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  1. had a pt once ask me for his "peanut butter balls" told me he gets it every nite. I could not figure out what he was talking about until i read his med list..... Phenobarbitol!!
  2. I agree with everyone here. We all know we should get paid much more for what we do, and the better job you do the better raise you should get. Thats how we separate apples from oranges, is it not? As far as unions go, I hope more facilities do not g...
  3. i shouldnt have laughed

    I had a patient who was experiencing some COPD exacerbation after a long ETOH binge, who I was dragging down to his room while he was extremely dyspneic and his lungs began to get junky and he could not ough up the secretions. I was hurrying to get a...
  4. nursing superstitutions.....any truth in???

    I never ask a patient "are you okay or "are you feeling all right today?" I tell them they are safe and I seem to have lots of good outcomes.
  5. I too never heard of any Sharon STone good deed's. However, this doesn't surprise me. The media has held movie stars and athletes to be hero's and humanitarians.It doesn't take much effort to give to charity(especially if you make millions). Unfortun...
  6. Just Go Pee!

    Ok in my opinion, we nurses do not have a problem with time management, or put urinating low on the priority list. We simply tell ourselves, ok I have to go pee and then we get distracted and forget for that moment, until we have to pee so bad that w...
  7. What Freaks You Out?

    Well I thought I had an iron stomach until I took car of a pt with gangree. I will never forget that smell! But that wasn't the worst of it. I was placing 2x2's in between his rotiing toes, when one of them fell off in my hand!!! I was so grossed out...
  8. What was most embarrassing moment as a nurse?

    While I was a student nurse a patient who was in real distress began to code. This particular hosp had intercom phones in each room if you needed to call a code. It required you to push116 andto call "CODE BLUE- ROOM..." With my instuctorand several ...
  9. Oramar, I wish I new a definte answer for you. One thing I can think of is Malabsorption syndrome. It is a syndrome that causes an intolerance to gluten(found in many breads) and/or caused by pancreatic insufficiency. Beause the gallbladder increases...
  10. Is a yr of med surg really necessary?

    My very first job when i became an RN was on cardiopulmonary Stepdown. I ran aroung that unit making sure everyone was breathing and running to every "DING" on the monitor so much that I didn't get a chance to focus on learning. I now work in a sub-a...
  11. Prescription pain meds and their abuse by pt's.

    I personally agree with the fact that patients are allowed, and taught to abuse pain meds. However, pain is so subjective that it is not our job as health care professionals, to decide if a patient is abusing a drug, or if they are truly in need of ...