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Goofball

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  1. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure that's something absolutely lovely. What is

  2. Floating of ICU RNs

    Goofball replied to braveheart's topic in MICU, SICU

    We don't float our agency nurses if they were already scheduled to work ICU. Our traveler nurses don't float until they have been around for awhile, then they are added to the list for all of us...

  3. Hemodynamic leveling

    Goofball replied to mattcastens's topic in Cardiac

    I don't know about overkill, but I'm going to Target today and picking one up. Anything that makes the readings more accurate, and quicker, is good. We are treating, based on those readings. I also...

  4. Floating of ICU RNs

    Goofball replied to braveheart's topic in MICU, SICU

    Our policy just changed. Now the ICU nurses float only to Tele, Neuro Observation Unit, and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit. The 1st two arent' too bad, except you are the only RN in the NOU, with 8 crazy...

  5. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    My pt. today had HIV, PCp pneumonia, TB, Hep B & C, and was in DIC and on the vent, and spraying and leaking blood all over the place. They are also testing her for Hantavirus and Yersinia Pestis...

  6. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    This is one of the most bizarre posts I have ever read. How twisted. Please keep us up to date with what you find

  7. Hemodynamic leveling

    Goofball replied to mattcastens's topic in Cardiac

    We have a huge carpenter's level we get taught with during orientation. Then we never use it again. I bought a $1.29 mini-level at Home Depot and just tape it to the line; or just tape the transducer...

  8. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    How about those patients that the nurse before you, or the nursing asst., says the bath is all done. Then during your assessments, not only the B.O. and peri-smells assault you, but they have caked up...

  9. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Ohhhh, that is so disgusting and

  10. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Kids-r-Fun, I want to know just what does that specific chemo urine you were talking about smell like? I want to know if I smelled it before and don't realize

  11. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Perk, the tip about dealing with those nasty, food-encrusted, slimey false teeth is, Never ever look directly at them. Just keep them blurred slightly in a portion of your peripheral vision at all...

  12. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    TBone, nurses are one breed, but people who work in the Coroner's office are a whole 'nother. I have co-workers who did stints there while students, and the stories are not your usual morbidly...

  13. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    It is a bacteria that can grow in the intestines, and it produces a special kind of toxic waste that causes terrible inflammation of the colon, and its own unique foul odor. People who have been on a...

  14. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    TracyB, that is the

  15. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I remember this 97 year old comatose intubated lady from a nursing home, who had just come to ICU with sepsis and respiratory failure, was already maxed out on levophed and dopamine. They didn't...

  16. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    MDavid, do not breathe through your nose. Learn to work and speak normally while breathing only through your mouth. Until you get well away from the gross thing, and out of the room, mouth-breathe...

  17. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Well if they really need the procedure, I do it, but stay with as flat an affect as possible, then get the heck out. What is way worse to me than this type of pt., is the pt. who has a Voyeur-type...

  18. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't get this. Could you be more specific and give us the gorey

  19. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    whooo McCoy, this one would do it for me! I supposed the dog actually chewed and swallowed too, so it wasn't like the guy could have his parts sewed back on, huh. (Like Mr. Bobbit. Hey, lucky for him...

  20. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    To exotic nurse: Toothpaste pumps??!!!! Toothpaste pumps stuck up someone's rear???!!!!! Now THAT'S

  21. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't mean that maggots weren't believable, in easily accessible body parts. I just couldn't understand how someone's privates could be heavily infested, especially since the area is usually...

  22. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Ok so, DGfuturenurse, and Chucky, and everyone else who said they had pts. with maggots in their lady partss, seriously, how did these pts. get those maggots in their lady partss? Were they real...

  23. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    What the heck is a 76 stone

  24. Funny Names for Nurses

    Goofball replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    Our family doctor's name is Dr. Doolittle. But he really does a

  25. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Wait just a minute, NurseChris1, with your dirty diaper-eating dog. I think Mopsi outdid you with the maggot story!