Don't Pick Your Nose

For my dedicated followers, you remember (and if you don't, let me refresh your mind) when I was trying to decide if I should do my final semester of nursing in Labor and Delivery or the Emergency Room. Well I decided to choose the ED and got it! So I have been working at the IMC hospital in Murray in the Emergency Department and I have been absolutely loving it!! Really, I have never been in an area that I have felt is so much for me. It is the perfect combination of patient involvement, nursing skills, and a team effort. I absolutely LOVE how much trust the doctor's put in you as the nurse, I love starting IV's, giving IV meds, seeing all the crazy things come in, and having a little laugh along the way.

One of the reasons I decided to do the ER (not the most important reason, but it was a reason nonetheless), was for the funny, awesome stories that I would have. I have heard other people's stories, and I knew that it wouldn't be long till I had my own. So here is the best story of the first 3 days of my clincal.

56 year old female. F/O nasal cavity.
Hmm... for those of you wondering what f/o stands for... that would be foreign object. Reading the chart it went like this: "56 y/o female states she had an itch in her nose and began to itch it. After itching it, she noticed her fake fingernail was missing."
Needless to say, my nurse and I were laughing pretty hard. An itch? Ya right... She was totally picking her nose!!! Haha. JK. I'm sure it was embarrasing for her, but it was pretty funny when she came in and no one could actually see the fingernail up there and so the doctor just started to dig around. When we were about to give up and refer her to an ENT Doctor, she blows her nose and out comes the fake nail. Ya, that is funny. Moral of the story: Don't pick your nose!