hotwaterbottle

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1. Doctor stole my stethoscope

   hotwaterbottle replied to ayejay09's topic in Relations

   Ruby Vee, it's very hard for me to understand how these doctors can just steal stethoscopes, especially from ppl who may make less money than they do. I was brought up to respect other people's personal property, and I still do. For example, if I b...

2. Brain Death/Support

   hotwaterbottle replied to scheeh73's topic in Critical

   I think the fact that this was due to an overdose is pertinent. I know when my junior high health class had a "junkie" (that's the word that was used back then) come in and talk to us about the dangers of drug abuse and I guess heroin in particular,...

3. When our older nurses die :(

   hotwaterbottle replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   I used to have a neighbor who was a retired nurse. She told me she'd been "on duty for 50 years". I remember it kind of amused me the way she called it "on duty". She was a real character: always had a cigarette hanging out of her mouth, and still...

4. Best quality care cannot be provided

   hotwaterbottle replied to uniqueguy34's topic in General Nursing

   My mother had a hospice nurse who used to come to her house once a week when my mother was dying. The nurse was young but had tried hospital work also. She said she would never, ever go back and was very happy doing the hospice work. Also, I've wor...

5. What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

   hotwaterbottle replied to fatrabbit's topic in General Nursing

   Interesting reading all the comments. I worked as a "nursing extern" one summer (1981) at a hospital down south while I was staying with my parents during break before senior year of nursing school. We wore a white dress (mine was above-the-knee; ...

6. Saw an angry clinical instructor...

   hotwaterbottle replied to Bortaz's topic in Relations

   I have to say I had a somewhat similar instructor many years ago. She dressed us down in private usually. Well, semi-private: an alcove where we drew up injectable meds under her supervision. I remember that every student was in tears when I saw ...

7. What do you think of fibromyalgia?

   hotwaterbottle replied to Emergent's topic in Stress 101

   Wow, Pavanneh, that sounds awful. I don't have fibromyalgia, but i have something else that most people think doesn't exist, so I know what it's like to have people think you're crazy.

8. What do you think of fibromyalgia?

   hotwaterbottle replied to Emergent's topic in Stress 101

   LTCNS, I don't blame you for being defensive, after obnoxious comments by Emergent and The Commuter.

9. Charting Disruptive Patient Behaviors: Are You Objective?

   hotwaterbottle replied to SHGR's topic in Ambulatory

   I have worked in inpatient locked psych units with children, adolescents, and adults, so having to deal with this sort of charting was a daily occurence at my jobs. One of my pet peeves was cowowrkers charting "Pt. was whiny", or better yet, "Pt. wa...