cre8tivRN

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1. I'm supposed to wear an "Ask me if I washed my hands!" button?!

   cre8tivRN replied to daisybaby's topic in Activism

   I would not wear the button either! Our institute.........I can just see the button thing happening here...it would be just my luck! At our facility, the 8 year old daughter of the infection control nurse made up a poster of 8 hands with hole punches...

2. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

   cre8tivRN replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

   PRESCOTT, ARIZONA RING A BELL?????

3. Weird, Odd Nurses Behavior.....

   cre8tivRN replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

   Ha Ha very funny. I'm sure you have some odd behaviors that you would like to share with the rest of us??????

4. Pet Peeves

   cre8tivRN replied to sjb2005's topic in General Nursing

   When you hear your IV pump ringing just as you come on shift, and you go into the room, only to find it sucking air. When you go to put a new bag up, it still thought there was at least 200+cc left in the old bag. Why do they do it? It doesnt take...

5. Weird, Odd Nurses Behavior.....

   cre8tivRN replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

   Okay, I thought of another... I often keep running tabs of I/O's of myself and the kids quietly to myself in my head. OOOOOOHHHHHHH, I need to take a vacation! :chuckle

6. Weird, Odd Nurses Behavior.....

   cre8tivRN posted a topic in General Nursing

   As a nurse, and I guess a germaphobe at times, and just generally weird.....I have picked up on a few of my own rediculous behaviors that I guess I have managed to obtain through the years. 1. If drinking from a large open glass on the nurses unit. I...

7. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

   cre8tivRN replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

   As a new nurse in a tele unit years ago, I thought that I would be helpful in watering the nice plants that we had on a shelf above the tele monitors and computers. Well, little did I know that evening shift had done the same, and the gallon of water...

8. what to ask on hospital interview

   cre8tivRN posted a topic in Travel

   Hi everybody. I am going to venture out nov. 1st to california for travel nursing. My first assignment................ :yelclap: Any day now I am going to be getting a couple calls from 2 prospective hospitals in Thousand Oaks, and San Jose. On th...

9. You know you've been a nurse for way too long when...

   cre8tivRN replied to jalvino1's topic in General Nursing

   When you are shopping in Walmart or the grocery store and you hear the "beep...beep" before an over head announcement that sounds exactly like your code blue alarm bell at the hospital, and you stop your cart or tilt your head to listen for the "code...

10. public's view of nurses

    cre8tivRN replied to bulldawggirl's topic in General Nursing

    Somehow the public forgets about us "night-shifters", I think the especially the family just thinks little fairys come in at night to take care of their loved one. As evidenced by...... numerous cards that only list the day shift people, candy boxes ...

11. Is it true?

    cre8tivRN replied to NurseforPreggers's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I had PIH with both of my pregnancies. And I can guarantee that both babies are from the same father- my husband. I had asked the doctor and NP about PIH and what causes it. Her exact answer......"That's the million dollar question, If we knew why ...

12. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

    cre8tivRN replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

    thank goodness the patient was sedated enough not to respond to it at all.

13. nurse locater devices

    cre8tivRN replied to SWAT_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I just love it!!!!!!! this just cracks me up! :rotfl:

14. nurse locater devices

    cre8tivRN replied to SWAT_RN's topic in General Nursing

    My last hospital had those locator badges. We were all issued one. It kept track of everywhere you went and how long you were there. It kept the log for years. Believe me your "big brother" is watching. But you have to wear it, in order for it to do...

15. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

    cre8tivRN replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

    I thought of another time.... We had a nurse with a bad back and some sciatic pain. And when it got too bad, she would go and lay on the floor in the break room for a while to see if it would help. Well one night, the respiratory therapist went into...