your nursing career, THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!

nursedawn67, LPN · Apr 8, 2002

hapeewendy, I thought those were pretty good. :) I think mine would be more like a soap opera, such as "The depressed and the confused" ( I work in Long term care). :)

Agnus · Apr 8, 2002

you are too funny. I think your are VERY creative, so there.:chuckle

nursedawn67, LPN · Apr 8, 2002

With mine...I was thinking...that's the staff too!! LOL

Ted · Apr 9, 2002

Hapeewendy:

Very funny and very creative! :)

Right now, because I'm watching a cardiac monitor for three patients, my movie would be titled, "The Beat Goes On, and On, and On, and On. . ." The star of this movie would be everybody's heart-throb, Skip D. Beat.

O. K. this may not be funny, but my heart's in the right place . . . :)

Ted

micro, RN · Apr 9, 2002

hapeewendy,

"but I can give a d....... good needle".....that is the title for your movie.........hehehehhehehehehehe

xxxxoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxo and toooooooo' funny.....

your list is great.......luv the bedpan club.........

here's a couple stabs at mine.....

1) nurse don't just pass tylenol anymore???????

2) all strong, able minded and good backs apply here....

titles are slow to come this day.......so lets see who would play me.............

winona rider..........yeah that's it.........hehehehehehe

too funny.....nice to see you threading happeewendy.........

rnoflabor2000 · Apr 9, 2002

Mine would be "Deliverance" the true story. But delivering babies and the actual movie have nothing at all in common. Thank goodness. Or Beauty and the Beast. A story of one women being induced for labor.

zumalong · Apr 9, 2002

Oh my, if I win the lottery I will help produce all these great movies (i feel an oscar here!!)

Now I am a urological and neurological nurse when I am not teaching, so I feel that these titles can fit several categories

Halloweeny's (starring Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas, Sean Connery- premise: A group of aging heros go after their urologist because he did not do nerve sparing surgery for their prostate disease)

Scream :eek: Starring Jodie Foster as the hapless patient in a demented proctologists office. The part of the doctor will be played by Anthony Hopkins. (you won't want to sit on the toilet after this one)

Spry kids. A group of elderly nursing home residents discover their DON is actually a double agent for the organization known only as H>M>O> The geriatric crew heads on a crazy adventure to recover the stolen silacone that was to be used for prothestics for a group of residents who were sick of pureed meats. The motorized wheelchair scene is one to be treasured over and over. :roll

OBNURSEHEATHER · Apr 10, 2002

Originally posted by zumalong

Halloweeny's (starring Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas, Sean Connery- premise: A group of aging heros go after their urologist because he did not do nerve sparing surgery for their prostate disease)

:roll :chuckle :roll :chuckle :roll You ARE good!

Heather

rnoflabor2000 · Apr 10, 2002

Zumalong wins with that one, for sure.

Agnus · Apr 10, 2002

Yea, my vote is for zumalong too

Cascadians · Apr 10, 2002

Up $#!+ Creek

played by overworked unknowns

Get this, folks: we just had a job where we had to take a hip surgery Alz female pt out of a SNF to "rehab" at home to qualify for placement in AFC, right after bringing home from hospital her hubby with broken ribs, blood transfusions, 22 stitches from fall, worsening multiple myeloma, etc.

Dtr goes in, for 2 weeks her mother is repeatedly found by dtr to be laying on back covered in diarrhea, no Attends even, just an undy pad. Despite dtr's concerns, nothing done. New and bad bedsores on heels and hip and buttocks, incision becomes infected. We go in to find pt laying on back swimming in yellowish brown mess. Takes 1 1/2 hours to clean her up because as soon as clean and in fresh Attends, whoooosh fill 'em up. Staff hadn't done much PT on her, very stiff, in pain. Constant diarrhea, that certain yellowish outline stain and odor, etc, plus staff on floor casually mentions 5 other pts of 19 have C-Diff. Oh great. Wife supposed to come home to neutropenic Multiple Myeloma pt who has been hospitalized so many times the State says one more time and Protective Services is going to take over.

So we request a lab test for C-Diff before bringing lady home to immunodifficient cancer husband.

Go back 3 days later to get lady pt, ask what lab result is, staff says: "Oh, we cancelled the lab test because we were trying to cover up some medication errors." They claimed they gave her 2 Senokot a day for 2 weeks without noticing massive amounts of diarrhea even after dtr complaints.

Meanwhile AFC refusing to take pts without lab results ...

No Wound Care RN ordered for home visits, no proper or adequate supplies, no equipment, even after 2 weeks of requests, calls, f/u, lists, explaining, etc.

Tons of visitors, bringing dogs in, multiple myeloma pt has kidney failure and what looks like rash, itching, medication reaction? open sores all over body which he scratches until soaked with blood -- none of this addressed or understood.

Aaaaarrrrrggghhhhh -- we bailed. Too risky. Home care can be really scary when there's no nursing focus or basic attention to cleanliness, due procedures, etc. We left them with plenty of advance notice, several family members in the house and the AFC operator in there too checking them out.

Did you say Wal-Mart is hiring?