Lady_Leijing

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  1. Iffy Patient Education on Hypertension

    Lady_Leijing posted a topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately, the details of this are a little vague because I wasn't there and I am relaying this information second hand. My husband recently had a health screening and fasting labs with an...

  2. Iffy Patient Education on Hypertension

    Lady_Leijing replied to Lady_Leijing's topic in General Nursing

    I figured that might be that case as well. I considered putting nurse in quotation marks when originally writing

  3. Malicious "pimping" in nursing / nurse practitioner school?

    Lady_Leijing replied to RomaniGypsy's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, that kind of pimping... Wouldn't have realized that was an actual term, except ZDogg MD talked about it a while back ;-) I had a clinical instructor that was like that. Every week, she would catch...

  4. Patients & Pet Peeves

    Lady_Leijing replied to SisterofMary's topic in General Nursing

    I had the husband of a patient that took a shower in the patient bathroom, which wasn't a huge deal for the postpartum unit I worked on at the time. The problem was that he came out wearing only the...

  5. I am tiny and need help finding scrubs that will actually fit!

    Lady_Leijing replied to kaimkaim's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I didn't realize that scrubs came in XXS! I've been buying XS pants with drawstrings (no elastic bands) and hemming them myself for 4 years. I really don't worry about the legs of my pants being loose...

  6. Crap! Am I a crusty old bat nurse?? Carrying pens...

    Lady_Leijing replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Not a millennial thing. I'm considered a millennial, an at work I always have a pen or two on me and a note pad in my pocket. Then again we're not supposed to have phones out at

  7. Your most annoying, obnoxious family member stories

    Lady_Leijing replied to JDZ344's topic in Nursing Humor

    I had the mom of one of my NICU patients come to room-in. She was informed to bring anything she may need for the night because she's be the one feeding and caring for her baby; we're just there to...

  8. Will marijuana ever be okay in nursing?

    Lady_Leijing replied to Bakingismylife's topic in General Nursing

    There is a synthetic cannaboid called Marinol that is a pearl-sized gel cap. When I worked Med-Surg, we occasionally had patients on

  9. What do you do with your wedding ring?

    Lady_Leijing replied to Nephron44's topic in General Nursing

    I work in the NICU, so rings are completely out for me. The day I ended up wearing mine to work by accident, I clipped it to my name

  10. Bumped from NICU?

    Lady_Leijing posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I was a med-surg nurse for 2 years prior to starting in NICU. They trained me for 8 weeks before turning me loose on my own (prior to me the orientation classes, I might add). When a situation arose...

  11. Bumped from NICU?

    Lady_Leijing replied to Lady_Leijing's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Just an update if anyone is still following this thread: It became an increasingly hostile work environment. On the Women & Newborn unit, I thought I was doing really well, but some of the day...

  12. The Patient's "Guests"

    Lady_Leijing replied to rnsheri's topic in Nursing Humor

    When I worked on a surgical unit, I would write out "nothing to eat or drink" or "Ice only". Didn't stop the guy with pancreatitis from trying to get people to bring him food. He and I had a good...

  13. March 2018 Caption Contest - Select $100 Winner!

    Lady_Leijing replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    "So, what's the proper dose of Zofran for a

  14. Most Cringeworthy Thing You Did in Nursing School

    Lady_Leijing replied to missnursingstudent19's topic in Nursing Humor

    Bugya90, I did something similar, except I didn't know I was dehydrated. I showed up for clinical, and me and 1 of the other nursing students went with a doctor to observe a rectal exam/disimpaction....

  15. sweetease

    Lady_Leijing replied to winterblue's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    This!! 1000 times THIS!! It drives me batty when other nurses give MY patients sucrose because the baby was fussy. I had one night (that I know of) where my NAS scores were undermined because I...

  16. Drama...drama....drama....

    Lady_Leijing replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    I worked on a unit where there were a lot of tattle-tells and a couple of bullies. If you didn't do things the way they did, they would find some reason to write the manager about you; I made the...

  17. Haunted Hospital??

    Lady_Leijing replied to Breathing16's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    The nursing school I went to had an old iron lung in the basement storage. One of the professors claimed to hear it cycling at night.... On a lighter and more personal note, I have seen several...

  18. Am I too small to be a nurse?

    Lady_Leijing replied to Sbhayes09's topic in General Nursing

    As a nurse that's 5 foot tall and 98 lbs, I can tell you that if you can handle the lifting of a cna, you can handle being a nurse. I've done both. Sometimes I need a step stool to reach things, or I...

  19. What is the funniest thing a doctor has said to you?

    Lady_Leijing replied to jodispamodi's topic in Nursing Humor

    We had a patient that swallowed his glass eye. The surgeon that retrieved said eye with a scope set a picture from the scope down next to me on the desk and commented "does this stomach look...

  20. Flu Shot or Mask?

    Lady_Leijing replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I was thinking the same thing! My mom works in a NICU and rarely floats outside the unit because she is part of the transport team. She is also allergic--like anaphylactic allergic--to the flu shot....

  21. What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

    Lady_Leijing replied to nirvana1's topic in Nursing Humor

    I had a couple recently that made me wonder: Savvie Reign and

  22. religion and interviews

    Lady_Leijing replied to CticuRN95's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    As a deeply religious Christian and a door nurse, I can sympathize with what you're going through. I have often worked weekends to work around my home life and or school schedule, but I've always...

  23. What does your username mean?

    Lady_Leijing replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Nursing Humor

    Mine is a slightly more "grown up" take on my other internet handle Leijinga. Both are variants of the name of one of my oldest short story characters: Leijing

  24. Wacky Nursing Dreams

    Lady_Leijing replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nursing Humor

    I once dreamed that I had a ward of 20 patients and I was the only nurse on the floor. All the beds were in one huge room with curtains between them, and all the patients' call lights were going off....

  25. Why do We eat our young?

    Lady_Leijing replied to nellie272003's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Personally, the only nurse bully I've encountered was actually a relatively new nurse. She'd been a nurse for less than 5 years and had been a charge nurse for less than a year. Rather than helping...