birder101

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1. nurse-patient ratio

   birder101 replied to NANCPER's topic in Med-Surg

   Barb, wow those ratios are just downright dangerous. I assume you are talking about ratios for a med-surg unit. Like I said, I jumped ship when I had 9 patients on day shift on a med, telemetry unit. I had a defining moment one day. I just said t...

2. nurse-patient ratio

   birder101 replied to NANCPER's topic in Med-Surg

   Sure, that is why I jumped ship. Work in an office now and love it except for the pay cut. But I am so much happier that it was worth it. No holidays, no weekends and thank God no 3-11 shift. Now instead of 9 patients, I see 35-40 a day but not n...

3. Signs

   birder101 replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Humor

   Funny :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: I have one for you, Does anyone remember the old army commercial Be..all that you can be....in the ar ar army Well, I work in a urology office. We have a sign over the back of the toilet where patients provide sp...

4. nurse-patient ratio

   birder101 replied to NANCPER's topic in Med-Surg

   Oh how I know how this is. I worked on a med-surg floor for 13 years when I had my defining moment. Now I work in a Doctor's office and am sooooo much happier. Don't get me wrong, I loved med-surg nursing, but the staffing ratios where crazy where...

5. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

   birder101 replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   oh my gosh. the peanut butter sandwich in the vag...a is great. What a hoot. I thing that is even funnier than the nursing home porn star. obviously, these two need to get together.

6. A lovely shade of green

   birder101 replied to birder101's topic in General Nursing

   I guess almost everything turned green. For those of you that have never seen the after death experience, you don't know what you missed. It only took minutes before the color change started. Lime green skin. wow I am telling you I was shocked. ...

7. A lovely shade of green

   birder101 replied to birder101's topic in General Nursing

   we switched to the preloaded pellet type and that stopped it. And by the way, our hospital did look into it and it was caused by the dye. Something about the body not breaking down the coloring after death. wow was it an awesome shade of green

8. A lovely shade of green

   birder101 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Here's one for you all. Has this ever happened to any of you. When working in a hospital, it was common practice to put green food coloring in the tube feeding solution of our tube fed patients. This was done so that we could tell if they were asp...

9. Funny Or Horror

   birder101 replied to NEWER7's topic in Humor

   Zoe, Funny Funny Funny. That was quick wit. I can just picture it. Yikes:eek:

10. patient caused injuries

    birder101 replied to TIREDmidnightRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is truly why they call nursing "working in the trenches". But don't we all love it. I wouldn't want it any other way. lol Nursing is an art and a science. We all heard that one before. The science part we all get. The art part? The art of...

11. Constipation

    birder101 replied to adrienurse's topic in General Nursing

    Hey guys, Whoever came up with that name golytely was a sick pup. :chuckle

12. patient caused injuries

    birder101 replied to TIREDmidnightRN's topic in General Nursing

    That is a good question, esp when they should know better. But, why should nearly everyone have to fight anyway. A few people have abused the system and therefore, everyone that is injured is trying to get time off with pay. Tell your daughter to ...

13. patient caused injuries

    birder101 replied to TIREDmidnightRN's topic in General Nursing

    yes, teeituptom, I had a lawyer and I won, but in the long run, I lost because I will always have this injury, I can have surgery but they said that it could get worse if I have the chip removed. I lost day shift, and I lost 20 percent of the salary...

14. patient caused injuries

    birder101 replied to TIREDmidnightRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes and that is just the tip of the iceberg. I kid you not when I tell you that at 8:30 in the evening I spoke with the workmans comp nurse who asked me what happened. The very next morning I received my denial, in the mail!!!! What does that tell...

15. patient caused injuries

    birder101 replied to TIREDmidnightRN's topic in General Nursing

    Oh yea of course I have battle scars. Besides getting punched, bitten, spit on and hair pulled, I was severely injured one time when a 200 lb paraplegic decided that my neck what a good hoist for getting out into his wheelchair. He said,"sorry if I...