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No. 20
Old Nov 15, 2007, 12:46 PM

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Here's something amusing a woman at my church told me about: When she got her first pacemaker around 8 years ago, apparently it was rather noticeable as she is a small person and it was bigger than they are now. So her comment about the appearance of her chest was "third boob, one less nipple"!! She said I should use that line with one of my patients sometime (I work on a telemetry floor, so we get the people who have just gotten pacers/ICDs) but I just haven't had the guts to do so...
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No. 21
Old Nov 15, 2007, 02:29 PM

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I was about 8 months pregnant and working on the floor. Had to squeeze (very difficult at this point) past the first bed (it was an odd-shaped room that created a bottleneck) to get to my patient in the second bed. He looked at me and said "You're fat!" After deciding whether to laugh or get offended I smiled and said brightly "Not for much longer!" After I explained myself we both had a good laugh.
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No. 22
Old Nov 17, 2007, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by tiggerforhim View Post
I was about 8 months pregnant and working on the floor. Had to squeeze (very difficult at this point) past the first bed (it was an odd-shaped room that created a bottleneck) to get to my patient in the second bed. He looked at me and said "You're fat!" After deciding whether to laugh or get offended I smiled and said brightly "Not for much longer!" After I explained myself we both had a good laugh.
I thought that when a nurse is pregnant that she is advised not to work. I mean, how could you do the things a nurse does when you are pregnant? please explain.
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No. 23
from Tweety
Old Nov 18, 2007, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by peridotgirl View Post
I thought that when a nurse is pregnant that she is advised not to work. I mean, how could you do the things a nurse does when you are pregnant? please explain.
Pregnancy does not mean you have to stop being a nurse. Usually a pregnant person can continue doing what they were doing prior to becoming pregnant, and this including being a nurse. Sometimes there is a weight limit in which their doc says they can't lift. Also there are some isolation rooms, like TB rooms, they don't go in, but otherwises it's work as usual.
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No. 24
Old Nov 18, 2007, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by BHolliRNMS View Post
A coworker of mine has an uncle in the VA hospital. The nurses had to restrain him last nite, because he wouldn't leave his O2 on and his sats were really low. He also kept trying to get up..can't remember he can't walk. When his daughter arrived for a visit this am, he told her in that loud I can't hear anymore voice, "honey, they've tied down everything but my dick!"

Well, if he ends up getting a foley, that'll be next.
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No. 25
from JaredCNA
Old Nov 19, 2007, 09:32 AM

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A nurse once asked me to restrain a pt.

I received all the usual questions/statements a confused person will ask/say in this situation.
"Well, why do you have to do that?" (I just told them why.)
"I'm not trying to get out of bed." (After I go in there 10+ times to find them half-way in a standing position.)
"It's not for my safety." Etc, etc.

But I was really thrown off when this one elderly male patient continued his series of questions, to ask "Well, why? Do you think I will masturbate? I can't even find my ****."

LMAO!
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Old Nov 19, 2007, 03:30 PM

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No. 27
from jah4815
Old Dec 23, 2007, 10:57 AM

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We had this one lady come to the er with two of her kids and she told us that they had the croak! It took us a minute to figure out that she meant croup.
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No. 28
Old Jan 06, 2008, 09:01 PM

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Was doing a bath and a complete bed change on a male patient. I had him turned over to his side and had rolled up the old sheet under him and the rolled up new sheet next to that (the two rolls put together is what I call a big hump).
So I tell him "Ok sir can you roll over to your other side? You are going to roll over a big hump in the middle."
To which he replies "I'm used to rolling over big humps. Have you ever seen my wife?"
LMAO
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No. 29
Old Jan 07, 2008, 10:49 AM

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I had to restrain a little old man when I was unable to reorient him to the fact that I was not a burgler breaking in his house to steal his things, which he was prepared to fight to protect. He screamed for the police for awhile then got quiet. I went to check on him and found him w/ his face turned away from the door toward the sink area where the mirror was. He was seeing reflections and thought they were someone he knew. He kept asking the mirror to let him go that her girls had him all tied up. I tried again to orient him but he kept talking to the mirror. I asked him who he was talking to and, still looking at the mirror he said "you". I said "well, I'm over here". He looked over at me, then back at the mirror and said " well, you or her either one, somebody cut me loose!" I got so tickled I just had to walk away.
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