Ethel

Ethel

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  1. Why a C-Section?

    in the hospital where i work c-sections account for about 80% of deliveries due to the large amount of patients who are hiv pos. they unofficial statistics in some antenatal clinics are as high as 40-60% of antenatal mothers tested are hiv pos. a lot...
  2. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    I had a friend who was a student and he worked on the geriatric ward. He used to take great pleasure in "helping" the patients eat their sweets etc. until one day........... one of the patients had what appeared to be chocolate clusters on his bedsid...
  3. :uhoh21: at 17 nearly 18 all I wanted to do was work for the Prison Dept. but they would not have me until I was 18 and that would take 3months in my family you don't stay at home after completing school and not work so my Mom suggested that I try nu...
  4. In my time in the OR I have seen a condom been removed from the bladder. Also had to remove an olive oil bottle from the rectum and a Coke litre bottle from the vagina (pt was told it was an effective method of contraception???????)
  5. Wearing scrubs in public...

    :uhoh21: Why would anyone want to wear scrubs other then in areas where they are prescribed uniform???? They are comfortable but oh so ugly and shapeless:uhoh3:. I don't know if your scrubs are different to ours, but our issued scrubs have no shape a...
  6. comfy shoes

    Green Cross shoes are the most comfortable I have ever worn and they come in so many different styles that even the most conservative boss would be happy and those of us who enjoy things a little more stylish but still proffesional can also find some...
  7. comfy shoes

    I went to the z-coil website and I can't believe that anyone would want to wear shoes like that on duty. :uhoh21: They are truely do not look like something my boss would allow me to wear at work. I think they are better suited to kids and teenagers...
  8. Injections- still pull back?

    :uhoh21: I was once on the receiving end of an IM injection which the person forgot to pull back. I was thus given the whole 100mg of Pethidine ivi which resulted in me having a respiratory arrest and nearly dying. So I am truely sold on the idea of ...
  9. Shocked and angry. Need new job.

    Well that refers then to at least 1/4 adult patients in our hospital and there is no special unit for them. They are nursed in our normal med\surg wards.
  10. Shocked and angry. Need new job.

    What are Bariatric patients I have never heard of the term. Maybe in South Africa we call them something else.????
  11. What does your screenname mean?

    Mine comes from a certain aneasthetist who calls all the females patients and staff Ethel if he can't remember your name. So is you don't know mine I also respond to names like Susan, Mavis, Nurse or Sister sometimes even Dear but that is not one of ...
  12. Nurses wearing white

    I really enjoyed wearing my white uniform when I worked on the wards. In our hospital the uniform issued is so impractical apart from the scrubs worn in OT and ER, but as we don't pay for our uniform and get new unifarm every 2 years I am not complai...
  13. My story happened on my first day. The Rn taking me on a round was busy explaining how you get a nasogastric tube to drain by milking it ever tried..... with that the patient said she was not feeling well and vomited all over my beautiful white unifo...
  14. Night Nurses-Pts think we sleep?

    In some hospitals I know the staff write up observations etc. at 19h00 at night and then at about 22h00 they all go to sleep. As my relatives have been is such hospitals. Dr in certain State hospitals go and do their own IV antibiotics at night as th...
  15. Do I LOOK Like A Nurse To You?

    Dear Haunted It is ok if people don't think you look like a nurse out of uniform but when the hospital you work for gives you a uniform that makes you look like the office staff then all your patients think you are the ward clerk. or ?