Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

Nurses General Nursing

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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!

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.

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Specializes in pediatrics; PICU; NICU.
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.

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
Susie2310 said:
being taught to check for Homan's sign in nursing school and doing this in clinicals

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OOPS! Posted in wrong thread!

Oh well.

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
Susie2310 said:
being taught to check for Homan's sign in nursing school and doing this in clinicals

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

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

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Dang! I posted in the wrong thread again!

That's it!

I'm out of here!

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Specializes in Adult MICU/SICU.

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Great Scott!!!

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

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Specializes in Adult MICU/SICU.

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!). :bored:

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
Axgrinder said:
{Clap, clap, clap ... Applause ...}

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Bravo! Encore!!!

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

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'Member these bad boys???

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

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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.

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Specializes in Nursing Education, Public Health, Medical Policy.
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!!!

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Specializes in Nursing Education, Public Health, Medical Policy.
Metal bedpans, urinals and emesis basins which were gathered up by the night shift and put in the bed pan hopper in the dirty utility room every day. I also remember burning my fingers more than once taking those things out so we could slip the sterilized ones into a paper cover, pile them on a utility cart and trundle them down the hall to the clean utility room or put them back into the bedside tables in the patient rooms.

Stock meds on every floor. The metal pill trays which had a hole for the pill cup and a slot for the med cards for that pass. It was sort your med cards pulled from the kardex before each scheduled pass by patient name, check them against the kardex, correct the cards if changes had occurred ( and grumble under my breath that the other shift didn't update the cards), go into the med room and pour the meds for each patient and line them up on the pill tray. Take said tray, put it with water, food if necessary, tongue blades and some paper towels and off down the hall to pass the meds. Yes we carried the tray into each room, put the pill cup into the patient hand, gave them some water and watch them take their meds. Repeat until complete. Then chart said meds on the MAR

Using this system I could pass po meds to 25 people in under 45 minutes & the whole prep for said 25 people took me maybe 10-15 minutes max. Using today's system....much slower especially if an automated dispensing system is used.

I agree- passing meds was much easier back in the day. I miss the Kardex

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