rn500

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1. Silly random nursing thoughts, one sentence, NO JUDGMENTAL FOLKS ALLOWED

   rn500 replied to wooh's topic in Humor

   I'm sorry you are in 4 point leather restraints sir, but I am not going to scratch your balls for you.

2. Starting a PICC business

   rn500 replied to piccme's topic in Infusion

   I am starting to think about this as well. Have you found any sites you could refer me to? Thanks

3. Funny things that pts say

   rn500 replied to jRN4now's topic in Humor

   Man, mid-40's, ETOH detox in 4 point leather restraints. I come in to draw blood from his PICC line. He yells "Hey! Get me out of here! Get these things off of me! I can't even scratch my balls!" I can't help but laugh, and I reply "Yes that is a bu...

4. Guess the mispronounced medical term

   rn500 replied to EricJRN's topic in General Nursing

   I work in L&D in an inner city hospital, so you can imagine some of the stuff I hear.... My favorite was a woman who came in clutching her crotch yelling "Oh my pee-pie, my pee-pie!"

5. Duties of OB nurses (and others) Please feel free to add!

   rn500 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have a few duties to add: Waitress for family members Housekeeper Answering service (Dr Bigtime:"Call Dr Blowhard , and tell him I said...") (Dr Blowhard:"Let Dr Bigtime know that...") Data entry I'm sure there are more...

6. Another Five Star Visitor Thread

   rn500 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

   Oh man, it is nice to hear that we are not the only unit with this ridiculous crap going on! Well, not nice really... but you get my drift. I work in a large OB unit where we truly have NO visiting guidelines. It is a *!% free-for-all here, because...

7. What's your story? Why did you take up nursing?

   rn500 replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

   I had a kid to support as a single mom. I was killing myself working as a fast food asst. manager and making practically nothing, no insurance either. So I thought, hmmm... what would be a job where I could make decent money with insurance, get tuiti...

8. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

   rn500 replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

   OH I SWEAR I WILL NEVER COMPLAIN AGAIN ABOUT MY OB PTS CALLING ME!! You guys are killing me here! OMG my sides hurt!

9. What squicks you out?

   rn500 replied to elizabells's topic in General Nursing

   My "squick" is from back in my ER days: unattached or barely-attached body parts. Even the little stuff, like people who accidentally cut their finger off with a saw and bring it with them in a baggy. I don't know what's worse, that or when they are ...

10. What do patients say that irks you?

    rn500 replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

    My absolute favorite: (as I am about to give the demerol/nubain/morphine etc that the pt was just asking for) "Is it going to hurt the baby?" YES , THAT'S WHY WE GIVE IT! DIDN'T YOU KNOW WE CAN ALL HARDLY WAIT TO BE SUED?? I ...

11. Labor, birth and spectators

    rn500 replied to KRVRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    *******BIG BIG SIGH!!!****** Oh, this is so aggravating. How to explain to a man what labor and delivery is like? Even if they've seen a thousand of them, there is just no way to make them understand. This is a woman in her MOST VULNERABLE POSITION E...

12. RN Functions

    rn500 replied to nocturne716's topic in Emergency

    Alanpe- I think I understand what you are asking - if there is a bad reaction to something that we take the initiative to start without an order (like an IV), how do we explain that to the patient? Also I think you are asking who obtains "informed ...

13. Having to work Holidays:(

    rn500 replied to altomga's topic in General Nursing

    I just want to let all of you with no small kids at home who have so kindly switched to work holidays for those of us who DO, that you are ever so much appreciated, and I plan to do the same for others when my kids are all grown. As for the whole wor...

14. Young, Unfit, Drug Addicted, etc. Mothers

    rn500 replied to alphafe's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Nurse Heather - as to your question, I find that in many cases, babies do go home with mothers who have tested positive for drug use. Apparently, that in itself is not a reason t keep a baby from going home with mom. What happens after they go home, ...

15. Vag exams

    rn500 replied to Nursesuzi's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Do you guys have one of those big square plastic guides that have all the dilatations on there, 1cm thru 10cm? It's like a flat, white and blue (at least ours were always white and blue) thing that can be hung on a wall? My trick when I was first sta...