RetiredTooSoon

RetiredTooSoon specializes in Retired OR nurse/Tissue bank technician.

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1. Most ridiculous things you have heard?

   RetiredTooSoon replied to turnforthenurse's topic in General Nursing

   Several hospitals in this area will no longer reveal who the attending ER doctor is when asked before sign-in, telling the patient that if they're sick enough to be coming to the ER, then they are sick enough to see whoever is working that day/night.

2. Most ridiculous things you have heard?

   RetiredTooSoon replied to turnforthenurse's topic in General Nursing

   She was inpatient for two nights for a simple lap chole?? That's day surgery here. I'd be going nuts even before she was admitted.

3. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

   RetiredTooSoon replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

   True. Forty-four weeks is much different than 50. I questioned the likelihood of the doctors being accurate, but apparently the one was well known for being able to judge EDC within 3-4 days, a week at most, so at best, I cooked for 43 weeks. I ha...

4. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

   RetiredTooSoon replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

   I managed to get necrotizing fasciitis from a dental visit. I had a drainage tube trying to empty a seroma on my leg and it was time for my annual dental check-up. They'd asked if I'd had surgery, but I said no, since the drainage tube was just do...

5. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

   RetiredTooSoon replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

   My grandmother said it was from peeing on the side of the road, not the middle. And pimples on your tongue were caused by telling a lie.

6. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

   RetiredTooSoon replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

   While oral sex was not required, home care nurses helping para/quad patients here were told that part of their expected duties may be helping their patients with sexual needs, including assisting with masturbation (helping patient place hands correct...

7. You Know You Are a Nurse When...

   RetiredTooSoon replied to ParvulusPuella's topic in Humor

   You know you are a nurse when: -Discussing dismemberment over a gourmet meal seems perfectly acceptable to you. -The phone rings at home and you answer as if you were at work (Operating Room, Retired Too Soon, RN)-I did this to my uncle once; he was ...

8. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

   RetiredTooSoon replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

   An ICU nurse I know had a family from China whose wife/mother attempted suicide by hanging and was now brain dead. The doctors talked to them about organ donation, turning of the respirator, etc, but the family declined both, insisting that they had...

9. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

   RetiredTooSoon replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

   My mom was pregnant 44 weeks with me. She had two doctors confirm the EDC, based on dates and belly size. I baked for so long, I was dysmature-I'd started to shrink d/t the beginnings of placental insufficiency.

10. It's your turn now, nurse!

    RetiredTooSoon replied to Elvish's topic in NICU

    Amen. I wound up in hospital for 8 days last year with necrotizing fasciitis and 10 more days with complications from surgery to repair the cause of said nec fasc. I knew what was wrong as soon as I saw my leg turning black and I knew what could ha...

11. Can student administer medication without RN supervision?

    RetiredTooSoon replied to AnneN's topic in General Students

    As a first year student, we had to be directly supervised the first three times we gave medications in each form (oral, IV, IM, sc). If all went well, we could give medications without direct supervision, but were always reminded to talk to our inst...

12. If you love your job, what is your speciality?

    RetiredTooSoon replied to PAERRN20's topic in General Nursing

    My last position was as an organ/tissue surgeon (tissue procurement specialist). When families donated their deceased loved one's tissues (heart valves, skin, eyes, bone, tendons), my job was to go to wherever the person's body was, do the surgery t...

13. Do you bag your bodies naked?

    RetiredTooSoon replied to mama_d's topic in General Nursing

    When I was a student in the early 90s, we bagged our deceased patients naked. It was a case of "we've always done it this way"-probably a leftover from when patients were shrouded, not bagged. It always made me uncomfortable to do that; I didn't se...

14. Medical words that make you cringe.

    RetiredTooSoon replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students

    Agreed. I don't like "passed away" either; I prefer either the reality-'he/she died' or, if a euphemism is required, 'transferred to the Eternal Care Unit'.

15. What does your username mean?

    RetiredTooSoon replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Humor

    I had to leave nursing (and all work) due to illness in 2000, hence "RetiredTooSoon".