I'm sure that I've had many nightmares over 34 yrs but one that I remember and was re-occurring was that the entire shift had gone by and I hadn't given any of my meds! Now it was time for report!

Dom't forget to bring your teddy bear to bed and close you closet door..Hugs,Teresa

I certainly agree with you ninelives..Teresa

Bring your teddy bear and close the closet door?  I always make sure my arms and legs dont hang off the side of the bed cuz the monster under the bed might bite me!  And I never forget the nightlight!

Yes, when I worked for a longterm care facility. I used to get nightmares that my license was burning. I also would dream that I was lost in the building and could not get out. I nolonger work for the company and I no longer have those dreams.

NIghtmare??? Prob not but an afterthought affecting your sexual life.... you tell...--->

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I had a complete meltdown in my last patient's home, three weeks ago. I was working in the rural area, in home health care. A "new" company had found me and hired me to take care of a patient who was hospitalized and due home soon. However, soon became several months. I was called, at last, when the patient was to come home. I wanted to be at the patient's home in order to receive the patient and review the MD orders, etc. I should have known the day would end up the way it did...I was given the wrong address and it took a full hour to find the house. I arrived shortly before the patient came home.

During the time waiting for the patient, the co-owner of this company arrived. I sat in the car, while she told me "you have to give this patient ETOH if asked for". I said "no, I do not, and especially because I would need an MD order for this". She then stated to me, "it is the patient's right to have this if requested". I said, "no it is not, because this patient has a very long hx of ETOH addiction, the patient had gone through such serious dts while hospialized, had to be sedated and admitted to the ICU.  Also, a family member had removed one pickup truck bed full of ETOH bottles and cans." I was furious...this person ordering me to do this is not a nurse and not licensed to give me an order.

Long story short, after taking care of the med pass sheets, counting the scheduled drugs with the family member, taking care of my patient, the time passed had been only one hour. The family member left and I was alone in the kitchen. It was there, in private, that I walked around the room wondering "what the heck had I gotten in to". I have never abandoned a patient, so that was out of the question, but I still had 10 hrs. to be in that home. I have never experienced such a devistating feeling, questioning my being a nurse, being treated this way.

I gave my notice the next day. This person told me she didn't need my notice because I was fired. I laughed. She asked why I was laughing. I told her, "because I am 65 years, I have been a nurse since 1978, and at the conclusion of my career, this is the first time in my life I have ever been fired. You just made my day".

I have spent the last 3 weeks just re-evaluating my career. However, a good friend of my husband's, is on the way back to Texas after an emergency situation with his elderly father in another State. I have offered this family my services for respite, no matter when, just for the price of gas. My offer was gladly taken.

Over my career, I have loved nursing and the frustrations were just part of the job. But this last situation was just too much for me.

I spoke about this with my own doctor and the State Board of Nursing. Both agreed with me. I needed the validation that I was correct in standing up for my patient AND the family who was so abused and neglected from the long term ETOH addiction.

You may now call me, semi-retired, "senior citizen" nurse.

Hi, Ninelives,

I wish I could say, "it is nice to hear of another nurse in the same boat as I", but I am sorry to read what happened to you. I don't know why there has to be a "pissing" contest between the various professionals who work in the medical field. Other factors I encountered, MDs who gave me orders that I refused to do, MDs who told me the patient was too old for whatever I was asking for, the State investigators during a full book survery...bad attitudes and intimidation, MDs who told me "what you are asking for is a waste of the tax payers money (when my patient was on Medicaid, and to follow the State Regs I had to have the patient evaluated by Speech to see if she could be taught to ambulate with a walker, if not, then I could apply a soft vest restraint), MDs telling me to "push" a certain medication when the med was contraindicated due to the patient's hx. I have stood up for my patients, and in fact dedicated my career as a patient advocate. I have been called many names that begin with "B", "AH", S--t", "MF", "Go F yourself". I heard these names so often, I began to wonder if I could get a new credit card in each of these AKAs. But, I answered to each name and let the MDs just wonder what it would take to break me. This is the reason why I continue to wonder, why did this last situation cause me such angst and question my whole career. I have lost sleep, had nightmares and feel almost as if I have suffered PTSD over this last case. In my past history, I could always stand up to anyone in order to protect my patient and their families. This person who gave me the ETOH order, does not know the true effect her "order" had on me, and I did not signal in any way, with my patient that I was in a meltdown.

