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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...

  16. Funny Names for Nurses

    Goofball replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    We had an elderly patient who used to come in a lot, by the name of Precious Flowers. The other day, we had patients with the last names of Brown, Sugar, and Cinnamon, which looked pretty cute up on...

  17. Practical jokes at work

    Goofball replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

    On April 1st, our charge nurse told one of our new grad 'green' RNs, when she walked in for her shift, that she was being assigned to a pt. who was being transferred from our hospital to one in San...

  18. Nurses week Cheap gifts from admin.

    Goofball replied to nilepoc's topic in General Nursing

    The docs and managers used to have pizzas or chinese food delivered, a different meal each day of the week for both shifts. But they haven't done anything for years now. We did have the choice of...

  19. Funny Names for Nurses

    Goofball replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh yes, I read Dr. Seymour Butts book, "Under the

  20. Funny Names for Nurses

    Goofball replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    Was his first name

  21. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, sorry I asked. But wait...how did you know that it is CHEWY? Hey do any of you boomer nurses remember when it was the fad amongst the cultish 'earth people' types to have home births, and grind up...

  22. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, fedupnurse, I'm right in there with ya! By the way, do you know what Wharton's Jelly

  23. Funny Names for Nurses

    Goofball replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    Well I had a friend in school named Kathy Dicks. She used to laugh about it too. Another friend and I used to introduce her to people as, "Her name's Kathy Dicks. But she

  24. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Uh, sorry, I got carried away with ileostomy diarrhea of the mouth on that last post. What I really meant to say was, that I still want to know what 'Wharton's Jelly'

  25. What Freaks You Out?

    Goofball replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    We have a patient like that who comes in to the hospital all the time. She is in her early 80's, and has had surgery after surgery for cancers. she has nothing much left of her 'innards, and...