Joanm

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1. Have you ever been hit by a patient?

   Joanm replied to sWolfie's topic in General Nursing

   Many years ago a patient going into DT's tried to strangle me with his IV tubing. He had just had a cardiac revascularization procedure and forgot to mention that he had a drinking problem. Another time I was working in an ER when a young man, high...

2. Have you ever been hit by a patient?

   Joanm replied to sWolfie's topic in General Nursing

   Many years ago a patient going into DT's tried to strangle me with his IV tubing. He had just had a cardiac revascularization procedure and forgot to mention that he had a drinking problem. Another time I was working in an ER when a young man, high...

3. "Send my girl down here now"...(Please.....)

   Joanm replied to Jason-ACNP's topic in General Nursing

   I wonder where the public gets the idea that we are handmaidens. Did anyone see Jay Leno last night? One of his "jokes" was that he had seen on CNN that there was a nursing shortage. And we can't do without nurses, because without nurses there wo...