 Hey guys, welcome back to the latest video today. I've got nurse bass On my channel, and you don't know who he is link will be down below. So go subscribe to him He does very kind of similar things to what I do. So if you are a nursing student, he copies me I really take all of her ideas and just rehash them You want to see the same thing twice? No, I'm just kidding. So he does a lot of that's good inspiring and motivating nursing videos But today we want to do like a story time nursing video where we just Kick back and talk about some funny weird strange things that have happened to us as nurses So why don't you get started? So This didn't happen to me, but it happened to a nursing Classmate in my cohort and you probably heard similar stories and like this is one of those horror stories that You know everybody fears is gonna happen to them. So this guy very nice guy smart kid bright kid First semester of nursing school. He went it was like a 7 a.m. Clinical on a Med search floor and he did not eat anything at all that morning And this may have been like week one week two very early on Blacked out in the patient's room just smack the floor it was I'm sure a lot of us have heard those stories about like people blacking out. This really happened to this kid and I Don't know if he got sent home from clinical because of that. I kind of don't think so, but I Have a similar story. I actually have a video on this So I'll just keep it brief and you can watch that video if you want, but I have a video About I almost fainted my first day of clinical literally I was so excited for this first clinical day that I didn't sleep for probably like the five days prior Like I was very mental sleep and then I got sick on top of it So I just didn't already feel good and I had a patient Patient, you know, I was in this long-term care that I got assigned to and they had a stage 4 pressure ulcer on their coccy Yeah, and it was huge probably the worst one I've seen even to this day And I've seen some nasty wounds and she was having diarrhea It was all up in her wound and I remember standing there the wound nurse and the doctor were in there looking at it And I was just like starting to get lightheaded tunnel vision And I have a very I'm not grossed out by things. So for that to happen I had to leave the room and I texted my friend I went to the bathroom and I texted my friend She's like, where are you? And I was like, I don't feel good You know, and I was like questioning everything about being a nurse on that day So I was like if I can't even see this happen to be a nurse Like I've been watching the TLC discovery channel all these things for years seeing all this nasty stuff and like But seeing in person when you're right there smelling it. Yeah, you know, what's your weakness? What's like your do you have something that like triggers you? Like body fluids and that's gross. I really don't but the other day I Had a patient that was intubated and they were just Drooling out all this because it looked like vomit and mucus combined just all this stuff And I went to suction it and you know when you go to suction and it like gets stuck on the end the big blob And I was like I kind of do like a mini gag like not a real gag kind of like a pretend gag And the cna that was in there helping me at the time. She's like, is that your weakness? And I was like, I don't know but that I think a lot of people weakness really is like sputum and things like that I don't think that I really come across one except the last shift that I worked. I had a patient had a colostomy And I've had patients who've had colostomies before but this was the worst You know you turn in the head as you're emptying it feel bad for the person But I was just like it was a beast Yeah, and I we don't mean for any of these things to come off as being rude We're trying to be real life. This is this is nurse talk. I had actually wasn't my patient I was watching for a nurse that went on lunch and she's like this patient's colostomy bags filling up like every 20 30 minutes Oh, no, it was an ileostomy. This was an ileostomy. So it was up higher and She's like so like you're gonna have to go into probably empty I should call you if she's empty. I went in there to empty it the bag was Hugely inflated and it had chunks of bacon in it like that was not Digested and I was like, oh my gosh. It was so really neat and a bacon with the Yeah, like we didn't talk about this right now. Oh, it was so gross And I had another one that literally exploded all over the patient like it's leaking everywhere So I got creative and we have this little device where you can hook the pouch to this like a fully tube And so straight into boy back It's actually pretty I was a genius. Yeah, I was not changing that out. I had a senior nurse He's been working on my department for like 30 years and it was that night. I was caring for that patient He's like my first time in nursing school day one. I had a patient with a colostomy Blew up on me white scrubs He said so now even to this day 30 years 30 years later like every time I have a patient with a colostomy or something I just get that Those nursing flashbacks. We get so many of them in the ICU like new Colostomies, but the only the good thing about that is it takes a while for the thing Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm putting it going and output by that time. You're downgraded to like tell your meds are Sorry telling that search. This is kind of a funny story. I had a patient Couple weeks ago who was super super cold had like 10 blankets on her and it's not febrile didn't have a temperature nothing like that but like just was super super cold and Kept asking for warm blankets and literally had so many of them and every time I went in with another one When I would say would you like this one to be put on top like underneath all the other ones so you can feel the warmth She's like no no no, so I kept giving her a minute. Well, finally, I give her one She's just got blankets stacked this time ton of blankets So finally I give her another one and then she calls me like 30 seconds out of our walk out of the room And she's like actually you know what I don't ask for much But this blanket that you brought it was not warm and I just asked for warm blankets And I want I had to keep my mouth shut because literally she had been calling every five or ten minutes all day long So I'm like, okay. Let's take all these blankets off. We'll get you some warm one So I get go get like five more warm blankets. We take all the other ones off put all the one ones on She's like, oh, I feel so warm. I was like, okay. I'm glad you feel warm now. I'm glad you got this Established in the room calls me and and I'm like, what can I do for you with that like fake smile on your face? Like what what what do you want now? And she's like, can I get some ice chips and I looked at her and I was like Thought you were cold. I thought you were cold. We just got you warm. She's like Yeah, but I just really want some ice chips and I'm like, do you think that's a good idea that you mean you may get cold again I have to go through this process Yeah, I was so angry. I don't know why maybe so angry. I think it's cuz she called every five to ten minutes all day long And I was just like I finally had it. Yeah You'll come across patients like that where they're just can I bring you anything else? Are you sure now? I don't need it. I finally like and this is hard for me to do at first Still kind of hard for me to do but I have a patient that's calling every five to ten minutes like literally It makes you wonder like You just you just lay out the ground marketplace I just laid down I say look got a lot of sick patients Nice you I can't be in here every five to ten minutes because I also taking care of other patients I will come in once an hour. You think of everything that you need In that hour, but I give you this piece of paper. You write it down. You think about it and when you you know When I come in I will get you those things, but I cannot come in here every time you call every single time And I feel like it's like a reality shock when they get transferred to med surgery Telly because then nurses are just so busy on those stores and in the ICU we've got two patients So we're able to be a little more available. They're gonna meet their needs more You you were talking about whenever the almost fainted and you were like I can't even be a nurse Yeah, so I I've gotten this question recently. I haven't addressed it in the video But I'll do it here like the I got a question. They were like If I have issues with bodily fluids like changing a patient's brief, you know, do you think I can make it as a nurse now? And I had a similar situation It was my CNA before I got into nursing school I was in doing CNA clinicals in a long-term care facility and I had seen patients briefs be changed and things like that, but whenever it was on me to do it It was very weird. It sounds immature, I guess, but until you've never until you've actually done it You know, it was kind of shell-shocking. Honestly, it was I was like, God, man It left me feeling kind of weird like can I do this? You know, I know nurses do this every day, you know But it really is just something that it just again this whole repetition thing the more you do it It's become second nature. So for that person who has that question You'll be all right. And it's funny because now at least for me It's just such part of the job that like you you'll be like to your buddy or whoever's nurse next to you like hey You want to come clean up a bunch of shit? They're like, yeah, I can't wait and you just you got to do it You're obviously very respectful patient, but you have that, you know camaraderie that that nursing humor That's kind of messed up. It gets you through the day. Yeah. Yeah, that's good. Some good stories for y'all We're just a nurse talk for you guys So make sure you are subscribed to nurse best if you're not you don't subscribe to my channel He's obsessed getting close to the camera because he likes how clear I'll find you. 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