14togo

14togo has 20 years experience and specializes in ortho, urology, neurosurgery, plastics.

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1. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

   14togo replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Relations

   The trouble with gene pools is there are not enough lifeguards.

2. Funny things lay-people say...

   14togo replied to EMSnut45's topic in General Nursing

   Great thread. Some of the staff members should gather and collate the anecdotes and write a book. I have heard numerous "malapropisms" over the years. One cute one that comes to mind: A student nurse was sharing a popsicle with one of the elderl...

3. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   14togo replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   Whist browsing through the site I came upon this thread for the first time. I have a "ghost" story I would like to share although it is not particularly scary. I worked in a veteran's hospital in Australia in the mid '90s. It had been built in 1942 t...

4. New Grads Today v. New Grads From Years Ago

   14togo replied to sj73201's topic in New Nurse

   hi there. i think that saying that every new grad struggled, be they of today's generation or that of years gone by (pick a number), is not a misperception. i certainly did, as did most of those i graduated with. we were new, on our own, no instructo...

5. What did you struggle with most in nursing school?

   14togo replied to mrgaylordfocker's topic in General Students

   I would suggest Phathophysiology, Pharmacy and somehow learn aspects of critical thinking. My nursing career has been entirely in acute care and I firmly believe that if you as a nurse do not understand what is going on at the cellular level in the d...

6. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

   14togo replied to sethmctenn's topic in Humor

   Whien I was nursing in Australia, there was a child psychologist named......Dr. Dumbel

7. What does your username mean?

   14togo replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Humor

   When I changed my used name I tried to be creative, but alas, there was no epiphany forhtcoming. I said to myself I was getting too old to be doing this stuff. My (new) user name reflected at that time I only had 14 months to go until retirement (now...

8. A Christmas to Remember

   14togo replied to orthonurse55's topic in General Nursing

   From an old Persian work of times past "I cried because I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet" Merry Christmas and all that to all who chose to read these lines.

9. What are some questionable/old-fashioned nursing interventions?

   14togo replied to DarkestSamus's topic in General Nursing

   Ostensibly leaving the air in not only clears the needle allowing the full dose to be delivered but to a degree it will also force the fluid into the tissue a bit more. The effect of this is when the needle is withdrawn, the fluid will not leak out t...

10. How does BON handle + marijuana screens from nurses in states that have legalized it?

    14togo replied to Neveranurseagain's topic in General Nursing

    FYI. ingestion of poppy seed bagels/cakes the like DOES reult in a positve tox screen for opiates. And...yes second hand smoke from Cannabis will register on the tox screen. Happy Thanksgiving

11. Patients and the race card

    14togo replied to CanadaEh's topic in Relations

    Welcome to reality kiddo. Don't internalize the negativity you perceive here. Racism is alive and doing well (unfortunately) and will continue to do so for the forseeable future. It exists in patients of all backgrounds. It exists in Doctors of all b...

12. A time to reform nursing education?

    14togo replied to nyteshade's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely! Not to mention other little goodies like the "I'm OK, you're OK, I feel your pain can we talk?" courses. Therapeutic communication is necessary but by the 3rd course of it, it has lost some of its...whatever it had in the first place (whi...

13. A time to reform nursing education?

    14togo replied to nyteshade's topic in General Nursing

    Livetolearn You are absolutely correct. The Staff Development Education nurses I work with are all part time practitioners in addition to their SDE duties. It helps them keep current with their clinical skills. The comment from Fiona59 is while broad...

14. Is anatomy one of the toughest courses for nursing?

    14togo replied to Toots71506's topic in Pre-Nursing

    It has been interesting reading the various submissions, coming as they are from the broad spectrum of nursing. If I may suggest one exercise, if you will, that is very apropos to the learning of A & P, is to attend a post-mortem. I am not famili...

15. Is anatomy one of the toughest courses for nursing?

    14togo replied to Toots71506's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Being a bit of an old fart, and having travelled several discipline paths in my nursing journey, it has been my observation (and one of my most ardent beliefs) that the better you know what is happening at the anatomical (read cellular) level, the be...