I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Humor, Pictures, Stories and Poems => Topic started by: jbeany on June 21, 2007, 05:10:36 PM
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In the last two weeks, my center has had a serious staff shortage. One tech quit, one tech went on maternity leave, and then one of the nurses broke her foot. Today, to help take up the slack, they had a nursing student who works as a "floater" at the regular hospital training to help at the center. He won't be doing much with the patients, but he's being trained to clean the machines and do all the other grunt work so they can make do with fewer nurses or techs on a shift until they can hire a replacement or two. Poor little guy is kind of overwhelmed attempting to figure it all out today. He's knows so little at this point that we had to explain what a dialyzer was. He was following my nurse from patient to patient as she was taking a group of us off the machines at the end of the day. She introduced him to me, pulled my first needle for me, and then dashed away to deal with another patient's beeping machine. He called out to her to ask what he should do next. Distracted, she called over her shoulder, "Go ahead and strip Jbeany."
When his eyes got done bugging out of his head, and we stopped laughing, we explained that she meant strip the tubing and dialyzer off the machine.
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Funny story jb. Why can't something like that happen to me?
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now tell us really.. would you LIKE him to have stripped you??????? :D
Reminds me of the time a few months back we were carrying on as usual in our unit and one of the male nurses was looking after me and we were talking about my fistula being a bit snakey and kind of difficult at times... so this guy pipes up with a little TMI by saying "oh I could do you while I was sleeping. In fact I dreamed about doing you last night!"
uh... ok...
thanks mate I'm flattered and all but I'm not that way inclined.
there were many giggles to be had, and it has been brought up on more than one occasion since :D
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Too funny :rofl;