r/nursing • u/KeepAwayTheNargles RN - PICU 🍕 • Jan 06 '24

Nursing Hacks I’m Watching House

…and he just said, “Get me 40mg of furosemide so I can intubate!” I know medical shows are notoriously inaccurate but that one felt especially ludicrous. I died. The patient did not.

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u/tlr92 Jan 06 '24

My sister in law said she should go to nursing school because it would be so easy after watching all 12 seasons of Greys Anatomy.

She wasn’t kidding.

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u/RoboNikki BSN, RN 🍕 Jan 06 '24

I know someone like this, she went to nursing school, graduated, jumped into OR and immediately left.

Last I heard she’s aiming for a 9-5 in an outpatient setting once she starts working again.

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u/Lington RN - L&D Jan 06 '24

There's not a single nurse doing anything in that show

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u/ElfjeTinkerBell BSN, RN 🍕 Jan 06 '24

That's not true. They are there to have sex with.

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u/Long-Jellyfish1606 CNA 🍕 Jan 07 '24

I want to upvote your comment, but you’re currently at 69 upvotes, and this time it feels appropriate to comment rather than upvote lol

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u/ElfjeTinkerBell BSN, RN 🍕 Jan 07 '24

Nice!

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u/GormlessGlakit Jan 06 '24

Not true. That one nurse encouraged penicillin manufacturing

(Aka spread syphilis)

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u/ajl009 CVICU RN/ Critical Care Float Pool/USGIV instructor Jan 06 '24

i wish i was a nurse on that show

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u/sailorvash25 Jan 06 '24

Please tell her no I’m so tired of working with grays anatomy wannabes we need actual nurses with real brain cells in outpatient too 😭😭

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u/goodiecornbread RN 🍕 Jan 06 '24

My brother was in the ER (jokingly) told his nurse that he know what's going on because his wife watches GA. Luckily they knew he was kidding but he said it was a joke he won't tell twice

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u/miller94 RN - ICU 🍕 Jan 06 '24

Well at least a lot of what she sees the doctors doing on Greys is nursing tasks. Outside of actual surgery, pretty much everything they do otherwise is nursing

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u/doughnutting Graduate Nurse 🍕 Jan 06 '24

Or other low paid jobs. Like carers and porters and admin. Why are surgeons transferring patients and changing bedpans? There are other staff for that.

I watch greys with a friend and she thinks the surgeons have such interesting lives. She doesn’t believe me that aside from the surgeries and the occasional central line they are doing my job!

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u/IJDWTHA_42 Jan 07 '24

Like living in the hospital to get the "good surgeries."

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u/ready-to-rumball Nursing Student 🍕 Jan 06 '24

Oh 😆

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u/IJDWTHA_42 Jan 07 '24

My sister had a hysterectomy over a decade ago and was straight up furious that it wasn't exactly like Grey's Anatomy. I was a nurse, and I was just like, seriously? You thought you were going to make lifelong friends with the docs? I almost laughed in her face.

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u/mumbles411 BSN, RN 🍕 Jan 07 '24

I would have slapped her so hard.