The most terrible 42 things in nursing - can you relate?

It's important to realize how what we do every day affects patients, not just in good ways, but if not done correctly, it can have a negative impact on our patients.

Here are some things that nurses do every day, enough to scare most people to death.

1. Take the NCLEX exam
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2. Call code
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3. Call a despicable doctor, especially in the middle of the night...Oh!
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4. Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation
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5. Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation in elderly patients that you know will not succeed, but your family needs a complete code.
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6. Deal with despicable, scared family members
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7. Assist intubation
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8. Insert a catheter
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9. Promote narcotics
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10. Handle the sudden drop in O2 sats.
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11. Help patients with very high or very low blood sugar
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12. Dealing with patients with respiratory distress
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13. Hear the patient screaming in pain while you are trying to help them
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14. Making drug errors
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15. Try to decide when to call a doctor
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16. Treatment of hemorrhoids ulcers
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17. Monitor patients after surgery
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18. I saw a number of serious injuries in the wounded patients for the first time.
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19. Watching the patient die when you have nothing else to do
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20. Learn how to start IV
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21. First injection
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22. Understand that your patients have airborne diseases when they take care of them without protection.
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23. Being stabbed by a needle and waiting for the test results to come back
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24. First time to see surgery
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25. Participate in ACLS
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26. When your patient falls during shifts
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27. Handling allergic reactions
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28. First reading EKG
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29. Inspiratory tube incision
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30. Intravenous injection of drugs
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31. Resuscitation and acceptance of newborns
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32. Taking care of opioid withdrawal patients
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33. Watching the doctor drill a hole in the patient's skull for ICP catheter monitoring of intracranial pressure
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34. Patients with epileptic seizures that cannot be stopped
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35. There is no medical doctor's precipitation in the house.
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36. Because the doctor can not give birth on time, the child
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37. Your first treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding
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Bring your first body to the mortuary
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See your first stillbirth
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40. I saw another nurse not washing hands between patients.
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41. Auxiliary chest tube
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42. First peritoneal dialysis

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