Fuzzy

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1. "I am a nurse!"

   Fuzzy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   I work in veterinary medicine. Whenever I hear a client calling herself a "nurse", I cringe. She usually comes in with a chip on her shoulder and with a very sick animal that she has been "treating at home". She gets upset when we tell her that he...

2. Dog had emergency surgery last night.

   Fuzzy replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

   Don't feel bad and I'm glad that your furry companion is recovering well. I am a veterinary professional (CVT). I will tell you that my brain shuts down when it's one of my own that is sick or hurt. Fuzzy

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

   Fuzzy replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   The smell, the look the texture, the cleaning up, being close and personal with the situation etc. This is another reason why I tell people who want to go into vet med to do some shadowing at a veterinary hospital. If the potential tech can live th...

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

   Fuzzy replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   Also keep in mind that the picture is different when you are reading the stories online instead of experiencing them in person. Fuzzy

5. Meaning of your username?

   Fuzzy replied to Flightless Bird's topic in General Nursing

   I'm Fuzzy because I work as a certified vet tech in a vet hospital. So I'm covered in hair. Of course I'm "fuzzy" in other ways too. Fuzzy

6. Weirdest/most difficult thing swallowed by a patient

   Fuzzy replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   Some of the things that my patients have eaten include: underwear; thumb tacks; cell phones; toys; nails; string/rope; socks; clothes; poo; spoons; garbage; etc. Oh, I'm also a Certified Veterinary Technician. Some of our worse foreign bodies have ...

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

   Fuzzy replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   We are the nurses of the animal world. In most countries we are called veterinary NURSES. So I would guess that veterinary technicians (which is what we are called in the US and Canada) would include us. I've been on this board for a number of yea...

8. RN in a Vet's office

   Fuzzy replied to alrighThen's topic in Career Support

   It also must be mentioned that most of our job as technicians involve dealing with people. The animals are the easy part. So if you are wanting to get into this profession to get away from people (crazy or otherwise) you need to consider a differen...

9. Acronyms: Where's the COW?

   Fuzzy replied to Brian's topic in General Students

   We use several acronyms in vet medicine: PITA has already been discussed DIC Death is coming or dead in cage SDBD Small dog vs big dog HBC Hit by car TBT Trashed by truck or trailer SOD Stupid owner disease SNOP Should not own a pet Call Dr. Deere La...

10. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    Fuzzy replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not a nurse but I started a new job in one of the maintenance staff positions at the local hospital. Yup I was a basement rat. My first week in this job involved a very comprehensive orientation. I was thinking wow this is an awesome place to w...

11. Patient rights to refuse?

    Fuzzy replied to wezzie, RN's topic in Psychiatric

    I've been on the other side of this door so to speak. I've been a patient. An involuntary patient. If you didn't attend groups, you didn't get to leave as a rule. So I attended groups. This facility (private) offered only one group that was a on...

12. i HATE my job. Does anyone else feel the same?

    Fuzzy replied to Jenni811's topic in Relations

    I have changed my focus. I have choosen to leave veterinary medicine for at least a year. The compassion fatigue and burnout is killing me. Plus my workplace has become more Toxic" Fuzzy

13. Robin Williams RIP: Coping Mechanism?

    Fuzzy replied to aspiration's topic in Psychiatric

    From Ethicrn4life: "My point is i think the LGBT community learned from these movements and decided that they would be in this fight for the longhaul, and would not relinguish til they could be treated as full citizens in every aspect of being a citi...

14. Robin Williams RIP: Coping Mechanism?

    Fuzzy replied to aspiration's topic in Psychiatric

    Ethicsrn4life: I too am a single person living on my own. I also live in an area where there is a lot of stigma. The state that I live in has been in the top five of suicides for the last twenty years. It is currently number two. In the past it h...

15. Robin Williams RIP: Coping Mechanism?

    Fuzzy replied to aspiration's topic in Psychiatric

    Coping skills. Those of us that have mental disorders must learn good coping skills if we want to maintain some kind of "normacy". Those of us that don't often end up homeless, committed, in prision, or dead. Just because we have a mental illness, ...