Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

[Pepper The Cat]

So, I really need a fun thread right now. We've done similar things before and it's always fun.

so, things Crusty Old Bats(COB) remember that new nurses today will not.

1. The clunk your uniform makes when you drop it in the laundry hamper and you realize you came home with the narcotic keys.

2. The splat the over full paper chart makes when you drop it on the floor. Papers everywhere. 15 mins getting everything back together.

3. The smell of the smoking lounge .

4. Nurse and Docs smoking at the Nsg Station.

5. Trying to match the colour of the urine in the test tube to determine the sugar level.

+1? +2? Which one?

OK my fellow COBs. Jump in!

[poppycat, ADN, BSN]

My cap looked like a Big Mac box!

[Lisacar130]

Hi Poppycat... I just noticed your PM now but it won't let me reply back to you as your message box is too full. Without giving details as what your message was about, yes there is one in Barrington that I go to and another one that's trying to start in Bolingbrook. Try to let me know if you are interested.

[poppycat, ADN, BSN]

Hi Poppycat... I just noticed your PM now but it won't let me reply back to you as your message box is too full. Without giving details as what your message was about, yes there is one in Barrington that I go to and another one that's trying to start in Bolingbrook. Try to let me know if you are interested.

Thanks. I cleaned out my messages so you can reply. Barrington is almost 2 hours away from me but Bolingbrook isn't far.

[Davey Do]

Susie2310 said:

being taught to check for Homan's sign in nursing school and doing this in clinicals

OOPS! Posted in wrong thread!

Oh well.

[Davey Do]

Susie2310 said:

being taught to check for Homan's sign in nursing school and doing this in clinicals

I posted this in the Original "Only Crusty Old Bats will Remember..."

But this cartoon is "brought to you in living color"!

Dang! I posted in the wrong thread again!

That's it!

I'm out of here!

[Axgrinder]

Great Scott!!!

{Clap, clap, clap ... Applause ...}

[Axgrinder]

Remember patient massage was ordered on the 3pm-11pm shift?

(One day I was running my tail off when I I had a very old man put on his call light to ask me what time was his massage scheduled for - I wanted to tell him after mine!).

[Davey Do]

Axgrinder said:

{Clap, clap, clap ... Applause ...}

[Axgrinder]

Bravo! Encore!!!

{Now I have music from The Time Warp, AND Earache My Eye on repeat in my mind!}

[Axgrinder]

'Member these bad boys???

(I bet I still have a couple somewhere ...)

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[Medicarenurse1]

Evening shift gave backrubs to all with one bottle of lotion, not a glove in sight.

Taping hip to a full side rail, with buttocks exposed to the door so that the heat lamp could be on the sacral decub for twenty minutes and leave the door open so I don't forget about the heat lamp.

Bedsores before "stages" and debriding without a doctor's order.

[Megan1977, MSN, EdD, RN]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned glass IV bottles.

Having to adjust IV flow rates using a roller clamp & your watch.

Oh yes- I remember this so well!!!