ER Nurse Insanity: The Texas Years

One day I woke up and realized I'm not a baby nurse anymore. I'm not even a young nurse. I'm a real adult who has now been doing this for years, and I'm definitely expected to know what I'm doing at all times. And that's fucking terrifying.

Friday, July 1, 2022

July 1

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A staff bathroom in the ER - placed head-scratchingly close to the ambulance queue spot in the hall and also the charge desk - broke the oth...
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Thursday, April 7, 2022

April 7

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I promised y'all a followup post to the spicy email saga, so here we are. And yet the fall out was much, much different than I expected....
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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

March 22

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One of the reasons I'll never be in administration is that I am completely incapable of keeping the spiciness at bay enough to be a Real...
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Thursday, March 10, 2022

March 10

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It's no secret that one of the worst parts of the ER is dealing with the awful, terrible people that come in. Not the "I'm havi...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

TWOSDAY! 2/22/22

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We had a terrible, horrible trauma the other day - think Kill Bill style knife injuries and attempted murder. The staff working was incredib...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

January 27, 2022

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I think six months is the longest I've ever gone without posting since this blog was started. It's been a rough, tough two years of ...
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Sunday, July 25, 2021

July 25

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This past 4th of July holiday was awful. Not to celebrate, mind you, but if you were sadly at work like I was then it was just the worst. We...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

July 21

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YOU GUYS. My plant life and ER life collided in the very best way this week. A patient came in, and she recognized a few of us that took car...
Saturday, June 26, 2021

June 26

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We recently had a very drunk middle aged dude come in for an MVC, because of course he was shithoused, high, and driving extra fast. As peop...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

June 23

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Hello! I've been away from blogging these past couple of months because it seems like there's no time! I've been wildly busy wit...
Thursday, May 13, 2021

May 13

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I've had more foot-in-mouth moments over my decade+ of nursing than I can count. Somehow for all my momentary embarrassment I've nev...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

April 21

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Good lord y'all, springtime got away from me there. It's been a busy few weeks since the last post.  Work is...work. We're prett...
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Thursday, March 18, 2021

March 18

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 Y'all, I did a charge dayshift on Tuesday. DAYSHIFT. I'm honestly trying to remember the last time I worked a real, honest to god d...
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Thursday, March 11, 2021

March 11

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Can you believe it? One whole year since the WHO declared COVID a pandemic. One entire year. Shit's wild. Things are getting better here...
Sunday, February 21, 2021

FeBRRRRRuary 21

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Remember that time one post ago when I was like "this is the best snow day ever!" and we had a cozy fire and cheese board and I sn...
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