s the only way they can feel in control. I answered every single question - often over and over again. I offered comfort and kind words for the distraught family. I told the family members that it was okay that they kept asking & demanding when they felt bad about it (because it is no matter how much it may annoy me).

The patient’s daughter thanked me for my care and told me that in the two years since her mother had become chronically ill I was one of the nicests and most patient nurses she had met.

That I make fun and/or complain about stuff doesn’t stop me from delivering excellent care. As a matter of fact it makes it possible. There will always be things that annoy/anger/frustrate us about patients and being able to share those feelings with my fellow health care workers means I don’t share them with the patient. So stop fucking complaining how mean we are when we post about that crazy patient from last night…

THIS

My patient’s WBC went from 7 to 50 in less than 12 hours...

Trying to wake up after my mid-night shift nap

so tireedddddddd

After being tripled with ICU patients & charge asks if I'm doing okay.

Wheeling my noncompliant frequent flyer out the door

When you think you have your shit together, but your admit rolls up at 0651

Walking into my patient’s room seeing therapy trying to get them up with their two art lines, IVs, Swan, Foley, multiple drains, and CRRT

As much as I appreciate the aggressive willingness to get my patient up and ambulating, they just got off of pressors an hour ago and I swear if you pull anything out so help me God you are dead meat. DEAD. MEAT.