who here walks the long way around the unit to get your supplies and go to the potty just to avoid that one patient or family member...?

Bard rectal tubes get an A++ from me. I work 2 hospitals now and this johnny doe went from of them last night, to me at my other one today...and crap...he was sick. projectile C Diff isn't a pretty sight. now that i think about it I'm sure I should throw away my scrubs...ok i'm in my boxers and scrubs are in the trash. anyway you know when you check your labs and norms are in black and the alerts and alarms are all in red...yea well, everything was red. In less than 30 minutes I had tubes in every lower orifice and 3 iv's. its pretty cool though that i had a foley catheter draining what looked like stool, and a bard rectal tube draining what looked like urine. yes he was a mess. but bard...simple yet sweet product. back in my day we pasted and stuck stickers to the butthole....what's more the Johnny doe didn't even mind the tube or know i was finished. A++

a frequenter pee'd himself and schooled me on the freemasons...still didn't let me know what they actually did. quick wikipedia still left me clueless as to their reason for existance...but check out your us dollar bill. i just found out the pyramid and the eye is a symbol from the freemasons who date as far back as 1797....holy poop!

i seem to be getting into my patient's personal lives...this guy feeling depressed about his younger baby mother drama. she left and found another bo. well, now this guy's in a bad spot. but i felt for him, nice kid. i spent time talking to him about his issues, and i seem to have lifted him up. a few prayers go his way because he really seemed like he had a good head, just got mixed into some issues and with the wrong crowd. when my co-workers are chit chatting it up, i actually enjoy sitting with one of my patients and talk it up. what makes them tick, learn, and give what advice i can for their individual situation.

i gave my phone number to a patient who confided in me and told me he lost his whole family to drugs, suicide, and divorce...holy crap. i couldn't imagine. but i felt bad. am i getting too close? This johnny doe needed some advice and an 'in'. i even went out to check on him...at his invitation...to his auto shop. he wanted to show me a car he was working on. since i have 7 years auto under my belt i connected well with him. i haven't heard from him in a couple weeks...time to ring and check him out i guess...