hotdogtimmy

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1. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

   hotdogtimmy replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

   As Winston Churchill said...."America and England....two great nations separated by a common language":chuckle BTW To everyboby involved in the hurricane aftermath...good luck,God bless Tim

2. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

   hotdogtimmy replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

3. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

   hotdogtimmy replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

   Hi There are only 2 sorts of Nurses-ER/ED/A&E...call it what you will,people with Type A personalities who treat patients often without knowing whats wrong with them ....who do bizarre interventions on complete strangers... who routinely take mor...

4. Co-sleeping?

   hotdogtimmy replied to amber1142's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I know from work that we did in South Africa in the 1990's that there was real concern about co-sleeping because it was believed that the baby would inevitably "slide" under the covers and would then be re-breathing its own CO2-and then those childre...

5. Would you have called the doc? (LONG)

   hotdogtimmy replied to SierraN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Hi Sounds like you did exactly the right thing for the pateints' safety and the correct thing in terms of the law Its ALWAYS better to be prewarned abt potentially fragile patients and if this patient had the EMS crew "fooled" and had been seen in y...

6. Nurses struggling with mental illness

   hotdogtimmy replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

   Last time I looked definitely a boy:D it was the others (the other male helo/fire&rescue crew) who had the PE cos I was also the most photogenic !!!! I'm from africa....as in,where men are men and women are glad LoL Nows that the manic side........

7. Nurses struggling with mental illness

   hotdogtimmy replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

   In fact I get depressed abt 25% of the time and its during those periods that I increase my time at the gym/walking and having aromatherapy and reflexology.In fact I find it easier to deal with....cos in the manic phase I lose control my internal cen...

8. Nurses struggling with mental illness

   hotdogtimmy replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

   Hi Have been nursing for 25 years -always in ER and prehospital and was diagnosed ant 10 years ago (following a whole number of big life events) as bipolar. I have tried various meds none of which agreee with me or make me cope better.....I was a ke...

9. Got any funny acronyms at your ER???

   hotdogtimmy replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

   NFP = "Normal for portsmouth" (the city where i work) FLK = Funny Looking Kid FLP = Funny looking parents