WhiteStockings

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1. Please stop making that sound !

   WhiteStockings replied to WhiteStockings's topic in General Nursing

   I too suffer with seasonal allergies and the same sounds that send me up the wall are some of the same sounds that I make myself, and I'm sure they probably send some folks up the wall as well (especially when my throat is itching). I am a Private D...

2. Please stop making that sound !

   WhiteStockings posted a topic in General Nursing

   I understand its allergy season, but how do you cope with being around people who are constantly snorting and clearing their throats? I have always been highly sensitive of certain noises and sounds but some things just drive me crazy. I have Misop...

3. "How did that get there?"

   WhiteStockings replied to TheNGTKingRN's topic in General Nursing

   Don't ask me how but I took a telemetry monitor box home once, it was in my lab coat pocket.

4. What do you think of 12 hour shifts?

   WhiteStockings replied to Joe V's topic in Humor

   I love this cartoon...this is me every day that I work.... all day long .

5. What do you think of 12 hour shifts?

   WhiteStockings replied to Joe V's topic in Humor

   I hate working 12hr shifts. 12 is never 12 or 12-1/2. It invariably is 13 to 14! The perfect shift for me would be 6am-2pm.

6. skirts to work

   WhiteStockings replied to eternalbride's topic in General Nursing

   High Design Uniforms is where I mainly get my skirts from.

7. skirts to work

   WhiteStockings replied to eternalbride's topic in General Nursing

   Hey, I have been a nurse for 23 years and I only wear skirts, and I wear them with my white support stockings (hence the name). I order my skirts from a site online, they are neither too long or too short. I can purchase them in any color and I have...

8. Excelsior Package Pricing Option to be Discontinued

   WhiteStockings replied to WhiteStockings's topic in Online Learning

   OK, so I'm beginning to understand it now. I just got accepted to EC but I plan to take all of my prereqs before I enroll. I have to start from the bottom as I have to take all of the General Ed components. ~White Stockings~

9. Excelsior Package Pricing Option to be Discontinued

   WhiteStockings posted a topic in Online Learning

   I recently just applied to Excelsior College for the ADN Program, and I am awaiing my unofficial evaluation. I received this Email today regarding their pricing package opton which will be discontinued. I'm just trying to understand clearly what this...

10. Silliest thing you ever did after a long shift...

    WhiteStockings replied to elizabells's topic in General Nursing

    I have caught myself half asleep wandering through the house looking for a beeping IV pump .

11. Let's play: What's that word mean?

    WhiteStockings replied to blueberrybon's topic in LPN/LVN

    Zondek-Aschheim test A test used to detect whether a woman is pregnant by noting the effect on the ovaries of an immature mouse or rabbit injected with her urine. Viscerotonia

12. Song lyrics that remind you of nursing...

    WhiteStockings replied to grace90's topic in Humor

    I worked night shift with a nurse that would always sing "Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to go to bed" :zzzzz when we would be getting off in the mornings. I dont know who made that song.

13. Let's play: What's that word mean?

    WhiteStockings replied to blueberrybon's topic in LPN/LVN

    sphenpalatineganglioneuralgia Say: sfee-noh-pal-uh-teen-gan-glee-oh-new-ral-juh This huge word means an ice cream headache. You know, the feeling you get when you eat something really cold and your head goes "Yow!" :smackingf I just had one today, a...

14. Let's play: What's that word mean?

    WhiteStockings replied to blueberrybon's topic in LPN/LVN

    Von Willebrand's disease- A hereditary disorder in which the bleeding time is increased. My word is Zoopsia

15. Terminated or dismissed from Job by a letter or E-mail

    WhiteStockings replied to WhiteStockings's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to everyone who has reponded to this thread. Just to give you a quick update I have been trying to get in contact with my supervisor since I received my letter of discharge from my job two days ago but guess what my supervisor is on VACATION :...