Every week or so, I’ll be featuring a meme for members to answer just for fun. This will help us to get to know each other better. You can answer these questions 2 ways:
- leaving a comment on this post or
- posting on your blog and linking back here.
What is a meme?
In the context of blogging and other kinds of social networking sites, it’s finding list of questions that you see somewhere else and you answering the questions on your site.
In my daily troll of other blogs and sites, I find interesting questions that I think are fun to answer. Hence, the birth of Nurse Uncut’s Meme. The questions we will be featuring here won’t always be about nursing, it could be different things. I hope you join in the fun!
I look forward to reading your answers!
1. How long have you been a nurse?
2. What Deparment/area will you never work in?
3. What Department/area would you like to eventually like to try?
4. What is the grossest thing you have encountered?
6. What is the weirdest thing you have seen as a nurse?
7. If you hadn’t become a nurse what would you be doing?
Found the questions via Ward Bunny
Yes Frances as nurses we do get to meet a diverse range of people and we are often fortunate to get to know them on a deeper more personal level through caring for them as patients.
I am all for imporving safety and the building industry would have to be one of the most hazardous to work in.
Rich
meme 1.8 YEARS
2.Public Hospital System
3.Public System or for NSWNA not sure
4.Faeces coming out of a residents mouth.
5.To many weird things
6If I wasnt a Nurse I think I would have studied to be able to teach Special Education
Meme 1.27 years
2.The Morgue
3.Educating nurses
4. Trying to put the body pieces of a chap who had played chicken with a train into the old hospital shrouds
5. So many, so little space!!! Probably the hand of a 3 year old MVA victim that was passed on to me in rural ED by the farmer who had come onto the accident site after everyone else had left (maybe that should be in the grossest? saddest????? category.)
6. An English teacher – was offered a scholarship by Sydney Uni and turned it down!!!! How mad was I???
Meme 1. Eight years
2. ED!
3. Nurse Education
4. Too many gross things! But just recently – liquid poo running off the end of the bed, approximately 2 litres worth (we had to suction it up)
5. An elderly gentleman who had inhaled a AA battery down into his right main bronchus…. and denied any knowledge of a battery being in his mouth at any stage. That CXR was remarkable!
6. I would have been a mortuary assistant most likely
Meme 1. 2 years
2. Surgical
3. Theatres
4. Watching rotting flesh literally drop off of a patients foot
5. Too many weird things…
6. If I wasn’t a nurse I think I would of become a Vet Nurse or ended up in the hospitality or tourism industry
MeMe replies I am a student nurse, half way thru second year.
I don’t think I will ever work in Mental Health, but I have a broad spectrum in what I want to try.
I want to go into Paedeatrics and become an early childhood nurse, but I think I could go anywhere really!
The grossest thing I’ve encountered in being diarrhoeaed on while already wiping their bottom!
A lot of my experiences are new so lots of things seem weird to me that may not be weird to others!!
If I hadn’t gone into Nursing, I would have done a bachelor of science/maths education. This is way more fun and challenging
meme 1. 34 years
2. Burns Unit
3. None – I like my speciality
4. Badly burned child’s finger falling off in the bath while in the acute burns unit
5 A student nurse carrying a baby to x-ray in a bedpan!
6. A pastry chef
Weird!
patience wrote:
1. 34 years
2. Burns Unit
3. None – I like my speciality
4. Badly burned child’s finger falling off in the bath while in the acute burns unit
5 A student nurse carrying a baby to x-ray in a bedpan!
6. A pastry chef
I burst out laughing re the weirdest thing you’ve seen: “a student nurse carrying a baby to x-ray in a bedpan”
1/ 28 years
2/ maternity
3/ justice health
4/ Oh that would have to be a prolapsed bowel as a very new PTS nurse freaked me out
5/ A dog still attched to its victim..it would not let go so they brought them both to ED
6/ I would like to think a artist
yes it was funny Yes admin2 it was a long time ago and it was very funny. But this nurse was renowned for some of the odd stuff she did – but that was the best one in my memory.
