You Can't Fix Stupid

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HIPAA DISCLAIMER

Writings in this space are purely fictional and have no resemblance to real patients or their families.There is no hospital such as the one talked about, it's a combination off all the hospitals I've worked in. The scenarios described are all made up from TV shows like House and Dr. Gee. Most of the scenarios described are are from dreams that I had the night before and then embellished upon. If you think that you know me, you probably don't because I'm not a real nurse, I only play one in the schizophrenic delusions that I'm being medicated for. I don't work in a hospital and never have, regardless of what else it says on this blog full of bald-faced lies.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Just a small sampling of my day:

Stupid #1: Per wife: He's had n/v for an hour. It won't stop. He always gets an IV and medicines for this. He has chronic UTI's since childhoold d/t some congenital thing.
Rachedy: That emesis looks like pure water, has he been drinking water?
Stupid #1: Yes, he has, his throat is dry!! He needs to be admitted, we don't have insurance and no money to buy antibiotics!
Rachedy: He's being discharged, there is no indication to be admitted.
Stupid #1: WHAT? We always get admitted. We're leaving this dump and going to the big house downtown where they always admit him and give him medications for his pain and nausea.
Rachedy: Bub-bye.

Stupid #2: I have mucus in my throat and I can't stop coughing, I'm wheezing. I had a UTI last month and an ear infection. When I cough I have chest pain.
Rachedy: I see, do you have asthma? Right now your lungs are clear.
Stupid #2: Yes! I'm sick, I don't want to be blown off, I know how this works, I'm a nursing student at the technical school.
Rachedy: Okay, but all your tests are negative. Your urine is clean. Your ears are clean, they are discharging you.
Stupid #2: I want to talk to the manager!
Rachedy: Okay, but I have to put you in the hall, I'm sorry. The manager will be with you shortly (when they get back from a meeting and lunch and afternoon break and then another meeting followed by the ice cream social that none of us have time to attend.

Watching the look on her face while pushing her into the hall while the code is rolling into her room: Priceless.