azgirl

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Spouse is RN

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  1. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Angle and Brain are my most hated names for new babies.
  2. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    I know how AngelfireRN feels. When I moved from Kentucky to California as a child I would say hitch in my getalong and trying to come down with a cold. No end to the torment I got saying things I had heard all my life.
  3. And whatever you do.... DON'T.. FALL... ASLEEP

    I was working at a residential treatment center for seriously mentally ill. I had to stay as relief called off and my boss had told me it was all right to rest in the lounge chair. Fortunitely for me I'm the type of person where everything has to be ...
  4. Medication Aides

    I worked for an assisted living facility that had the caregivers watch a movie about the 5 rights and gave them certificates to pass meds.
  5. Your boss insists on employees taking flu vaccine

    I got the worst flu I have ever had right after getting a flu shot. Would never do that again.
  6. er visitors...a funny

    Years ago when they were called stewardesses there was a requirement to be a nurse.
  7. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Another one I hear a lot is "I could care less" instead of I could't care less.
  8. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    I had to leave a game room tonight because someone had the name "yousnoozeyouloose"
  9. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    I had that name error in a book I read recently. Really threw me off as I had to look back in the previous chapter to see just who they were talking about.
  10. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    I had always heard it was the mispronunciation of Acadian that made Cajun.
  11. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    When I went to school often was pronounced ofen. Now newsreaders and any tv show has offTen. It used to drive me nuts and I checked the dictionary and now that is correct. Now I have a question. When someone comes to join me at a table in lunchroom a...
  12. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    Orientated instead of oriented. Prostrate instead of prostate. That one drives me nuts. I have even corrected people who tell me I'm being orientated to the floor. Telling them its oriented and get a blank look and then they continued to call it ori...
  13. er visitors...a funny

    Just had a relative tell me of her friend who packs a bag when she goes to the doctor, just in case he wants to send her to the hospital.
  14. How to solve the shortage of new grad jobs?

    When my husband graduated from nursing school in 1993 it was the only time we had ever seen ads in the paper saying "no newgrads please". Most of his class had to go into long term care or rehab. A few months later he had no trouble getting on with a...
  15. er visitors...a funny

    I'm so amazed that your ICU lets in anyone who wants to come in. When my mother was a patient recently it was only two visitors at a time. I think yours is very unusual to allow 15 to 20 people at a time in those tiny rooms and to interfere with the ...