mt.serinity

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1. Share Your Saying

   mt.serinity replied to angelique777's topic in Humor

   as an ER nurse, when dealing with many of my patients... axon... (long pause) ...dendrite

2. The Dumber than Dumb Prize... any nominations?

   mt.serinity replied to hosa32726's topic in Humor

   the child was diagnosed with an upper resp infection because "shallow gene pool" wasn't on the list of options...

3. The Dumber than Dumb Prize... any nominations?

   mt.serinity replied to hosa32726's topic in Humor

   As a new nurse, (a few years ago) I had to discharge a patient who lost the argument with the ER doctor over more pain meds. This patient was 6' 2" 225 pounds and a handsome crossdresser. I walked into his (or her) room and said "Okay, Michael, here ...

4. The Dumber than Dumb Prize... any nominations?

   mt.serinity replied to hosa32726's topic in Humor

   working night shift outside New Orleans just after 9/11 - (remember the anthrax situation) - A mother brought a 9 yr old boy to the ER about 2:00am with a complaint of "He just don't feel right". I finally was able to get to them for a detailed triag...

5. You Know You're a Nurse When...

   mt.serinity replied to Brownms46's topic in Humor

   you know you are a nurse when you get home from a long shift "saving lives in the ER" and feel like the lifeguard at the shallow end of the gene pool...

6. Do you like day or night shift better and why?

   mt.serinity replied to CrystalClear75's topic in General Nursing

   I work nights - 7 on and 7 off. This way when I am off, my wife and I can do whatever we want, such as travel. Additionally, working all my shifts in a row keeps me from needing to turn myself on and off of day shift hours when the rest of the world ...

7. BON vent

   mt.serinity replied to edchunt's topic in General Nursing

   So sorry to hear I am not the only one with frustrations when it comes to the BON. All I can say is continue to own your integrety. The BON will do whatever it wants when it wants and with absolutely no oversight. God help us all.

8. anyone here NOT take an NCLEX review class and still passed? how did you do it?

   mt.serinity replied to Liz21's topic in General Nursing

   Graduated in '97. Realized nursing school had 2 goals for me: 2) to make a minimally competent nurse when I hit the floor, and most importantly 1) to pass the NCLEX. If students did not pass boards, the school is out of business. I have never been...