mmiriamasher

mmiriamasher

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About mmiriamasher

mmiriamasher specializes in Cardiac surgery ICU.


Retired after 40 years of nursing

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  1. The Infamous Cab-ulance

    Here we pay for the ambulance, free if you get hospitalised, but you have to present your discharge letter from the hosptal. Road accident, the car insurance pays, but you have to get a police report to prove it was a car accident. Intensive care am...
  2. Having a celebrity as a patient

    I took care of a former president, former prime minister, former chief justice, can't remember who else. Their privacy was sacred, no one allowed to visit except close family, and they hardly came so as not to disturb us or the patient. Security ever...
  3. Shocking story of the day

    I wouldn't like to be your patient, that's certain!!! Also some of the other nurses after reading their comments!!! Never heard of aseptic methods????
  4. Did you keep your nursing books?

    Find someone who can use the books you don't want to keep. They could be helpful to someone who is short on money. I left mine on the ward library when I retired. i used them at work because I also taught what I learned from them
  5. An all time low for a new night shifter

    Looks like you're not made for night shift, some people aren't, including me. I just told them if they didn't put me off night shifts I should have to go. It helped,and I never worked nights again. Now I'm happily retired. We had a nurse who worked o...
  6. Should a gay male LPN reveal his sexual orientation...

    Your sexual orientation or sex life is nobody's business, it's your private life, and if anyone asks you, tell them it's private, not public information. Also personal questions if you are married, single, engaged, how many kids, if any, whatever. Ju...
  7. Being Naked Where I Work: A Nurse With Cancer

    For me it's my second cancer, had thyroid cancer 25 years ago but didn't have to be naked except in the operating theatre. Now I had breast cancer so of course I was naked, but I was asleep before I knew it. Today I finished my radiotherapy and the t...
  8. Very sensible of you to have it double checked and good for you and the patient. That's why certain medications have to be checked by another person, to prevent mistakes. And you did it by the rules. Good for you. Remember we are all human, and we al...
  9. For Those Considering A Career In Nursing

    Ruby, I've been in nursing since 1967, I'm retired now, but reading your article brought back memories of the good old days in my nursing career. I was never sorry I went to nursing school or worked as a nurse. Training was different then, exams easi...
  10. Could I be the only reformed misfit in nursing school?

    I admire you. Wish you best of everything in your nursing career
  11. Getting overpaid. Should I tell payroll?

    Twice in my 40 years'career I was overpaid, and twice I reported it to payroll as soon as I saw my pay check. If I hadn't, they'd either think I was too stupid to understand the pay slip, or dishonest enough not to report it. I didn't was to seem nei...
  12. Older nurses taking forever to computer chart

    You really make my blood boil after reading what you wrote!! You are so rude and arrogant!! For your information, I was the oldest nurse on the unit (I'm retired now), but I knew ( I still do) how to use the computer, I taught the others, yes, even t...
  13. At what age did you decide on nursing?

    I was 17 when I went to nursing school, no university studies in those days. I finished my RN studies when I was 20 and worked till I retired at 58.5 (yes, early retirement!!!) Went for my Bachelor's at 40!! I was single at 17, but married with two h...
  14. Help! Dealing with Alzheimer's!

    I feel for you, I know what you're going through. My younger brother has advanced AD, he's only 61.He used to teach at the universities. He's going downhill like a free fall. He can't read or write anymore, can't talk, doesn't recognise us. He's home...
  15. Pregnant in Nursing School....

    When there's a will there's a way!!! Good for you. I'm verey glad for you and hope you inspire others to be like you