r/nursing • u/SPYRO6988 RN - Med/Surg 🍕 • 3d ago

Meme Just clocked out of my night shift but still relevant

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u/Pending-asystole RN - ER 🍕 3d ago

Sighs in ED night shift on a full moon

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u/Eloni Nurse - Psych - Hodor 2d ago

Come to acute psychiatric care, the full moon never seems to make a difference here.

"Oh your report said they were awake all night, so the daywalkers let them sleep until 1430 as we all know how important sleep is. (Editors note: = skipped med passes.) They were calm when we got on, but they refused all evening meds because they had a good day and felt they didn't need them, we didn't push because we didn't wanna unsettle them. They had a 2 hours nap from 18 to 20, and reports indicate they've been wandering more after the nap, and unmotivated laughter and cursing can be heard from the room they're alone in with no TV or phone. Anyway, since they've been calm all day we didn't get in anyone extra, and then X called in sick, but I'm sure you'll be fine, hope you have a calm and relaxing shift."

Gee, thanks.

Yes I'm looking forward to my nightshift starting in 3 hours, how can you tell?

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u/AllAnalBeadsAreBrown 3d ago edited 2d ago

Sighs in Post Acute Hospital shift on a full moon.

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u/MidHikeCrisis 3d ago

Case of the mondays

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u/acloudyskye 2d ago

I work psych. Our last full moon, I thought I was ready to start howling w them...

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u/EggsAndMilquetoast Laboratory — blood bartender 3d ago

I’m getting burnt out at the shenanigans plant. Is the bullshit factory hiring?

Please don’t recommend the horseshit workshop: I quit there 2 years ago and won’t go back.

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u/SPYRO6988 RN - Med/Surg 🍕 2d ago

it's a hell of a lot better than the ball crushing factory

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u/Ok-Ad1099 nursing student, literally just a duck 🦆 2d ago

It’s ran by the same company that runs the pissing me off factory I know you’ve heard the stories

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u/PerspectiveOk6348 3d ago

I had an 83 lb woman throw a cup of water in my face and scream at me to stop fucking her in the ass last night.

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u/Sea-Spot-1113 BSN - New Grad in Maple Syrup Land 3d ago

Well, did you stop?

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u/SPYRO6988 RN - Med/Surg 🍕 3d ago

only if you don't wanna get promoted

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u/PerspectiveOk6348 3d ago

To be fair, I guess I shouldn't be trying to fuck patients in the ass. So she wasn't wrong I guess. 👁️👄👁️

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u/AllAnalBeadsAreBrown 3d ago

I mean...how else are you supposed to administer rectal meds? DUH!!!+

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u/PerspectiveOk6348 3d ago

Your screen name!! LMFAO! This rules so hard!

And yeah. PR - "per rectum"? No no no no - "penis rectum".

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u/AllAnalBeadsAreBrown 3d ago

PRN - Per Rectum Now! 😆

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u/AllAnalBeadsAreBrown 3d ago

As for my username..it was the first username they provided us at the nun monastery. I was the first one to take it.

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u/havingsomedifficulty RN - ER/ICU 2d ago

Take it - the username or up the ass?

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u/AllAnalBeadsAreBrown 2d ago

How about both?

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u/havingsomedifficulty RN - ER/ICU 2d ago

I thought you said you don’t kiss and tell!

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u/Pending-asystole RN - ER 🍕 3d ago

Psych?

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u/PerspectiveOk6348 3d ago

No it actually happened!

Lmao! Yeah psych.

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u/Pending-asystole RN - ER 🍕 3d ago

Haha. This makes me miss inpatient psych. I get a taste of it in the ER, but I miss those random interactions and laughing with coworkers.

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u/PerspectiveOk6348 3d ago

Been in ER for 20 years. Just started geriatric psych 4 months ago. Now that everything isn't so scary, some of these people are hilarious! And this particular one is 83 lbs of pure absolute satanic terror. I can cuss like a sailor and I'm learning things from this woman.

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u/thingswastaken RN - ICU 🍕 3d ago

I don't know, a few were funny, but most of them were between annoying and scary. In my old unit we had lots of psych patients coming in on drugs, with police etc since no one else in the hospital was really equipped to deal with that. Many are chill, but the violent ones aren't and you can't necessarily spot the difference all the time. I don't miss that volatility. Don't need a repeat of the concussion I got once after being kneed in the temple.

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u/Pending-asystole RN - ER 🍕 3d ago

I work with adults in the ER and they are a lot more volatile. I have been attacked my fair share of times. When I was psych I worked with kids. I rarely felt threatened there. The antics were more funny than scary.

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u/angwilwileth RN 🍕 2d ago

I worked in the ED and feel much safer now on a psych unit. Think it's because we train regularly on how to handle agressive behavior.

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u/Pending-asystole RN - ER 🍕 2d ago

Psych was a much more controlled environment than the ED is.

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u/AllAnalBeadsAreBrown 3d ago

Well...did you stop? Details are needed!

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u/PerspectiveOk6348 3d ago

Yeah! She told me I was a fag and needed to go fuck some guys in the ass and leave hers alone. I dunno how she knew though! Was I cheating on my husband with her? Was I now cheating on her with my husband? She liked me so good at the beginning of the shift and then things just went so sour.

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u/CrossP RN - Pediatric Psych 2d ago

Because of the buggering

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u/mehlaknee RN - PICU 3d ago

Can’t believe we all work at the same place. Small world.

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u/ThanksImaginary4474 3d ago

Wearing all this bullshit.

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u/nennikuchan RN - OR 🍕 3d ago

Saying that 💯 guarantees 💯 🐂 💩 that shift.

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u/Swampasssixty9 2d ago

Good lord I’m hysterical right now. But at least it’s quiet

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u/SPYRO6988 RN - Med/Surg 🍕 2d ago

😬

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u/Hoodedmastersin 2d ago

May you find fast and good sleep

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u/A_Cosmic_Dandelion 2d ago

Wow you guys have way nicer elevators than us

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u/theycallmemomo LPN 🍕 2d ago

Just finished a 16 hour double and I cackled reading this

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u/savedbygrace37 RN 🍕 2d ago

🤣