tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37811152.post2643147520392443153..comments2024-03-20T10:44:38.106-05:00Comments on madness: tales of an emergency room nurse: here's a reality checkUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37811152.post-39175682724134171572013-04-12T09:40:33.444-05:002013-04-12T09:40:33.444-05:00I guess I've been a bad nurse too, for writing...I guess I've been a bad nurse too, for writing about the underside of nursing for the past 20 years. My local AACN Chapter told me I was bad, because I seemed to have such a negative view of hospital life and all the crazy people we deal with. We Nurse bloggers, are the journalists of truth!Fibril_latehttp://undersideofnursing.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37811152.post-74321681230157721032013-03-20T13:21:56.732-05:002013-03-20T13:21:56.732-05:00We keep getting more and more ridiculous-er stuff ...We keep getting more and more ridiculous-er stuff to do. Like I just heard that now we get to chart and count the carbs a patient eats. Because the kitchen can't bother to serve a limited amount of carbs to our diabetic patients, we get to be a dietician too. Besides of counting pees and poops and breaths and crap, now I have to count carbs. krystinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16559841010604947073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37811152.post-35677333749999178422013-03-20T12:01:41.703-05:002013-03-20T12:01:41.703-05:00I get bagged on all the time about my blog and twe...I get bagged on all the time about my blog and tweets. "You need to be a good nurse online too," someone said. What does that even mean? I should lie? I resent too the implication that bloggers who discuss the less savory aspects of nursing are bringing down the profession somehow. Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot that sun should shine out of my ass all the time. The public does not know how impossible it is for that to happen. And if you try to tell them, they go "ewwww." And don't get me started with other nurses who tell me what a bad nurse I am just from reading my blog. Seriously? Now that right there is totally bringing down the profession, IMHO. NNRhttp://notratched.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37811152.post-32695306541520311912013-03-20T03:44:21.083-05:002013-03-20T03:44:21.083-05:00Indeed. Not to mention all the self-hate that com...Indeed. Not to mention all the self-hate that comes with the lie that all the manipulation and aggression can just be fixed if you just communicate therapeutically enough! I just wish someone had even once mentioned that, oh, BTW, there is a whole culture of lying assholes out there who will try to abuse and take advantage of you, so I wouldn't have had the guilt associated with making that realization on my own. Except the people who teach are often the ones that couldn't deal with the profession in the first place, so....hoodnursehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15467790713937519943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37811152.post-23407251544753979922013-03-20T03:10:12.821-05:002013-03-20T03:10:12.821-05:00And let's be sure and keep those Press Ganey s...And let's be sure and keep those Press Ganey scores up!<br /><br />We wouldn't want the winos and crackheads to give us low ratings, and take their business elsewhere, because then we might be stuck caring for patients with actual emergencies, and where's the challenge in that?<br /><br />You sing those blues loud and proud, and tell the Pollyannas to come walk a shift in your shoes before they pop off about giving the profession a bad rep.<br /><br />Fairytales are for kids. Nursing is for grown-ups. And on the best day, it's bone-wearyingly soul-crushingly hard, or you're probably not doing it right.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37811152.post-38564616966300147002013-03-19T18:54:12.196-05:002013-03-19T18:54:12.196-05:00Do everything you do and then add on an expectatio...Do everything you do and then add on an expectation of stocking every one of your rooms, taking out all your rooms' trash and dirty linen, cleaning your rooms' floors AND calling every single discharged patient that comes through your doors to see how their doing (including 18 year olds with back strain, homeless people with crack addictions, people with viral sore throats, etc.) If you're into that...we're hiring! Oh somewhere in there, have the highest acuity patient population in the area too.Nurse Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06408755992926959084noreply@blogger.com