[Daywalker]

It was still in poor taste for the Dr to have said anything, unless he was asked directly by the presumed father.

[elizabells]

I could also see the conversation going like this:

MOB/FOB: What's the baby's blood type?
MD: B
FOB: Wait... I'm O and mom is O. Isn't that impossible?
MD: Um, yep.
FOB: Grrrrr.

[grace90]

Originally Posted by Emma Peel

I have a technical question about this. Is it the pediatrician's place to inform hubby that he is not the dad? And since hubby is not the dad, is it a HIPPA violation to give him medical information about the baby without the mom's consent. I know hubby should be informed, but can the Dr legally do this?
Jen

IMO- no, it's not the pediatrician's place to do so. Let a lawyer or someone like that do it. And since the 'dad' is acting as a parenting figure to the baby, then it wouldn't be a hippa violation.

[grace90]

Originally Posted by kiyasmom

Further, your story WILL be regaled to hundreds of eager nursing students each year by one of the very humored nurses who helped get all of Nathan out of you.

What a waste of a yummy brand of hot dogs.

[akai6]

Watermelons do i fact contain water..

Just a lil note: Im a dialysis nurse, watermelons are clearly water and a hell of a lot of potassium. I learned this after a patient had a K of 7.2 and fluid overload and ended up in a ER. Good times.

[Franemtnurse]

Originally Posted by Ekstasis

Do not use a pager on vibrate as a sexual device. It will not come out with the use of kitchen tongs and you will end up requiring stiches to repair the damage from the tongs and pager.

That's a new one on me.

[birdgardner]

If you are feeling very depressed, do not drink a bottle of wine, take a (possibly) token overdose, and drive at 2 am to the clinic that helped you last time you felt so bad, while cutting yourself en route.

The clinic does not accept 1) walk-in 2) trauma 3) intoxicated patients. The nurse and the EMTs remember the clinic nurse who was killed when a drunken patient tried to self-admit at 90 mph.

You can skip the scarring/infection risk/stigma, the chance of killing anyone you met en route, the unsympathetic nurse and the groggy EMTs by going directly to the nearest ER and telling them you are very depressed and thinking of hurting yourself, because that's where you end up anyway, with a gastric lavage as lagniappe.

They will admit you. Really.

[oncnursemsn]

Glad this post is still going, some of the examples had me on the floor. Visuals around hotdogs- can't get that out of my head!
Some more examples of what *not* to do:
Don't use syringe from home to withdraw dilaudid from iv drip and give at your preferred rate.
Don't get caught doing the above by the MICU team doc evaluating your for transfer for higher doses of fentanyl drip.
Please don't call your mom in to yell and scream at the nurse caring for you when you were caught red handed doing above.
BTW, note to attending MD. Yes, he really did do this. I'm glad he apologized to you, but I'm the one whose nursing license in on the line if he over estimates his ability to handle narcs and OD's on my watch. We ain't caring for him again. Period.
BTW, what is "car surfing?"

[BlueRidgeHomeRN]

If you are a very pale tourist from the British Isles visiting Florida, do not spend an entire June day in a bikini by the pool without sunscreen.

Yes, "just" a sunburn can get you admitted to the hospital, especially when you have 2nd degree burns over 82% of your formerly pasty white body.

Yes, we know that you wanted to see more than the inside of your room while on holiday. Please share this experience with the folks back home, and learn what "SPF" stands for.

[zoeboboey]

Originally Posted by oncnursemsn

BTW, note to attending MD. Yes, he really did do this. I'm glad he apologized to you, but I'm the one whose nursing license in on the line if he over estimates his ability to handle narcs and OD's on my watch. We ain't caring for him again. Period.

Woo, don't blame you.

Originally Posted by BlueRidgeHomeRN

If you are a very pale tourist from the British Isles visiting Florida, do not spend an entire June day in a bikini by the pool without sunscreen.

YOW.

Then again I am a very pale resident of Maine but I've done some stupid non-SPF stuff in my day. Like sun poisoning in April while spring skiing, my eyes were swollen totally shut, my face was puffed out to "here", and I was sick as a dog.

I've also done the "lay on the beach all day because my friends do it and get brown" thing. Course I was much younger and the sun was a little kinder then too. Still - I preferred to laughed at for being BEET RED than for being PALE AS A GHOST.

Kids are dum eh?