Bluewombat

Bluewombat has 25 years experience and specializes in Oncology.

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1. Nurse Phobias?

   Bluewombat replied to pattycakeRN's topic in General Nursing

   I have a phobia,I dread that when you are looking after a really sick patient and someone sends red and white flowers to them, it's bad luck for that patient,(the red and white refer to blood and bandages) The person will often get worse or even di...

2. Florence Nightengale Pledge.

   Bluewombat replied to Diary/Dairy's topic in General Nursing

   Do you think we should have said that pledge on our first day of training????Because we caused havoc....and probably some of us still do.......lol

3. Have you ever heard of this? UGH!!!!

   Bluewombat replied to Heloisea3's topic in General Nursing

   My girlfriend had post partum pyschosis. When she had given birth to her third child they actually froze her placenta and gave her "tablets" of her placenta. The school of thought was that the placenta held hormones that she lacked , which may have c...

4. Do nurses support physician assisted suicide?

   Bluewombat replied to NightOwl0624's topic in General Nursing

   It's amazing, we have seen so many changes over the years with the amount of resources that become available to assist our patients with death with dignity. I work in an oncology unit, have done for the last 14 years. I've been a nurse for nearly 25y...

5. Say What??????!!!!!!!!!!

   Bluewombat replied to gt4everpn's topic in Relations

   This was actually said by a co worker when giving an IM injection to a bilateral below knee amputee to take his mind off the injection.. " now just wriggle your toes" I looked at her in disbelief, and quickly said very quietly to her, "he can't h...

6. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

   Bluewombat replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

   Well it wasn't so much what she did but what she said. We were giving this man an IMI of morphine for his pain post operatively. We had him on his side did all the correct checking and then this college proceded to give the injection. The old line ca...

7. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

   Bluewombat replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

   I remember one of our orderlies who was young and would always come into work after a huge night out hung over....Well this particular morning after the night before was no exception....One of our nurses knew this and set him up a beauty!!! the nurse...

8. Stupid Things that get you kicked out of nursing school

   Bluewombat replied to IvoryLena's topic in General Students

   gees that's rough ...but Ican tell you a story of a collegue who got kicked out because he did a stupid thing...and was he pretending to be a corpse.... I kid you not! He got all the way to the morgue and thought he'd best hop off the slab before th...

9. What's your story? Why did you take up nursing?

   Bluewombat replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

   When I was 3 years old my twin brother pushed me off the bed and I cut my head open. I had to go to the local Emergency department to get some stitches. Well I can still remmeber the Doctor as if he was standing in front of me now He was gorgeous....