theplugger

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1. Do you need to carry your personal cell phone while at work?

   theplugger replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

   :rolleyes:Slightly off topic, but now I AM feeling older than dirt...the metal detector??? I worked in a big city VA, Denver, and walked right through the main door and up to my floor, any time day or night (I worked graveyards), no metal detector (...

2. Do you need to carry your personal cell phone while at work?

   theplugger replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

   Ditto to Tweety. I'm a retired RN, getting old as dirt, so in our day there wasn't any such thing as having a personal cell phone at work (or even at all, for that matter), and I did manage to successfully work night shift and raise kids as a single...

3. Which nursing skills do you dread?

   theplugger replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

   Cleaning up emesis, especially projectile and espcially GI bleed projectile....I'll gladly add those to your list. And with all those things listed it's imperative that one not make faces and make the patients feel worse than they already do for ma...

4. Share Your Saying

   theplugger replied to angelique777's topic in Humor

   One quote that quickly comes to mind (and often comes to mind) was from one of our instructors: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

5. We Are Twisted?

   theplugger posted a topic in Humor

   As a retired RN, this joke really hit my funny bone. Wait a minute! It IS a joke, isn't it?? Did you hear about the nurse who died and went straight to hell? It took her two weeks to realize she wasn't at work! You know you're a nurse if... You w...

6. recent colonoscopy experience

   theplugger replied to mat/childnurse's topic in Gastroenterology

   In going back and rereading this thread from the beginning, I discover that this first post sounds amazingly (and sadly) similar to my experience as related in my post of June 11, 2005. The more I thought of it, the more infuriated I became, and rel...

7. What was IV tubing made of before the invention of plastics?

   theplugger replied to sunnyjohn's topic in General Nursing

   Hopefully someone here will be able to tell you more about current ECT procedure since I haven't been in Psych nursing for umpteen years, but I do know they don't use it nearly so often since the advent of chemical treatments, i.e., tranquilizers and...

8. What was IV tubing made of before the invention of plastics?

   theplugger replied to sunnyjohn's topic in General Nursing

   This thread has really taken me back to both the amusing and the amazing! What I remember about paraldehyde was not the IV method, but we used to have to mix it in some juice in a glass...right, NOT PLASTIC...and have those alcoholics drink it! :w...

9. recent colonoscopy experience

   theplugger replied to mat/childnurse's topic in Gastroenterology

   True about it not always being an option, and it also doesn't bypass that "worst" part, THE PREP, which is still a necessary evil with the virtual colonoscopy. I don't recommend the virtual to my friends, but I do recommend they do not just take th...

10. recent colonoscopy experience

    theplugger replied to mat/childnurse's topic in Gastroenterology

    It's been over a week since my traumatic experience and I've done much reflecting on it and on the responces. So now I'd like to add more feelings about my colonoscopy experience and about how I (still) feel about colonscopy in general. First of a...

11. recent colonoscopy experience

    theplugger replied to mat/childnurse's topic in Gastroenterology

    Hi, I'm a retired RN who has had only a few personal healthcare experiences, most of them very positive. For example, when I needed a rhc and pulmonary angio I was full of anxiety only to find that the procedure was not nearly as horrid as my mind h...