Ah.
To visit a modern hospital for a minor procedure…
AND MEET YOUR DOOM!!! DOOM-DOOM-DOOM! Click link for story.
Well, not Doom, exactly, but it sure must smart. She needs to switch to Decaf.
Here’s more.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4638946.stm
HIIIIIIIIIII-yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!
:eek: OW OW OW! My fingers hurt just thinking about that. Holy keratin theft, Batman!
Although, I have to say, you can’t fault that nurse for her dedication to her work. Real nails-for-breakfast determination. 
Hey! This is the second “beat the nurse” thread I’ve seen today! If you don’t stop, I’ll have to get my surgical pliers… 
picunurse --can you find the castile soap and the enema bags? Meet me in room 4–and pull the call light outta the wall…
Heh. Heh. Heh.
I Like they way you think!
Where’s the other nurse knocking thread?
Nurses of the Board, unite!
You have nothing to lose, except your chains, & your patients’ toenails. 
Actually, it was one stereotyping us as porn stars, and not in a good way. I didn’t even respond to it. It was a bunch of harmless boys.
(turns head to look at the men) You* know* who you are!
I know who I am, but I still can’t find the thread.
You would think that that would die, no?
:rolleyes:
It must be the most pervasive stereotype ever. That and the damned cap–we haven’t worn caps for 30 years! (or white, either come to that).
Speaking of porn: nursing ruined porn for me waaaaay back. I’ve seen too many naked bodies to be turned on by them.
(ok-I get the TMI award for the day)
I’ve seen this movie before.
Nurses of the Board, untie! (Sorry if this was already suggested)
I’m currently working in dialysis, where we place 15 gauge needles into arms and legs. We are not allowed to use the word “stab”, however that’s pretty much what it amounts to. Every now and then it occurs to me how savage my job is. I, however, have never removed any fingernails from dozing patients. That’s pretty brutal stuff, and not listed in any nursing school curriculum that I know of.
I have no idea where it came from, either. Do you really think you’re going to get me into that gurney with you? I know why they brought you in through the ER. Pass.
I can see the frustration in having to bathe, change and move patients in order to make their beds (with them in them), but…rip off their nails??? Um. Somebody needs a mental health day.
Oh, hiya, Carmen, how’s it going?
As awful as it sounds, I just can’t register surprise at this. I look at both nursing and teaching high school, and for the life of me, I can’t imagine how someone could subject themselves to either for 30+ years without going totally batshit insane. As tough an occupation as I’ve ever seen.
Plus, Japan in general strikes me as a pretty stressful place in and of itself.
I’m really not knocking nurses. They are truly the infantry footsoldiers of the healthcare role, and they have my unwavering respect. But God, I’m not surprised to hear about one of them snapping every once in a while.
I don’t think anything has ever made me genuinely whimper until today.
15s?!? How to you get enough blood flow through those little things? I was head nurse in a unit a couple hundred years ago. The smallest needle I ever used was a 14, standard was 12. We had one mean, old, uncompliant guy, that we used 10s on when he needed a long fast run, the :wally (yeah, and I’m deslexic too. )
But I digress.
While there has been that occasional patient that stretches the fabric of compassion, the nails are waaaaaaaayover the top.
Now, there have been a few physicians whose nails might not have been safe if they’d happened to have fallen asleep within my sphere of influence… :eek: but, I retired before the urge became reality
As far as being a back-drop for porn… no, icky. When I was a student we were required to wear dresses. Doing CPR on a bed at neuro height, in a short dress was a sight to behold, but not one that turned ANYONE on!
And as far as the caps go, my class of 1970 was the first in our school that didn’t require caps. Good thing too, because I would have transfered to arch welding, before I’d wear that nut cup. (It’s #1999.267.37, scroll to the bottom of the page on the left) Ours had a red band instead of pink, and it was a bit smaller and taller. I think I wore it on hallow’een once.
eleanorigby - I was very surprised to see a nurse in a white nurse’s dress last year when my mother was hospitalized for a stroke. I asked her about it, but it seems she was subbing from another area and liked the whites instead of scrubs. Very strange. As for the caps, a co-worker’s daughter graduated from nursing school in Kentucky about ten years ago and was required to wear a cap for her graduation. Whites, too, I think.
StG
I agree, 14s should be the default needle and whoever can take larger should go to a 12. But doctor’s orders, ya know? And we have vascular surgeons who make crappy accesses, little tiny fistulas that resemble spaghetti and grafts that invariably fail. You would be appalled by the number of central catheter patients we have. And Life Sites, which are supposed to be the bomb but frequently suck so much that we can only get a blood flow of 250. I started in dialysis nursing back in 1987, and sometimes it seems like we are going backwards instead of forward.
Oh, I wore whites for my grad pic, too.
No cap–in 1984. Many nurses are still capped, though. :rolleyes:
15 gauge? I’m not familiar with that–we use 20 and 22G. Most of our pts are elderly with NO veins.
We see alot of permacaths etc–it’s almost standard to get either a PICC or a central line now in acute care (depending on your pt population).
See, this Japanese chick. I can see taking your frustrations out on equipment (the line of thinking being, if I break the bed scale, then I don’t have to do the weights) but IMO she is batshit insane.
There is more there than job stress.
And with 20 years, I am looking to get OUT.