ForensicRN99

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1. Pubic hair

   ForensicRN99 replied to nurseJLoo's topic in General Nursing

   I should add that 24 years ago they would shave pubic hair on women who were in labor, the nurses acted like it was no big deal, it was a part of their job. I don't know when the practice stopped, because three years later I had another son, and tha...

2. Pubic hair

   ForensicRN99 replied to nurseJLoo's topic in General Nursing

   I can honestly say a nurse once shave my pubic hairs! About 24 years ago when I was in labor with my son, can honestly say I don't want to experience that again!

3. I didn't get all this education to wipe behinds!

   ForensicRN99 replied to SeekingNur's topic in General Nursing

   I was a CNA for four years before becoming a RN, and didn't think twice to assist a patient to the Bathroom, or change a brief if I was near by, and can say that I usually didn't walk past a room without answering a light going off, what did get unde...

4. Another "OMG i can't believe you did that!" family member story

   ForensicRN99 replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

   I don't know if having "private" rooms would help, in my section I had three private rooms, and the administrator look in and said yes it's big enough, and the next think I know the three private rooms turned into semi-rooms! Try having two trach pt...

5. I Think I was Fired for Invoking Safe Harbour

   ForensicRN99 replied to Lady Ravenwolf's topic in General Nursing

   Wow, I am confused here, I was terminated for not changing a doctor's order, (instructed by a superviser), and each attorney I had talked to said that if you aren't union, you are an at will employee and they do not need a reason to terminate you! N...

6. claiming to be what she isn't

   ForensicRN99 replied to traumamomtx's topic in General Nursing

   Country Mom, do I have a story for you! I had a patient that had dialysis one day, well she wasn't doing too well, I asked the doctor if I could send her to the ER for eval and tx, he said no she is to go to the dialysis center, and I was told to w...

7. Please be nice to medical students

   ForensicRN99 replied to cantor2537's topic in General Nursing

   Cantor, I am so sorry to hear about your experience, but I also know how you feel, when I was a nursing student I had clinicals at this one hospital and the nurses where crappy toward the nursing students, acted like we were in there way, ect...So wh...

8. claiming to be what she isn't

   ForensicRN99 replied to traumamomtx's topic in General Nursing

   where I had worked I had a Nurse Aid tell me that she could do my job, that all I did was pass meds, and how hard could that be? I also had another Nurse Aid that failed nursing school tell the patients that he was the nurse and even went as far as ...

9. Best Brand of Shoes

   ForensicRN99 replied to SwtTxLdy's topic in General Nursing

   I'm sorry, I should of mentioned the "Mary Jane" style, they don't come in size 5, or at least not at the sites I have looked at, but I will try a different brand and see if that works. Thank you for the suggestions Darlene

10. Best Brand of Shoes

    ForensicRN99 replied to SwtTxLdy's topic in General Nursing

    Dansko sounds great, but I wear a size 5 and have problems finding shoes in that size, any suggestions?

11. Update- job from h*!!

    ForensicRN99 replied to elthia's topic in General Nursing

    I am happy to see that everything is working out for you. I just came out of a bad job, it was so bad that I started to think that maybe nursing just isn't for me, I have gone through some of the same crap that you have written, and couldn't believ...

12. Taking a child off life support

    ForensicRN99 replied to vaughanmk's topic in General Nursing

    I should add, we shouldn't keep the child on life support, just be a little sensitive to the mother's feelings, it is her life lying there in that bed.

13. Taking a child off life support

    ForensicRN99 replied to vaughanmk's topic in General Nursing

    Having lived through this, I can honestly say there is nothing harder than a mother saying good bye to a child, and even though we are nurses and sometimes build up a wall in order not to get emotionally involved with our patients we have to validate...