curiousauntie

curiousauntie

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  1. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    curiousauntie replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    From the movie "My Big, Fat Greek Wedding". The father thought that any injury or illness could be cured by spraying Windex on it. Funny

  2. Funny Names for Nurses

    curiousauntie replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    And how could I forget my pediatrician when I was a child...Dr. Yankavich (like Weird Al). My mother would never let me say his name, I could not pronounce the "v" and instead substituted a

  3. Funny Names for Nurses

    curiousauntie replied to randomnamees's topic in Nursing Humor

    An ob-gyn named Dr.

  4. I don't want to come to work on my days off.

    curiousauntie replied to Wheaties's topic in General Nursing

    My sister (not a nurse) has a sign over her desk that says: "Poor planing on managements part does not constitute an emergency on my part" Try saying that to yourself every once in a while. It does...

  5. Please help, questions about LTC placement

    curiousauntie replied to gypsyatheart's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    moondancer, i can't believe that i didn't think of that...my mind has been a bit absent lately... in my state there are assisted living facilities that have dedicated "memory support" or "dementia"...

  6. Please help, questions about LTC placement

    curiousauntie replied to gypsyatheart's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep bugging the DON. There is absolutely no reason that she has not returned your phone call. Standards of care are not being met...check and change every 2 hours prn, showers...

  7. Hospice and Palliative Nurse Cert. Exam

    curiousauntie replied to LadyBugLass's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I just bought the Core Curriculum and another study book on the HPNA website. I first joined as all of the books they have available are much cheaper as a member...plus if I am going to get...

  8. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    curiousauntie replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    That would make an interesting

  9. Medicare Probe

    curiousauntie replied to PeacePisceRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Oh boy, does that put me between a rock and a hard place! I wish I had an answer for that. I dearly loved long-term-care nursing. When I started, it was before OBRA and all of the "mandates" that...

  10. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    curiousauntie replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    ...and he knows what Downey tastes like

  11. 501 ways to know you've been on allnurses.com too long!

    curiousauntie replied to Roy Fokker's topic in Nursing Humor

    when the only indication of the time of day is the little clock in the lower right hand side of my computer screen, and I know that it lies...I HAVE NOT been on allnurses for 3 hours already...it is...

  12. Medicare Probe

    curiousauntie replied to PeacePisceRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    What both of you have failed to recognize is that while hopsice is a benifit of Medicare (and other insurances) a nursing home is the patient's HOME. It is where they live, their address. A hospital...

  13. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    curiousauntie replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    OK. Just read the last post...now what am I supposed to do at night? I have been reading these for about a week and have become addicted!!! Keep them coming. I can't wait to see what gets posted...

  14. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    curiousauntie replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I had a coworker who got me with this a couple of years ago. We got every one on the unit and then I sent it to my sister who had a blast getting her coworkers. I just re-sent it to her...she has a...

  15. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    curiousauntie replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    "I work in a LTC facility, and the strange things always happen on the night shift (around 3 a.m.)! This was posted 10-3-05 (!) but I have to respond. I have been told that 3AM is the "witching...

  16. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    curiousauntie replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Ok. I started to read this thread about 2 hours ago. I have not been able to stop. It is now 9:56pm and I really need to go to bed...but maybe not to sleep? I figured I would click on the "last"...

  17. Crocs & Back Problems

    curiousauntie replied to BlondieRN09's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have a pair of Crocs, but use them only for outside work (gardening and the like...but NOT cutting grass) or for the pool. I can only wear them for a short time for walking. There is no stability...

  18. Held hostage by job

    curiousauntie replied to Ms Kylee's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I was told I have to pay back the money that the hospital paid for my nursing assistant class and I have to pay back the whole amount. Your info does not say what state you live in. In NJ, if an...

  19. Hi, New user, Hospice nurse looking for input from other hospice nurses

    curiousauntie replied to pcrn's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Hi. Have been working hospice for about a year. Started at $29/hr, NOT salaried, hourly. Get overtime for anything over 40. On-call pay is $50 a day, Mon-Fri, 5:00pm-8:30am, and $100 for Sat or Sun,...

  20. What to do??????????secretions.....

    curiousauntie replied to AtlantaRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    i just got the royal ream out for using roxanol via nebulizer - any experience any one? I have used sugar free morphine for nebs for pts with severe SOB. It is useful at times. The last one was a...

  21. bladder cancer and spasms

    curiousauntie posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I posted this same post on a thread about bladder spasms (Google took me there as I was searching about B&O suppositories). I am hoping that I will get lots a ideas as I am at my wits end at to...

  22. bladder cancer and spasms

    curiousauntie replied to curiousauntie's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Thank you all for your replies. I havn't looked at this thread in a while...so I guess I should bring you up to date. My friend had her surgery in July and did well at first. The Indiana pouch worked...

  23. Do you attend funerals?

    curiousauntie replied to Rnmomajmj's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    In my hospice the spiritual care coordinator posts the obits for the staff to see and the staff decides if they want to attend. If I have been close to the patient or the family I do go. Two weeks ago...

  24. Handling On Call

    curiousauntie replied to CaringRN1234's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    When I started in hospice, I was doing on-call 7days on 7 days off. My biggest fear was that I would not know when I needed to actually go to the patients home or if the advice I gave over the phone...

  25. LVNs in hospice

    curiousauntie replied to river1951's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I am in New Jersey. We are a small office, 2 full-time case managers and 2 part-time. We have 2 LPNs. The RNs carry 14-16 patients each (full-time) and 8-10 for the part-timers. The LPNs carry...