Ok...now ya'll are gonna find out just what kinda twisted individual I really am. I apologize in advance if this offends anyone...but it absolutely cracks my a** up today thinking about it. I sent one of my most trusted STNA's to collect a urine spec...
When I worked in an ENT office a mother came in with her son and told us that her son had "taters" in his ear. Snickering it off and just thinking she just meant he needed his ears cleaned, we got him up in the chair and pulled down the microscope to...
"They dee-cee-did the heparin she was taking" meaning "They d/c'd her heparin." "Corn-fused" instead of "confused". "Olt-timers" instead of "Alzheimers".
When a mother tells you, "There's taters growin outta his ears!!" believe her!! Don't just automatically think that she means he hasn't washed his ears in awhile.
I've worked ED...learned alot. I've worked ICU...learned alot. I've worked telemetry..learned alot of stuff. I've worked ENT, OB/GYN, gastroenterology, podiatry, internal medicine, and facial plastics...learned a WHOLE lotta stuff. I've worked in a p...
Gwenith said, :rotfl: :roll :rotfl: :roll That's probably all I'd bring in with me too!! I just thought of another one... Never...NEVER...lean against the bed rail of a patient who has a history of making poop sculptures and sits them on the rai...
Absolutely apply. We've had many high school students work at a hospital I used to work at. As long as it doesn't interfere with your schooling...not up too late, etc...by all means go for it!
Although I am not a doctor and cannot diagnose, I'm thinking along the same lines as Sharann...sounds like a sick building. Please get him to a good Internal medicine doctor ASAP and have a thorough workup done. Wishng both of you good results...let ...
Great thread..very educational. I worked with a dynamite nurse that was accused of stealing narcs...authorities said she was signing out the meds but not giving them. To add injury to insult, the administration of the company I worked for, used her ...