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thumperRN

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  1. ...and the winner is.....

    :monkeydance: :monkeydance: :jester: :1luvu: :w00t: :w00t: :biere: :cheers: :smiley_aa :balloons: :welcome: :biggringi CONGRATULATIONS!!!! A JOB WELL DONE!!!!!! JUST GOES TO SHOW, YOU CAN NEVER GIVE UP!!!!
  2. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    When I discharge people and walk them to the door to exit the hospital I like to tell them "Don't come back - we don't want repeat customers" That usually always gets a smile and a chuckle.
  3. Travel Nurses!!! I Need Your Help!!

    Wouldn't dare dream of it!!!! I would like to just stay at home if poss. I will continue to check threads regarding different agencies, any more info anyone can suggest would be helpful. Thank you.
  4. Travel Nurses!!! I Need Your Help!!

    I just started a new job a couple of months ago - and I really do like it, but I have also been interested in doing some travel nursing. I am married and have a family - I would like to stay in surrounding hospitals (There are approx 4 in 60 mile ra...
  5. The Today Show

    how in the heck can staff even remember who's who and who's what when the administration has purposefully created labelling smoke screens. invented, imho, to keep the patient from realizing that the housekeeper from yesterday has now become the phleb...
  6. Not a poop or pee nurse?!?

    In the hospital I work we are generally staffed about 4 pt's to each nurse. We perform total care on these pt's as we don't utilize as many aides. I think she is mad that she doesn't have an aide to delegate these responsibilities to. Come to thin...
  7. Not a poop or pee nurse?!?

    Okay, just have to vent a little here. I was working the other day at a fairly new job (which I like a lot), and I was working with another nurse that I haven't shared very many shifts with. She is probably in her lower to mid 40's and has been an...
  8. Welcome to the Missouri State Forum!

    Hey!! I'm from the NE corner of the state - don't think I'd want to live anywhere else in the world - great small community, wonderful school, and near family. So glad to be from MO - so glad this thread is going!! :wink2:
  9. need t-shirts for winter!

    I don't know if you have a ShopKo in your region or not, but that's wear I get mine. They are sooo comfy and are most usually on sale for around $6 to $8 - they have been pretty durable for me as some of them I've had for a couple of years. They al...
  10. Where were u 9/11/01?

    I was working as a secretary in a grain elevator when the news came over the radio. I'm from a very small community and the elevator was one of the gathering places - kind of like the beauty parlor for farmers. We had a room full that day - all in ...
  11. LPN or RN?

    Amen to that!! I was an LPN before getting my RN degree, and it was by far and away the best route for me. Like so many have said, it landed some extra cash in my pocket while attending school for my RN. It also gave me the experience and confiden...
  12. I recently started a new job - which I LOOOVE, and am so much happier at, but the other day, I had a pt who was upset that the lab was coming to "stick her" when a nurse on another floor drew her blood through her saline lock, and told her she wouldn...
  13. Need help - blood draws

    Thank you all for the advice - doesn't sound too bad. They gave me the option of going to the lab for a morning and watching a phlebotimist if I wanted to - I might take them up on that offer as well. Thanks again for your suggestions. :)
  14. Need help - blood draws

    I am starting at a new facility (Thank goodness!!) and will be doing some of my own blood draws. This is something I've never done before and would like to know the differences between starting IV's and doing blood draws. I don't have any probs sta...
  15. The Phone Rang!! The Phone Rang!!!

    me too!! congrats to you, too!! thank you all for the support - means so much to be able to come to this place and share good news, bad news, frustrating news, accomplishments, questions, and so on and so on...what a great place!!!!!! :smiley_aa...