TexasNS

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1. My first and hopefully last resignation letter I will ever have to type...

   TexasNS replied to raindrop's topic in General Nursing

   There are people above the nurse manager that I am sure would like to hear about the problems on your unit and the short comings as far as the training program is concerned. On your next day off go talk to the house supervisor and inform your nurse m...

2. Received this email today and I am steamed!!!

   TexasNS replied to MomBSN's topic in General Nursing

   Benn an RN for exactly 2 months now and I find this HILARIOUS!!!! I have even laughed at my self for some of the things that I find interesting while others sigh and pretend to be busy. Keep it light ya'll!!!

3. I shaved off a patient's mustache. Was I wrong?

   TexasNS replied to NebbyLPN's topic in General Nursing

   Just for the sake of having another story in on this.... When I was a PCA(CNA) A family member (son) asked me to shave his dad. So I did. The son told me to leave him with a nicely trimed goatee. So I did. Then the wife and daughter come in and o...

4. Poll: Male Nurses in the OB? Ok or No Way???

   TexasNS replied to KrisRNwannabe's topic in General Nursing

   My favorite debate. Yes I know many of the nurses here were once patients delivering their children. Honestly though do we as nurses feel differently about the sexual stigmatism than non medically trained individuals do? I think we do. Knowing tha...

5. The most embarrasing thing you've done at work!

   TexasNS replied to ClaireMacl's topic in Humor

   Classic I will tell this story to all I know!!! :rotfl: :chuckle

6. Add to the story....

   TexasNS replied to bassRN's topic in Humor

   a pedicure and I told him..................

7. I'm not allowed to buy a Littmann??!

   TexasNS replied to Montessori Mommy's topic in General Students

   Go get your Littman and watch it like a hawk. My first one walked away a year into nursing school. My second one tried to run away around a doctors neck as he was running to a code three flights up. I followed him and we did the code together and ...

8. Our baby was stillborn... Please help me understand

   TexasNS replied to nurse_wannabe's topic in Ob/Gyn

   and will be watched by mine as well............. I lost a "perfect" newborn baby girl named Rachel almost three years ago. Mater of fact it was the NICU nurses that caused my career change. They are why I ditched a 40kayear job to go back to colleg...

9. Wearing scrubs in public...

   TexasNS replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

   I cannot believe you actually posted that. Cheap? What is wrong with an employee of a hospital wanting to wear a uniform and the scrubs their company provides? Its not about being cheap it's about being a professional and an infection control mind...

10. Why do so many nurses seem to dislike working in Med/Surg

    TexasNS replied to LovePeaceJoy's topic in General Nursing

    i work on a med/surg floor and today i saw a dub-hoff tube inserted and 30 minuetes later went to check the patient and the tube was sticking out an old peg site...................havn't seen that before . i love working med/surg it is fun to wat...

11. You know you are in nursing school when ctxt

    TexasNS replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in General Students

    When you speak using "related to" and "as manifested by" or When you can write a complete sentance using nothing but abbreviations

12. Dating Patients

    TexasNS replied to bobnurse's topic in Relations

    As of 1999 in the state of Texas anyhow.

13. Dating Patients

    TexasNS replied to bobnurse's topic in Relations

    I am sure this happens more often than we think. Prior to nursing I had a career as a Correctional Officer in a state prison. Even in that feild Nurses would have relationships with their patients. Yes the patients were inmates!!!! At least once a ...

14. Nurses wearing white

    TexasNS replied to rnmaven's topic in General Nursing

    Wow and I am complaining that our hospital is going to color code Rns,Lvns,Aids, and unit clerks. I dont know I wore white scrubs yesterday to clinicals for the first time (i used to wear the zipper top yuck) and I thought I looked pretty darn sharp ...

15. Any tips for starting IVs?

    TexasNS replied to nurse_wannabe's topic in General Nursing

    I wish I would have thought to search for a thread like this a year ago. I am a nursing student in my last semester and thankfully I have been lucky enough to have been working as a Extern in a local hospital so I get tons of skills practice. There ...