aKyRN81

aKyRN81 has 29 years experience.

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1. Letter to the Offended

   aKyRN81 replied to nursel56's topic in General Nursing

   Bwa-ha-ha!!!!! Hijack away!!! This is the BEST thread EVER!!!! Hope nobody takes offense at my blatant abuse of punctuation.................!!

2. Letter to the Offended

   aKyRN81 replied to nursel56's topic in General Nursing

   rn/writer I have, for years, referred to the perpetually petulant as "offendinistas" Oh, how I LOVE this line......perpetually petulant.......offendinistas...... How cool!!! thanks!!

3. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

   aKyRN81 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

   Don't waste one minute worrying about it!

4. Nurses Say the Darnedest Things!

   aKyRN81 replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

   I'm thinking BSE = baseline swallowing eval, since it's attached to ST................ MMSE has been clarified earlier in the thread:)

5. Patient doesn't know he's terminal

   aKyRN81 replied to AmericanChai's topic in General Nursing

   I remember when it was also thought that the woman who had delivered a stillborn would ' do better' if she never saw or held the baby. That also was a 'norm' back then which was not beneficial to the patient.... Sometimes progress is a good thing and...

6. Husband wondering about nursing school failure/dropout rates

   aKyRN81 replied to hubby73's topic in General Nursing

   My sincere empathy to both of you, but want to reassure you that this is NOT a new situation. I graduated in 81, my family wanted to throw a party and I wouldn't let them send invitations until I was absolutely positive and had confirmation in hand t...

7. Mollie Was an Angel

   aKyRN81 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

   Beautiful... simply beautiful! Thanks for sharing !

8. Would You Accept Swine Flu Vaccine?

   aKyRN81 replied to pagandeva2000's topic in COVID

9. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

   aKyRN81 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

   Well......... having an exacerbation would CAUSE exasperation .......

10. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    aKyRN81 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Have you heard people pronounce ask or asked as AX or AXED? ( as in: I axed him a question.)

11. A question about danish , paper, and germs...

    aKyRN81 replied to aKyRN81's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, thanks for your interesting points of view! I did enjoy the danish and haven't died yet, so I guess it worked out alright................ might have been the massive doses of vanc I took after I left the bakery:smokin: Just wondered what y' all...

12. A question about danish , paper, and germs...

    aKyRN81 posted a topic in General Nursing

    This isn't an earthshaking or vitally important nursing question but I'm curious to know if I'm being a bit overboard in this! Saturday morning I went to the bakery to get my weekend supply of danish and the clerk grabbed each one with a piece of pap...

13. What's the weirdest baby name?

    aKyRN81 replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Are we in some wierd repeating time warp here? This thread started in April, 2002, and since then La-a, abcd, and of course the jello kids have appeared at least weekly. Since everyone *knows* that these are actual babies they must be on the way to ...

14. Have we sunken so low? Would you?

    aKyRN81 replied to achot chavi's topic in Geriatric

    To previous poster ! The main concern seems to be about breast augmentation , but you know, there are lots of other procedures to be had. I think much more kindly about such things at my age now than I did when I was younger and everything was in it'...

15. Is Nursing School Like Joining A Sorority?

    aKyRN81 replied to rollydrooly208's topic in General Nursing

    Sorority life in college was heaven, nursing school was hell! The first day in nursing class began with the instructor telling us "Look to your right and then to your left. One of the three of you won't last the semester." Hardly a bond-building tho...