#truestory For Nurses... Nursing Humor Random This is (Also) Triage December 14, 2014March 20, 2016 Adventures of a Labor Nurse 5457 Views 5 Comments core, delivery, labor, nurse, nursing, patient This is how I feel when all my favorite people are at work. This is how I feel when I walk onto the unit, and night shift has the lights all dimmed. This is how I feel when I realize that two people called in sick, and we’re going to be very short-staffed. This is how I feel knowing we can’t ask any other unit in the hospital for help (because they don’t deliver babies and they are repulsed by the idea that blood comes out of a vagina). This is how I feel when I clock in, and find out triage is already full. But I’m not worried about it, because I’m working with my favorite charge nurse. This is how I feel prioritizing who I will see first. This is how I feel when I discharge the patient with round ligament pain and the patient who “bled two days ago when I wiped”. This is how I feel when there’s a revolving door, and I immediately get two more patients. One can’t sit on the chair and is doing this half-hop in the wheelchair. This is how I feel when she stands up and a baby’s head pops out when she stands up to get into the triage bed. This is how I feel catching her baby with my bare hands so it doesn’t hit the floor. This is how I feel when I look at the clock and realize it’s only 10am. And this is how I feel when I find out I missed breakfast. It is so weird that we’re busy in triage after any holiday, after a football game, or any other event where people are celebrating—and maybe in more ways than one 😉 It doesn’t matter where you work or what kind of patients you see, when one of us is busy, we’re ALL usually busy. Shout out to all my triage patients!! ❤ Until my next delivery ❤ Be a part of a delivery and share with friends:PrintTumblrFacebookTwitterLinkedInPinterestRedditLike this:Like Loading... Related
LenoreDecember 27, 2014 at 11:48 pmPermalink Perfect, especially this Christmas when the OB offices and clinics were closed on Friday. Everyone came to L&D. Can’t wait until the next week…. Reply
adventuresofalabornursePost authorDecember 27, 2014 at 11:54 pmPermalink Next week will be busy because doctors will make up for being off and people are trying to get tax breaks :/ Reply
Retired Super WomanDecember 28, 2014 at 4:26 pmPermalink Love the wheel chair half-hop! My motto? Don’t get in the elevator with her! (Why is L&D always on the 80th floor?) Reply
Jacob MearseJanuary 6, 2015 at 10:30 pmPermalink I’ve done L&D and ER, but as a nurse manager in the ED, I had all my nurses cross-trained to L&D, because not being able to help out an entire department is just silly. I actually lost a few nurses, who ended up falling in love with OB! (I should have warned them….) Reply