Hi, I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!!

I want to follow up on my "meltdown"  situation that I posed. I have continued to wonder why I had a meltdown. It was only day before yesterday, that I realized there was a personal contributing factor. That specific day was the second anniversary of my father's death. I had been very involved with him, using all of the assets in the full service facility in which he lived. Even though I had known my father was at end-of-life, when he died, I suddenly felt as if I was alone without a father and a mother. My father's death was followed by my brother's death and then my sister's death. I am now an only child without parents. The time spand of this was only 5 months. I left nursing for one full year after loosing my family.

I have tried to not remember the dates of my losses. But, I knew I was entering the second year anniversary. I did not realize that my father's death was on the day, two years before, when I had the arguement about being ordered to give my patient ETOH if the patient requested this.

I went online and read all I possibly could find about "anniversary reactions". I am writing this now, in order to help other medical personnel who might be experiencing this. Grief and acceptance is a very individual process. Just when one believes they have accepted the loss or losses, the grief sneaks up on the survivor. Once I realized what had happened and investigated, I felt as if the meltdown was on purpose. I should have paid more attention about my own wellbeing. This has always been difficult for me, because I have always taken care of others and placed myself in the position of a nurse using empathy. When taking care of family members who are dying, old unresolved issues crop up, words are not said that should be said such as "I love you".

If any of you who visit this site, can profit from my own experience, then writing this has been well worth letting all of you know. We are human, sisters, daughters, sons, fathers, grandchildren, aunts and uncles, cousins, and friends.

May the Blessing of God be upon all of you as we enter another year of nursing. May your losses be few, and may your happiness reach the Heavens.

 Not exactly a night mare, but it affected my unborn son.  I was working in nicu when I was expecting him, he later went on to nursing school homself.  One day he came back from his clinical rotation and told me, that for some reason he found the "beeping, of the pulse oximeter and the whooshing sound of the vent oddly comforting."  I told him that was your lullaby for nine months, you were destined to be a nurse.

I used to have them all the time when i was an STNA expecially when i started working my first job. I dont know how many times i would have nightmares about being on a hall by myself with all the lights going off, half of them being bathroom lights. I used to also have horrible nightmares about my residents dying aweful deaths like the building collapsing on them. The nightmares uses to come right before a resident passed, both unexpectedly and expectedly.  not so much as a LPN though, thankfully

Nurse_John says ...

I do not get nightmares from my job, but I still have nightmares like I did as a child. I am constantly dreamin of being chased by some giant dinosaur. I have had them for so long that I actually tell myself in the nightmare to open my eyes and the dinosaur will go away as I wake up.

LOL this is also personal not job related, being chased by zombies!!! LOL i guess one time or another we all had that terrible nightmare eh ;P

There's just one thing though that kinda annoyed me while i was on duty at the OB ward, the place was terribly hot (atleast for me) lol, i suffered from these terrible zits that appeared on my face while i was training there for 3 months, after i finshed my training, everything went back to normal, no more zits!

No, but I am presently having real-life nightmates

getting approved to sit on my NCLEX retake

 Having a great day at work where you helped so many patients and you really feel good about yourself.

Then, you go home, feeling ecstatic. You get into bed and know that you will have a great night's sleep. You wake up in tears because of the horrible dream that you are killing all your patients and you cannot understand what you are doing wrong. Everybody looks at you and starts calling you a murderer and they want to murder you!

That is a TERRIBLE dream!! lol