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Action shots!

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Aella.Hena

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Namai.

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How a real President responds

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There’s two types of nurses ...

over the course of 12 hours, I can be both

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Should have said...

"My job is to protect the patient, not your ego."

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I'd very much like to punch a feminist.

I’d never, ever hurt a lady but I’d be happy to punch a feminist. It’d bring me great joy.

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Desperately exhausted but can't sleep because I had coffee during the AM staff meeting so I could stay awake for the drive home.

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When in trouble...

You've been kidnapped but the main character of the last TV show you watched is coming to rescue you.

Who’s rescuing you?

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Realizing immediately after paging the doctor that you actually don't need them

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Nursing is tough, for even the toughest of nurses. You can love what you do, but still question, “what’s it all for?” You may be grateful for employment, and thankful for great coworkers, but still find yourself searching for where you truly belong. You may adore patient care, or administration, but perhaps frustrated with the limits of your job. You may have had great plans for your career, but find yourself just getting through the days, like some sort of marathon. You may enjoy precepting new nurses, but perhaps wishing you had more to offer, and ponder if they’re truly getting the best experience when sometimes you feel as lost as they do. It may be you wish you had a chance to begin all over again, with the wide eyed wonder of it all. Nursing is tough, maybe not only for the skills, but for the daily endurance and desire to be, and do more. At the very heart of nursing is a will and tenacity to carry on. On the darkest days you may feel you’ve lost your way, an uncertainty about what to do next. Perhaps the secret isn’t in what rests behind us, or what may lay ahead; but in the daily curiosity and fortitude of mind - some days it just doesn’t feel enough, and you strive….for more. Nursing may be tough, but on the darkest days we may encounter a solitary patient that reminds us what it’s all for. These are the people, and moments we need to carry on.

Nurse X (via dancingnurse-ed)

This hits hard.

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Needed this one today.

No.

Talk about setting an impossible standard. Talk about empty words that set new nurses up for disappointment.

New nurses, hear me.

YOU WILL have days when your compassion runs dry and you take care of your patient simply because it’s your job, and you have to, not because you are some kind of angel.

YOU WILL pull another nurse into the med room to chew out the family member who is driving you insane.

YOU WILL cause your patient pain. With just about everything you go into the room to do. Heparin shots, enemas, dressing changes, repositioning patients in pain, making them get out of bed after surgery when all they want to do is rest. You will do these things because it is for their good, and because recovery is painful and they need someone to lead them through it.

And you will have a day when you drive home from the hospital and cry and come to the conclusion that nursing was a huge mistake, you can’t do it, it’s too hard.

If we don’t tell you to expect it, you may not realize that you are incorrect and that you’re simply coming to grips with the reality of a profession that can push you to your limits in every way.

We have a high calling as nurses, but don’t romanticize it too much in your mind. We’re just people.

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"Why is there silverware in the pancake drawer??"

Scrubs {Sentence Starters}

“Ahh. Uncomfortable silences and alcohol. Just like thanksgiving at home.”

“You have no chance of being normal.”

“Don’t ever be afraid to come to me with stuff like that.”

“A person doesn’t have to be perfect to be exactly what you need.”

“It’s the kid inside of us that keeps us all from going crazy.”

“I don’t dislike you, I nothing you.”

“Nothing’s worse than a ninja - they’re masters of every style of combat.”

“Have you been in the supply closet, crying?”

“It sounds like you’re asking me out on a man date.”

“There’s a good chance I’m gonna kill someone.”

“The only way you could be more useless right now is if you actually were the wall.”

“Gosh, now I’m too proud of you to be mad at you.”

“Relationships don’t work they way they do on television and in the movies.”

“Sometimes it feels like you’re holding back.”

“All you do is bitch about your relationships all day long!”

“We’re only four seconds in and I’m already regretting my decision.”

“I can’t believe you lost our bottle opener.”

“I think we both know there’s a little more to it than that.”

“Does this lipstick make me look like a clown?”

“Why don’t I ever listen to me?”

“Well isn’t that just the pickle on the giant crap sandwich that is my day.”

“Come on, what’s the worst that could happen?”

“I can’t help but notice you love telling jokes.”

“Do you want to be alone?”

“You’re telling me that you actually made a decision that had a positive impact on your life?”

“Can you get that for me? I can’t reach it.”

“Don’t look in her eyes, she might steal your soul.”

“I refuse to be judged by a grown man wearing a hockey jersey.”

“That was my mistake. I keep forgetting that you’re a horrible, horrible person.”

“Why are you so afraid of loving me?”

“Do you want to cry a little?”

“Why do you have to jump out and scare me all the time?”

“What do I know about good relationships?”

“Newsflash! You can’t drink and then come to work!”

“Why is there a pancake in the silverware drawer?“ 

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I've never related to a post this hard before.

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Literally laughing hysterically in my car after my 13 hour noc shift.

You win the crappy lung game

I have a patient tonight with COPD, hx of lung CA, RLL pneumonia, bilateral PE, and probable TB.