some-RN

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1. Fired from my first RN job after only 2 weeks.

   some-RN replied to Mountainrnbsn's topic in New Nurse

   I had a similar experience for my first nursing job. After 'resigning' from a small-town hospital (I was not from the small town), I took a job as a private duty RN for a quadriplegic for about 3 months in the same small town. The beauty of private d...

2. Common nicknames for hospital items.

   some-RN replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Humor

   Overheard terms "gating the horse" = action when putting on nasal canulla tubing on patient's nose & around ears/neck to provide supplemental O2 "litter box" = bedpan "turtle" = Toradol (= anti-inflammatory IV med used to decrease swelling/pain, ...