Stargazer

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1. Nurses, do you routinely do beds and baths?

   Stargazer replied to Rapheal's topic in General Nursing

   When I worked ICU, we had nurse techs who assisted with bed baths, but all nurses bathed their own pts. Since most of the pts were sedated/comatose/immobile, it took 2 people to do a bath, turn the pt...

2. sleeping staff

   Stargazer replied to night owl's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   ~sigh~ Apparently this needs to be stated yet again. I don't care what you do on an official break, whether that is a 15-minute break, a lunch break, or all your breaks for the shift combined into...

3. Does normal saline "expire"?

   Stargazer replied to MPHkatie's topic in General Nursing

   I understand the impulse though. We can return SOME expired supplies for credit, but a lot of items can't be returned and we just eat the cost. It kills me to throw away perfectly good IV solution and...

4. Does normal saline "expire"?

   Stargazer replied to MPHkatie's topic in General Nursing

   I know that Doctors Without Borders won't take expired medical supplies as donations, so I suspect there are legitimate reasons for the product

5. Does normal saline "expire"?

   Stargazer replied to MPHkatie's topic in General Nursing

   I know that our expired endotracheal tubes have to be replaced, even though they're just inactive latex or similar. When I asked our supplier (a trusted colleague for 13 years, not a sleazy company...

6. why do some nurses forget that they were once students?

   Stargazer replied to geleesa's topic in General Students

   Listen to Lausana, for she is as wise as she is

7. Bump On Penis

   Stargazer replied to JessyKC27's topic in General Nursing

   Don't feel bad, Tracy. The more posts there are on this thread, the more it's making me laugh. Why yes, I am going to hell, thanks for

8. Faking It

   Stargazer replied to l.rae's topic in General Nursing

   W. T. F.????? The doc's never heard of stool

9. Faking It

   Stargazer replied to l.rae's topic in General Nursing

10. Nurses rat on nurses

    Stargazer replied to rscarlatti's topic in General Nursing

    As far as firefighters and cops never reporting each other, that's just not true either. My brother, a paramedic, once had to report a colleague when they discovered, cleaning the rig after a call,...

11. Nursing and Religion

    Stargazer replied to Rootbear76's topic in General Nursing

    Good point, Deb. Many religions try to make sense of, or take comfort in death by speculating that there is some form of afterlife, whether you call it Nirvana or Heaven or something else. For those...

12. Nursing and Religion

    Stargazer replied to Rootbear76's topic in General Nursing

    After working with approximately 100 different nurses over a 12-year period dealing with life-and death situations daily in critical care units, I can honestly say the subject of religion came up...

13. how do you keep a nursing cap on?

    Stargazer replied to PowerPuffGirl's topic in General Nursing

14. The most pee ever.....

    Stargazer replied to KC CHICK's topic in General Nursing

    6800 cc's? I'm impressed. And having sympathy pains. Oy. My biggest "yield" was 3800 cc's--from a guy who hadn't peed in 5 days. He was so distended, I couldn't pass a cath for love nor money, and...

15. Patients who refuse to cooperate with medical/nursing treatment....

    Stargazer replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, that made me laugh out loud, but I actually think the opposite. Life must be relatively easy when you're too damn dumb to even know how dumb you are. And ERNurse, the complete version of that...