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The Nurse Life

June 4, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

Welcome. 

how I felt after graduating nursing school and being flung into the real world
getting flung into the real world after nursing school
telling my non-nursing friends about nursing school
telling my non-nursing friends about nursing school
the first time I was left alone at the nurse's station
the first time I was left alone at the nurse’s station
when someone tries to give me report the second I walk onto the unit
when someone tries to give me report the second I walk onto the unit
when I see that I'm working with my favorite nurses + techs and I have a good assignment
when I see that I’m working with my favorite nurses + techs and I have a good assignment
when the patient can lift their hips so I can just switch out their incontinence pad by myself
when the patient can lift their hips so I can just switch out their incontinence pad all by myself
when the charge nurse asks who wants to take the next admission
when the charge nurse asks who wants to take the next admission
One has to pee.  One is demanding pain meds, now.  One is hypertensive.  One is deteriorating.  One just crapped everywhere.  A doctor is rounding. A family is calling.  A transporter is waiting.  And pharmacy is on the phone. when the doctor backs me up to a patient who refuses to listen to me when we’re elbow-deep in a code brown, run out of wipes, and I have to hold the patient up while someone runs to get more when I say goodbye at the end of the shift to my patient that loved me after I give report to the floor on my complicated, mean, and labor-intensive patient running interference for the docs whenever I can’t get the IV pump to just. stop. beeping! me after report

If you enjoyed this – please share with all of your nursey buds!  #thenurselife

Note:  I got all of these from my Tumblr site (nurseeyeroll.tumblr.com).  I don’t own any of the rights to any images nor do I take any credit for their creation.. I just added some nursey captions.

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