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Telling family members their loved one has died. The sound of the screams, watching them hit the floor in anguish. Being able to move on to the next patient as if nothing happened. Us nurses and doctors may need therapy.

Smells. Body odor, breath, vomit, blood, infected wounds, poop, urine, you name it. We can have a patient with all of the above, and immediately go to lunch right after. When I first became a nurse it was difficult not to gag, but now it doesn’t phase me.

Ive been a registered nurse working in surgery for 6 years. I recently had a patient in pre-op (for an elective procedure, meaning it was not emergent) waiting to go back to surgery. Her surgeon was about an hour behind schedule because the patient he was currently operating on ended… Read More

3 generations. My mom and her mom. Lots of hair.

My junior high had uniforms we had to purchase from a specific store. In 7th grade I was sent to the male principle’s office, told to get on my knees as he held a ruler up to my thigh to measure how far off the floor my shorts were. They were half an inch too short, so I was given… Read More