Thursday, December 10, 2009

Few nursing jokes!



Though it is better for you all to laugh once in a while...
After all it is the best cure that nature could ever provide..


Three wishes..
A nursing assistant, floor nurse, and charge nurse from a small nursing home were taking a lunch break in the break room. In walks a lady dressed in silk scarfs and wearing large polished stoned jewlery.

"I am 'Gina the Great'," stated the lady. "I am so pleased with the way you have taken care of my aunt that I will now grant the next three wishes!" With a wave of her hand and a puff of smoke, the room was filled with flowers, fruit and bottles of drink, proving that she did have the power to grant wishes before any of the nurses could think otherwise.

The nurses quickly aurgued among themselves as to which one would ask for the first wish. Speaking up, the nursing assistant wished first.

"I wish I were on a tropical island beach, with single, well-built men feeding me fruit and tending to my every need." With a puff of smoke, the nursing assistant was gone.

The floor nurse went next."I wish I were rich and retired and spending my days in my own warm cabin at a ski resort with well groomed men feeding me coccoa and doughnuts." With a puff of smoke, she too was gone.

"Now, what is the last wish?" asked the lady.

The charge nurse said," I want those two back on the floor at the end of the lunch break."


Five Minutes

A hospital posted a notice in the nurse's lounge saying: "Remember, the first five minutes of a human being's life are the most dangerous." Underneath, a nurse had written: "The last five are pretty risky, too."



Baby Names

A pregnant lady was in an accident and she woke up in the hospital.

She noticed she was not pregnant anymore and asked the nurse what happened to her baby.

The nurse said, "You have two healthy babies, a boy and a girl!"

The lady said, "Oh, I must name them," but the nurse said, "You were unconscious, so we called your brother, and he named them!"

The lady said, "But he's as dumb as a box of rocks! So what are their names?"

The nurse said, "The girl is called "Denise."

The woman replied, "Well that is a pretty name, so what did he name my boy?"

The nurse replied, "Denephew!"




Getting Even

Four nurses all decided to play a joke on the doctor they worked for, whom they all felt was an arrogant jerk.

Later in the day, they all got together on break and discussed what they had done to the doctor.

The first nurse said, "I stuffed cotton in his stethoscope so he couldn't hear."

The second nurse said, "I let the mercury out of his thermometers and painted them all to read 106 degrees."

The third nurse said, "Well, I did worse than that. I poked holes in all of the condoms that he keeps in his desk drawer."

The fourth nurse fainted.




A Routine Physical

A man goes to a doctor for a routine physical. The nurse starts with the basics.

"How much do you weigh?" she asks.

"Oh, About One-sixty-five." he says.

The nurse puts him on the scale. It turns out that his weight is 187. The nurse asks, "Your height?"

"Oh, About six feet," he says.

The nurse checks and sees that he's only 5 feet 8 3/4 inches. She then takes his blood pressure, and it's very high.

"High!" The man explains, "Well, what did you expect? When I came in here, I was tall and lanky. Now, I'm short and fat!"

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

tracheoplasty = plastic surgery on the trachea


Around this time there are three tracheoplasty patients in our units. The privilege of this particular surgery is that this surgery re-instate those patient's talking ability.
One of those patient is Mr... who was a clerk before he met an accident and had to undergo a trachiostomy surgery. He is only 25 years and imagine what miserable his life could have been with an artificial airway to breath and a mouth which produce no sound at all. As far as I am concerned he is the lukiest among those three. Yes, others are also benefited. But they were suffering from cancers and over 50 years of age.

tracheoplasty = plastic surgery on the trachea

Saturday, September 19, 2009

WHY THE MOTHER NATURE TAKES EVERYTHING FROM ONE AND GIVES EVERYTHING TO ANOTHER?


Last week a patient admitted to our unit. He was 65 years old. Though he had to work for his life. He wife was dead. His two children had abandoned him. To double his misery he recently developed a tongue CA.
He was admitted for an Oesophagoscopy. It too went wrong and his oesophagos got ruptured. Now he is with not one but two I.C. bottles. He is suffering to the fullest and everything doing behalf of him seems like going wasted.
Every time I see him this question comes into my mind.

WHY THE MOTHER NATURE TAKES EVERYTHING FROM ONE AND GIVES EVERYTHING TO ANOTHER? Is this justice enough?








Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Have u felt this too?

 I work in an a E.N.T unit as a nurse. It is not a heavy unit. Only 55 beds are available. (I don't know about your countries but in my country it is considered as a light unit. There are only 15 nurses working in our unit. As most of them are seniors I sometime feels I am too small. I am not complaining that those more experienced and matured colleges of mine are are bulling me. Event hough they help me, the feeling sometimes make me uneasy. I wish to have some more juniors or colleges from my own batch.




Monday, September 7, 2009

I am back!

I am back for my next vacation. During my work days I had a lot to do with sleep studies. So I decided to give u guys some ideas of what was it all about. 



Sleep studies allow  to measure how much and how well you sleep. They also help show whether you have sleep problems and how severe they are.

Sleep studies are important because untreated sleep disorders can increase your risk for high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, and other medical conditions. People usually aren't aware of their breathing and movements while sleeping. They may never think to talk to their doctors about sleep- and health-related issues that may be linked to sleep problems.

Doctors can diagnose and treat sleep disorders. Talk to your doctor if you feel tired or very sleepy while at work or school most days of the week. You also may want to talk to your doctor if you often have trouble falling or staying asleep, or if you wake up too early and aren't able to get back to sleep. These are common signs of a sleep disorder.

Doctors can diagnose some sleep disorders by asking questions about your sleep schedule and habits and by getting information from sleep partners or parents. To diagnose other sleep disorders, doctors also use the results from sleep studies and other medical tests.

Sleep studies can help doctors diagnose:
Sleep-related breathing disorders (such as sleep apnea)
Sleep-related seizure disorders
Parasomnias (such as sleepwalking)
Narcolepsy
Insomnia
Circadian (ser-KA-de-an) rhythm disorders.

Well I guess that  u guys have at least a small idea about "Sleep studies". I was the one who did all the moniterings. This process was quite long. Listning to someone's snoring sound wasn't the best thing in the world for sure....