nosilanurse

nosilanurse

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About nosilanurse

a nurse since 1992

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  1. Following Doctors Orders...or ...

    :roll :chuckle :roll A couple of yrs ago I was working Oncology in a teaching hospital, and at the same time a high school friend of mine was doing his residency on my ward for approx 3mons. One night I had paged him numerous times for a disruptive ...
  2. Don't Lie to Mom

    :roll
  3. USA says "Canada is Cool!"

    :imbar OOOH yes, heaven to betsy, we the Canadians aren't as ass backwards as the rest of North America would like to think we are. And on top of all this we have FREE health care tooo. "If your in an American hospital, you have to attribut...
  4. You Know You're a Nurse When...

    :chuckle You might be a nurse if you avoid the hospital at all cost to avoid being conned into working an extra shift.
  5. call lights

    I agree with hugs suggestions although sometimes u feel like u have no time what so ever to get to do that much hands on pt care in the long run it saves ur feet and ur time, it also makes ur pts feel better.:)
  6. Depressed over salary

    As a Canadian nurse and with working with a Union it is the union and the gov. that sets our wages. Right now starting wage here is 18.95\hr (New Grad) I have been working for only nine years and am at the top of my pay scale 24.92\hr. Yet if a new ...
  7. What Freaks You Out?

    I once worked in a nursing/longterm care home where one woman would spit on everything and I mean everything, siderails, floor, walls, beding, everything !! We always wore gloves when working with her, I could have lost it many of times working with ...
  8. what constitutes a "real" nurse?

    Dear Momfirst; You are definetly a real nurse by my standards and by the sounds of it by other persons as well. I also have 2 little one @ home and they and their father are the reasons why in the last 2 years I have worked only, maybe, 3 overtim...
  9. pre-med for blood transfusion

    Like most everyone else we only pre med when order and that is usually on our AML pts and Stem Cell pts, we also use tylenol and benadryl however we dont use leukocyte filters just are regular blood tube system filter:)
  10. nursing handovers

    I presently work on a very:eek: busy Oncology and Med. floor where handovers are more gossip and rehashing sessions than any thing else and this is one of 2 places that we did not use tape recorders and I find it very frustrating because report can t...
  11. Charting Bloopers

    One time a MDand not a resident wrote this order; "Bath pt od"