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

   ails replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   One time in the OR, I scrubbed for an Ex-Lap case. The patient is a young male in his early 20s and has been suffering stomach pains since he was a child (so long, imagine that pain...). When the patient was opened up, the surgeons found out that the...

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

   ails replied to yazisizit's topic in Humor

   Hmmm...could that dead kitty be her pet she forgot she had?

3. Why Women Take So Long in the Bathroom

   ails replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Humor

   So true! Thanks for posting, made me laugh a lot!

4. Loculated Pleural Effusion & NCP for CTT

   ails posted a topic in Student Assist

   Need help with loculated pleural effusion. How do you describe it? The Brunner (and some other) books describe it as being "walled-off". Sorry if I don't get what it means but it's one of the things that make it a bit harder for us foreign students w...

5. Help with ARF secondary to AGE

   ails replied to ails's topic in Student Assist

   Thanks very much for your help for the third time :)

6. Help with ARF secondary to AGE

   ails posted a topic in Student Assist

   Hi everyone! My groupmates and I are currently working on a case study about a patient diagnosed with Acute Renal Failure secondary to Acute Gastroenteritis. For the pathophysiology part, how can AGE lead to ARF? Our patient has hemorrhage. From the ...

7. Help: Relation of Inguinal Hernia with High Risk Pregnancy Report

   ails replied to ails's topic in Student Assist

   What is the relation of inguinal hernia to high risk pregnancy? All I know is that when the intestine gets incarcerated in the inguinal canal, it carries with it a uterine ligament. Which is it? And how is it detrimental to pregnancy? Thanks a millio...

8. Help: Relation of Inguinal Hernia with High Risk Pregnancy Report

   ails posted a topic in Student Assist

   Can anyone help me with my case report? My case is a high risk pregnant woman with inguinal hernia. I'm going to have my oral report to my clinical instructor next week and I still haven't figured out how inguinal hernia can be detrimental to pregna...

9. What do you think about floaters?

   ails posted a topic in General Nursing

   I do have one tiny floater which I got last April or May. It shrunk but it did not completely go away. I can't imagine how other people with severe floaters feel. I found this online petition for cure on floaters. Maybe some of you who would like to ...

10. Negativity????!!!!!!!

    ails replied to Hospice4me's topic in General Nursing

    Just this April/May, our teachers (all nurses) were having heat between them. It was like a previous faculty member vs. the new faculty. Because of this fight, the new faculty had intentions of resigning. The result, that previous faculty member resi...

11. Charting Bloopers

    ails replied to AHarri66's topic in Humor

    Our teacher always tells us that in writing nurse's notes, it should include the whereabouts and activities of the patient. Here's something my teacher told us. It's not exactly the same but it goes like this: [...assisted Patient X in standing ...

12. Some Jokes...

    ails posted a topic in Humor

    Nurse 1: Hey, why do you have a thermometer on your year? Nurse 2: Oh my, which ass did I put my pen into? ================== :lol_hitti ================== In the mental institution, one of the patients is singing while in bed (in supine position). L...

13. will somone enlighten me?

    ails replied to sweetface18's topic in General Nursing

    I'm still a student but here're what I think: - Nursing is service, as symbolized by the cap, and the "reward" one gets from serving people and taking care of the sick feels so great. I think no other profession can feel that happiness. - On the sa...

14. Make up...?

    ails replied to ails's topic in General Nursing

    Haha, I finally found a way to get away with it. Our professors said wear make up, they did not specify which. Since I sweat like hell, I don't wear powder. I also don't wear mascara or lipstick because they're sticky and do not make me feel comforta...

15. Please help, I'm hearing impaired but------

    ails replied to stilquilty's topic in Stress 101

    I am not hearing impaired but I've hearing problems. My ENT told me that when I clean my ear with ear buds, it pushes the ear wax farther into the ear canal. And so, I used to feel how it is to be deaf, sort of... I'm all right now but sometimes, I m...