RN Stories

New grads- call the board of nursing and request a copy of your state’s nurse practice act. That way you will know what is in your scope of practice. Your

when I was orienting for my first nursing job, I asked my preceptor what she thought of malpractice insurance because she had been a nurse for almost 40 years. She

 Physicians “protect” each other. Nurses are brutal, but MDs will let an unsafe physician keep practicing because it’s “one of their own”.

I was given 3 patients in the CCU, one was an attempted suicide, which needed a sitter 1 on 1. Of course, no sitter was available. I was unable to

A patient made me cry this week and the administrator called me into her office and told me to stop crying and have a thicker skin.

my older nurse coworker that is in her 60’s was beat up by a guy that was in his right mind that she was trying to to help keep from

I work in residential nursing homes and you are subjected at times to physically abusive residents. Nothing is ever done to stop their behavior UNTIL that behavior is experienced by

I once had a patient in for pancreatitis, and his wife stayed for the whole stay. I don’t think she ever left the room or even knew there was a

When I was a grad many years ago, an elderly partially blind man took exception to me asking g questions and threw me into a set of windows… we had

Had a patient try to force himself on me. Literally I was setting up a pump and he very quickly pulled his IV out, jumped up and slammed the door

Once found a 50 cc syringe containing mashed potatoes in an NPO pts room.

Bed bugs are bad but there was this lady at my nursing home that had a colony of Roaches living in her fat. You would lift her tummy to clean

A nurse I once worked with was a nail biter. We went in to help her patient get admitted. We did a skin check, she pulled off his socks without

I knew a nurse in the 90’s, and everyone said they NEVER saw her use gloves. She had been nursing already like 30 years. It didn’t matter. Whether it was

I worked at a facility that was all dementia patients. One resident would ask have you seen my wife? I’d always tell him the wife and daughter went to the

I remember doing resuscitation for one patient successfully and afterwards she said she was hovering above us watching our efforts. She could tell me everything we said!!

Once I had a patient give me the tooth he pulled out of his mouth all by himself. He was so proud when he handed it to me. Teeth and

I’ll never forget I was holding a clotted dialyzer and lines, my PPE was covered in blood, and a patient asked me for a coffee with “two creams and one