jstinerich

leave the water running and turn it off with a paper towel. open the restroom door with a paper towel and then throw the towel away.

When you don't turn off the water after washing your hands until you have another dry towel in your hand and then you use it to open the restroom door.

I was called in by another Rn to help find the urethra. We couldn't find it! Inside of her labia looked like a round ball with "potato eyes on it." We placed the woman on a bed pan and watched her void. She had urine coming from all the different eye...

Hey, this is not a new problem. Except our assistant left during a code! I had a gunshot to abdomin and total hip in the same room! Couldn't get to the hip pt. Went to the nurse manager to ask for help, she was setting in her office doing her homewor...

The patient rep. used to come and check the gold coast rooms before a VIP arrived. She'd get new mattresses, walls painted, mantainance to fix things, etc. The first time I saw her she told me that I had a VIP coming and to take good care of the vice...

I know that Vioxx and Celebrex are both chemically similar to sulfa drugs. Aren't the old type two diabetic drugs similar chemically?

My brother was a heavy smoker. After he rode in my cloth seats - car it smelled of old smoke until the day I sold it!

Are you a nurse or a mouse? (Sorry just got finished watching American Tale with my daughter - again). Just tell whomever that you care and you want to remind them that they need to be checked. If they look at you funny, say something like, "look I'd...

If it were me, I would go and tell the supervisor in private (maybe the office) that I did not see the two people lift the table,before I left the code area. Then leave it up to her/him to investigate and draw his/her own conclusions.

This is what the word of God says about how to care for others. Matthew 7:1 "Judge not, that you be not judged. " John13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. Galatains 5:...

Yeah, go for the first aid course. Get an AHA BLS health care provideer certificate. If the school accepts courses from a local junior college, go and get rid of all the possible electives: A&P, nutrition, growth & development, etc. Wouldn't ...

I was reapplying a colostomy bag to a quad and he got an erection. I retained my cool even though other helpers in the room excused themselves and left us alone. The patient looked quite proud of himself. A minister, who had had a stroke was admitted...

PRIVACY IN AMERICA: Workplace Drug Testing Legislative Briefing Kit on Drug Testing (Access this report for detailed discussion of the issue.) Today, in some industries, taking a drug test is as routine as filling out a job application. In fact, ...

No, Mattsmom 81, you are correct. You can request another counselor. After I get this paperwork for SS done again, I'll probably go look up the guy who first interviewed me. He told me to let me know if things didn't work out. But sometimes you just ...

If you daughter learns to count and tell colors with shot-gun shells.

Thanks mattsmom85 I went to vocational rehab here in the state. The head was excellent in my initial interview, but the person he assigned me to just blew me off. So, thank you very much for your suggestions of work I might be able to do. I would lik...

I was just thinking how I wish I could talk to someone who would be empathic with my situation. Because of an AA in my 20's while still in nursing school, I have severe muscle spasms when lifting. Therefore, I went back to school in my 30's and got m...

the whip - The poor hygiene of your fellow student does indeed suggest that she is doing what she's saying. How much is she doing? Here's the rule of thumb: (with drug use, divide what she says she does by 4; with alcohol multiple by 2). Jan - The i...

Hey, it's a true story. I have heard that if you do crack even once you may be dependent. Ah, so you have some Peter Pan friends, don't want to grow up. Have you ever noticed that they don't continue any social maturation?

Just wait until you're a patient and your night nurse comes in late and "higher than a kite". While you were waiting for shift change, you tried to get up to a chair, you get stuck with a pillow under your middle back. On your left side you have a ch...

What happened to the admin rule that all nurses are not to break-never tell the patients that you are short staffed. After all most hospital admin want you to be sued not the facility.

What happened to the admin rule that all nurses are not to break-never tell the patients that you are short staffed. After all most hospital admin want you to be sued not the facility.