Boneheaded Quote of the Night

“Yeah, he’s got a single lumen foley in his left upper arm.”

Who said this?
A: 1st year nursing student
B: RN with 20 years experience
C: 2nd year resident
D: RN working on medical/cardiac telemetry floor.



Final answer?


If you guessed “D”, you’re right.  Yep, I’m the bonehead.  Think about it though, a single lumen foley… awww hell, nevermind.  Off to ride the short bus home.  Where’s my helmet?

Blackcloud’s back. Maybe.

I knew the streak had to come to an end.  The lack of code/RRT streak that is.  It’s ben since the 13th of June since I was involved in such a situation.  That really is a whole bunch of charge shifts too, by the way.  And nothing, nada, zilch.  Until tonight.  Respiratory distress, leading to a bed in the Unit.  I’m hoping Blackcloud was just in for a visit, nothing permanent.

We’ll see.

Is this a good thing?

Billionaires Back Anti-smoking Effort

Hypothetically speaking, is this really that great of an idea?

Call me cold-hearted, less of a human or downright mean-spirited, but I’m not sure if this is really a good idea.  1 billion less people?  Not necessarily a bad thing.  I mean, we’re seriously overpopulated as it is, with our environment straining to handle the ever-increasing load of folks clamoring for the resources necessary to life.  Water, food, room to live, all are going to be in increasingly shorter supply in a very short amount of time as the world population spirals towards 6 Billion (yes, 6 Billion, with a capital B).  It may just be one of those regulating functions, like war, famine, drought, disease and general chaos that combine to reduce the population load of our planet.

I don’t really believe that and am just thinking hypothetically out loud, but one has to wonder…

Floor Poker

Now that my unit has splintered in two, one being a traditional Progressive Cardiac Care Unit, the other an Intermediate Care Unit (on a different floor to boot) we have almost begun to compete or at least trade for patients.  Sometimes it may be like this:

“OK, so I’ll take this ETOH with a GI Bleed and you get the Chest Pain with elevated troponins since you called it first, but the next batch, I get first pick!”

So a couple of weeks ago downstairs had a pair of our frequent flyers and I had 3 GI bleeders and 2 ETOH protocols (in other words, drunks sobering up) upstairs.  The downstair charge nurse and I were joking around as to who was having the worse night.  As we laid out our cards, er, patients, I remarked, “It pretty much isn’t even worth trying to bluff me out of it, ’cause a full house always beats a pair!”

EKG wrap-up


Here’s the EKG again:






