Me: What’s their pressures like?

ER RN: Oh you know, 50 over dead.

Me:

Just saw a really excellent, thoughtful post from ZDoggMD on a local matter, the taking hostage of a nurse at an area hospital. I hope you all can watch this an learn more about the situation and how we can support our fellow nurses, doctors, and other front-line staff every shift.

I’m sure that many of you, like myself, have had a patients or patient’s family threaten or actually assault you. Kind of insane, right? Bet that wasn’t something that Flo and Clara and all the other nursing greats were expecting, eh? A lot of us take it as a part of the job.  But we shouldn’t. 

This should not, cannot, and will not be tolerated. There is no excuse for behavior like that. To a degree, when you have some of our patients with brain injuries, psychiatric disorders, drugs or alcohol on board, or various other diagnoses, we cut them a little slack. They’re sick (in whatever applicable way) and need our care. But the way in which people just gloss over how often we are threatened or harmed (such as in this case) is pretty astounding. 

I’m like: 

A few minutes later, after security pinned them down and put them in 4 points, a spit mask, and a little vitamin H was given:

Today he said, if we had of started dating back then, today we would’ve had a family.!

I told him, mentally I wasn’t ready to embrace a man like him. I always have to learn things the hard way. I guess I went through all that drama and came back to square one, so I could learn how to appreciate a good thing when it crosses my path.

Ladies when you find a good good good man, don’t wait or second guess. Don’t chase what excites you, think wisely about the long term and your future. Honestly, there are some weird energies out there. Be careful.