Bat Lady

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  1. Pregnancy and Nursing School

    I went through an ADN program which included a lot of single moms and not a few who were married with kids. We all had our problems with sitters, illnesses, and everything that goes along with having kids. However, the program was such that we'd all ...
  2. ^^^THIS^^^^ was a biggie in the area where I worked at one time. It was a smallish city with 2 hospitals. I worked in the smaller (private) now where I floated between ICU and ER. We fixed this problem. sort of, by posting a pic of the doc on duty on...
  3. Would You Stop to Provide Medical Care?

    I have, several times. When I was in home health I always had my bag and supplies in the car. I remember stopping at one scene after it happened...one of our aides flagged me down. The police weren't there yet. A car had gone off the road and down a ...
  4. Denying Death As A Society

    Wow. I have been on so many sides of this in my career. I've had two nursing home patients in different hospitals who were intubated against their wishes, one because the EMS in that community *routinely* intubated all the "found down" patients they ...
  5. 0200 BP's - Dealing with Tired Rude Doctors

    EXACTLY. Most of the hospitals I worked in (and that's been more than several, since I did travel nursing) had a standing order sheet that the doctors used, or the doctors themselves had standing order sheets. You went by those. It was generally a st...
  6. My Burnout Story

    This might be one reason for a phenomenon I saw quite a bit in the 90s....the movement back and forth from ICU to home health. Many ICU nurses (not all, by any means, for reasons which I will mention a bit later) in my area took a year or two off fro...
  7. Dress Codes for School

    My daughter went to a Catholic high school. When she started we bought 2 skirts, one in each style. They were also allowed to wear khaki or navy pants. They wore button-down shirts in blue, white, or yellow; we bought most of those thrift stores. The...
  8. Disturbing things that I heard Dr.s say in the Labor room

    All of these comments, and more, are exactly why I left neonatal. I had to attend any birth that was considered "risky" or any C-section, and I heard a lot of these type comments from the docs. I also was back and forth from L&D with the nurses f...
  9. What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

    One of my college professors was William A. Williams, and a popular TV announcer where I lived for many years was Bill (one assumes also William) Williams. When I worked neonatal, we had a baby girl come through named Chivas Aspen. Someone joked that...
  10. I worked in a small town hospital in Tennessee. They had the sheriff's department and local police pick up nurses who lived in the city and county. If you lived in another county, as I did, and couldn't get in, which I couldn't once, then so be it. T...
  11. Where in the US do they need RNs really bad?

    I traveled off and on for 3 years and loved it. Even though I traveled mostly in compact states and took company-paid housing, the pay was good and I really enjoyed it. You *can* talk to companies about taking an assignment within your home area, eit...
  12. Being forced to stay at work. (West Virginia)

    And did you miss the part where she said she lives 5 minutes from the hospital and could WALK to work if necessary? I don't know if you read the papers but there are plenty of us who walked farther than that to work in this snow......and in lots of o...
  13. Where in the US do they need RNs really bad?

    East Tennessee/SW Virginia not too bad, BUT stay away from Wellmont in Kingsport TN and Johnson City Medical Center, TN. They treat their staff people really badly and tend to play them against a large number of travelers. Bristol Memorial, on the ot...
  14. What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

    When I worked in the nursery we had a girl baby who was given the name "Chivas Aspen". It provoked many snickers as to how/where she might have been conceived. We also had sisters born about 8 months apart who were called "Castle" and "Camry". So the...
  15. What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

    "Melina" (pronounced the same) is a Greek name that means "honey". If you are old enough you might remember the actress Melina Mercouri. (And incidentally, "Melissa" means "honeybee".)