Goofball

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1. Visiting Hours

   Goofball replied to redwolf's topic in MICU, SICU

   Our ICU is totally open, 24 hours a day. Cots can go in the big rooms, not the small rooms, but family member can spend a night in a chair if they want to. We just took away the intercoms, no calling...

2. Tired of people commenting on my salary

   Goofball replied to holdensjane's topic in General Nursing

   How about, "Hey, the more you make, the more they take! (as in taxes)" Or sometimes I just say, "I never discuss my salary" and cut the subject off abruptly. If they persist, I may say, "It's none...

3. propofol infusion syndrome

   Goofball replied to john 1947's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

   Never heard of it; but I have noted that if a pt. is becoming bradycardic, and they are on high-dose propofol, cutting the propofol down will quickly reverse the

4. Open Visiting Hours in ICU...Yes or No?

   Goofball replied to goldenbobcat's topic in MICU, SICU

   We are not allowed to restrict visitors at any time from being in the rooms in our ICU, except maybe for cleaning up stool and even then sometimes they refuse to leave. Most refuse to even use the...

5. Scrub tops that don't shrink to your armpits; anyone know of any?

   Goofball replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   There's a place called Sassy Scrubs online that will let you pick out the material, and then sew up a scrub top for you. Their sizes run quite large. I usually wear S, so I ordered Xs, and it was...

6. Scrub tops that don't shrink to your armpits; anyone know of any?

   Goofball replied to NICU_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   METOO! I'm a scrubaholic, because I'm a fabric-aholic too. I'm always on the search for really unique material that calls out and grabs me. OCD's run rampant in nurses, and this is mine. First I...

7. Funny Names for Nurses

   Goofball replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

   We had a patient named Larry

8. What Freaks You Out?

   Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

   little asian man found down at home, E.R. reported suctioning maggots out of nose and NGTube and Et Tube. I was almost sick myself seeing it; until his family came in and reported he had eaten a huge...

9. Floating of ICU RNs

   Goofball replied to braveheart's topic in MICU, SICU

   Our Per Diem nurses have that option, to refuse to go to certain floors. If we accept them to come and work in the unit for 12 hours, then at 3PM we end up overstaffed - and one of the 8-hour floors...

10. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I got a young R/O MI pt from ER end-shift yesterday. I was rummy from lack of sleep over the past 5 days. I kept having to move his hands from his chest -he kept tangling his EKg leads in his fingers...

11. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Must have been good eatin's up there! But what doe "NH"

12. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I confess I have eaten it myself when desperate and no time for a lunch break, and the patient was made NPO and couldn't have it. But it does look kind of like something that came from a wound that...

13. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I think what's kind of freaky about a deceased pt. is the way their blood settles. When you turn them to push the morgue bag under them, it's all

14. Funny Names for Nurses

    Goofball replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    Today one of our pulmonologists introduced a new MD just hired into their group. He said, "Meet Dr. Azfal." Well, you know what I thought I heard. I had to look at the guy's name on his coat to see...

15. Funny Names for Nurses

    Goofball replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    We have an intensivist/pulmonologist by the name of Dr. Shragg. The other day, one of the new RNs in E.R. heard his name incorrectly, and was having the operator page him overhead as Dr. Shrekk. We...