Canuck RN

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1. Where are you from?

   Canuck RN replied to noworries's topic in Canada

   greetings from northern ontario. graduated from st michael's school of nursing in toronto.celebrated my 40th year in nursing in may!!! the changes in my practice have been so phenomenal in those years. what a wonderful choice of career. loved every...

2. What's the nicest thing a patient has done for you?

   Canuck RN replied to RN always's topic in General Nursing

   There Are Many Things I Treasure But Two Are Special:1] An Elderly Man Was Dying And His Wife And Lodger Were With Him On Admission. I Spent Quite A Long Time Through The Night With Him And He Succumbed As The Morning Dawned. Several Years Later The...

3. Nurses grossed out by spit/mucus

   Canuck RN replied to rnmi2004's topic in General Nursing

   Have To Add My Two Cents Worth. On The Subject Of Mucous(canadian Spelling), It's Gotta Be My Downfall In Patient Care. Have Withdrawn To The Bathroom Many Times To Gag When Doing Suctioning Or Emptying Suction Bottles. Something Else----why Do Men H...

4. How much Verbal Abuse should a nurse take from a PATIENT?

   Canuck RN replied to billssisbeth's topic in Safety

   the last and final time i was assaulted by a patient happened at 2330 hrs when an alert,oriented 80 year old woman laid her teeth into my left forearm.myself and another nurse attempted to dislodge her teeth but they were her own and she wasn't letti...

5. Is it okay to love parts of nursing and hate others?

   Canuck RN replied to luckymichelle's topic in General Nursing

   Do I Love Every Area Of Nursing? Definitely Not!!!! But Having Celebrated 39 Years Of Graduation On May 10th,i Can Honestly Say I Have Loved Nursing For Those 39 Years And Though Retired From A56 Bed Medical Unit I Just Couldn't Give It Up. I Do Some...

6. Post Hep. B Vac. Series and testing for Antibodies

   Canuck RN replied to colleen10's topic in General Nursing

   INTERESTING REPLY BY KAREN G .I WAS IN MY FORTIES WHEN I HAD THE SERIES OF IMMUNIZATION, FOLLOWED BY TWO BOOSTERS AND STILL WAS SERO NEGATIVE. IS IT POSSIBLE BY THAT STAGE IN LIFE WE HAVE A NATURAL IMMUNITY?

7. Your Worst Mistake

   Canuck RN replied to aurora_borealis's topic in General Nursing

   it's now 2004 and my biggest mistake happened my year of graduation in 1965. this will bring back memories for all the oldsters out there and totally baffle all those recently graduated. i was working on a 60 bed public medical unit and as was common...

8. What does your post name reflect about you?

   Canuck RN replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Not Too Hard To Figure Out. I Live And Work North Of The 49th Parallel. Wouldn't Swap Locations Except In -40 Degree C Weather, Maybe

9. The most heartbreaking thing ive ever had to do :(

   Canuck RN replied to *Peanut*Vennie*'s topic in General Nursing

   Been An Rn For 39 Years And I'm Still Practicing. My Main Areas Of Practice Have Been Peds And Medicine. Throughout That Time I Have Probably Been With Hundreds Of Patients And Families At The Time Of Death. It Never Gets Easier But I Have Always Reg...

10. You know you're canadian when...

    Canuck RN replied to I_Love_Donuts's topic in Canada

    You know you are a Canadian when you think Ron McLean and Don Cherry are the Canadian equivalent of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

11. ew,ew,ewwwwwwww

    Canuck RN replied to kcrnsue's topic in General Nursing

    Back in the good old days ,1963, when I was a student, a diabetic patient had guillotine above knee amputations of both legs.Due ti the type of surgery there was no way for these wounds to heal and of course they became severely infected. Enter the ...