Child & Family Health Hey Frances – I agree that the public as well as other nurse just don’t realise the diversity and professionalism of nursing as a career. When I explain what type of nursing I do I can’t tell you how many times people including nurses have said to me “oh how lovely it would be just to weigh babies all the time”! That’s why I wrote a blog on a day in the life of a Child & Family health nurse. I’m so glad that we have Nurse Uncut to give us the opportunity to talk about what we do and I’m looking forward to hearing from other nursing specialties as well.
1. 30 years
2. theatres. Admin.
3Remote area nursing in central australia
4 first young female nurse iin 25 years to work in the back ward full of old schizophrenic males.
5 On might duty,meeting the enoirmous riiver rats that lived in the underground wards of the old gladesville hospital aloing with the ghosts that rattled keys , unlocked doors and smashed plates.
5. An academic – an ancient historican.
MEME 1. 30 years
2. probably A&E
3. rehab
4. not sure
6. the man who should have died after being electrocuted but was still alive, and not just barely but truely.
7. being a pedant in some other area of life – what happened to question #5?
working as a mental health hurse For years I was reluctant to discuss my prfession . Now I am proud of what I do and wonder why people always say ‘wow that must be difficult’. Mental health seems to scare people. Some days we have to dispense meds, do dressings, counsel SA victims, engage psychotic people, treat the drug affected, solve the most strange social problems, assess for suicical intent , educate realtives , deal with economic problems and generally work as social worker, psychologist and nurse with people from 12 to 80.. I guess that is why nursing is never tedious. However the down side is that as nurses we can absorb the chaos of our clients and turn on one another rather than support and care for each other.Horizontal violence is nasty fact.Lets all just send a caring thought to the nurses with whom we work, and who might not always be in super nurse mode.
1/. 22 years made parole for 3 years though in the family business, then became a repeat offender.
2/ Patient Transport.
3/ Working for myself from home.
4/ It was a sputum experience with a sputum cup and a thirsty confused patient…need i say more.
6/ The “will to live” and the “will to die” seem to be equal forces.
7/ I have no idea as I failed my HSC and didn’t matriculate so my options would have been somewhat limited. I was very lucky to have been accepted into nursing.
meme 1. since 1984
2.never say never, always comes back to bite you, but wouldn’t be fit for oncology
3.happy with midwifery/NICU
4.splashing jugs of urine on myself trying to open a sluice while carrying 3 jugs after the midnight catheter bag empty round. Now I only do one at a time.
5.a lady balancing on the end of a bed under the illusion that she was a bird about to take flight.
6.something to do with horticulture, gardening and the environment, have started a home business on the side following my passion for the right to be healthy and concern for the environment
MrNetNurse wrote:
1/. 22 years made parole for 3 years though in the family business, then became a repeat offender.
2/ Patient Transport.
3/ Working for myself from home.
4/ It was a sputum experience with a sputum cup and a thirsty confused patient…need i say more.
6/ The “will to live” and the “will to die” seem to be equal forces.
7/ I have no idea as I failed my HSC and didn’t matriculate so my options would have been somewhat limited. I was very lucky to have been accepted into nursing.
HaHa – repeat offender Rich! I like that. I know that feeling soooo well – even though I never even got on parole yet!
BEING A NURSE?!! As a guy[male nurse] you get very strange comments the have a range of areas. If you present at a new GP and fill out all your details there is a more positive inclusive exchange between staff and the GP ‘Oh you are nurse too!’
Other guys ask the usual sexist based nuurrddd type questions. I tll them to go take a ‘royal-flush’! or tell them of a very frank-blood experience of suction and Resus on a Pt from a MVA with open broken NOF to look into. The stupid questions stop and you do see an attitude change.
If you assist a fallen person in the street attitudes change because you know what to do:most of the gen/public just become ‘frozen’..such a pity.
I think all this ‘warning on TV’regarding Hospital shows is total crap. Where is that inner strenght of the human gone? Do we all need warnings? If the public do not want to watch, switch over or push the ‘OFF BUTTON’ .
Stop blaiming reality. If they see two animals or birds ‘humping’ that is life..accept it..open your minds.
Men and women do have sex..so what is the problem…cut me I bleed…just like you..I am a nurse, and proud of it. I was not the causation of the Atom being split nor the GFC we are all in right now…no nurse did this!