Newbie - Nurse

Buenos días,

¿Tienen alguna historia divertida relacionada con una enfermera?

Do you have any funny story involving a nurse?

Una de mis mejores amigas es enfermera, un día fui a sacarme sangre (cosa que me da pánico), y era ella quien tenía que hacerlo, y yo sabía que no lo había hecho nunca... casi me pongo a llorar del miedo, pero tuve que sonreír ya que era mi amiga :/

One of my best friends is a nurse. Once I went to have a blood test made (something that really scares me), and there she was her to do it, but I knew she has never done it before... I almost started crying but I had to smile instead in order to keep our friendship :)

I like that style of teaching! wish my profs be loke you :)

No tengo alguna historia divertida relacionada con una enfermera, pero cuando yo era jovencita quería ser enfermera.

I don't have a funny nurse story, but when I was a little girl, I wanted to be a nurse.

Hola todos,

Hace unos años, yo tenía algunos problemas intenstinal, y tenía que tener una colonoscopia. Estaba nervioso y avergonzado de ir para el procedimiento. Por fin, cuando fui en el cuarto, dos enfermeras vinieron, una era una vieja amiga que yo conocía desde la escuela secundaria y el otro era una buena amiga de mi máma. Ellas hablaban sobre mí, y hablaban sobre cómo conocíamos cada otra, mientras que yo ponía allí en la mesa y morí ....

A few years ago, I had some intenstinal problems and had to have a colonoscopy. I was nervous and embarrassed to go to the procedure. Finally, when I was in the room, two nurses came in, one was an old friend who I knew from high school and the other was my Mom's good friend. They talked about me, and talked about how we knew each other, while I lay on the table and died ....

It didn't feel very funny at the time

When I was a kid this nurse showed me a big needle that was supposed to be for taking blood, and man you would think that it will take all my blood to the last drop, she said it would be ok, I closed my eyes with a drop of tear dropping from my eye from fear, it didn't feel anything, few seconds and she was wondering why was I there? I looked around and HEY it was over, I asked you finished? she said look there and it was a sack half full with my blood, I thought that was easy!!!.

Hola SpanishPod... me hizo sonreír cuando oí mi nombre. Estoy de acuerdo. Suero es una palabra muy interesante. Me acuerdo de cuando trabajé como estudiante (antes de estudiar medicina) en una clínica en Bolivia y siempre les dábamos "suero" a los pacientes. Y me preguntaba "Qué es ese líquido que se le da a todo el mudo?" Ya lo conozco como: 

IV fluids or saline or si se da por vía oral, se llama: rehydration fluids. 

Hi SpanishPod... it made me smile when I heard my name. I agree. Suero is an interesting word and I remember very well when I worked as a student (before studying medicine) en a clinic in Bolivia and we always gave suero to the patients. I would ask myself, "What is that liquid that everyone gets?" Now I know it as:

IV fluids or saline or if it is given by orally, it is called rehydration fluids. 

Question, DocMolly,

Do all the IV fluids fall under that term. Like D5W and the high molecular "soups" like Rheomacrodex™ (sp)? What do you say when they hang plasma, or blood. Sangre?

Gracias.

I use suero as a more generic word to mean IV fluids. If I were going to give someone blood I would say sangre.

Gracias amiga. La Doctora era los más amables y generosas.

Otras preguntas por nuestra estimada doctora.

In English we say heart attack, but the doctor writes Latin in the chart  "Myocardial infarction" do they do that in Spanish too? 

and what do you call the patient's chart?

Me dan las gracias de antemano espero sus respuestas.

Hi Cobre, 

When speaking with a patient I would say heart attack or ataque al corazón. The medical term would be infarto cardíaco.

For medical record or chart, could say: Historial médico o historia clínica. 

Enfermera es my horrible en mi opinion.

Ojala no vaya a hospital a la vida

I am confused about when to use por and when to use para. Can you also say "Voy para uno nuevo"?