alesamayi

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1. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

   alesamayi replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Humor

   Stationed at National Institutes of Health - Bethesda Maryland - doing Melanoma Cancer Research on a Surgical ICU. One of the drugs we were using was Interlukin 2 (IL2) - it had some of the most god awful side effects I have ever seen - much worse th...

2. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

   alesamayi replied to scaredofshots's topic in Humor

   Was not sure where to put this - but it was a definite Freudian Slip on my part. 12 hour shift on a Post Cardiac cath/Angioplasty Unit - first 8 hours I had been through about 8 units PRBC's - 2 sheath pulls - 1 vagal response -being vomited on and s...

3. Charting Bloopers

   alesamayi replied to AHarri66's topic in Humor

   One of our CV surgeons was charting and dictating at an alcove I was charting. He said - either I was having a really bad day or the transcriptioinist was having even a worse day - the typed notes indicated that "Mrs.S" has an ELECTRON MICROSCOPE on...

4. Ways to use my BSN other than bedside nursing???

   alesamayi replied to bigd1023's topic in General Nursing

   I had a phenomenal career with The United States Public Health Service(melanoma research at National Institues of Health- National Naval Medical Center and 4 Indian Reservations in our western US) - Critical Care bdeside all the way - but there is so...

5. Thank you's - memorable ones you've received?

   alesamayi replied to Liddle Noodnik's topic in Relations

   My most memorable moment was not a gift - card - flowers or candy but one young Navajo male walking to the door of his room to hug me. To this day this "story" still brings me to tears. I was with the Indian Health Service at Gallup(New Mexico) In...