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  1. Nurses, do you routinely do beds and baths?

    Furball replied to Rapheal's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked floors, and ICU...... expecting the M/S nurse to do all care for 9 pts is nuts! Even giving baths to just half your assignment is exceedingly too much. In ICU it's doable because you only...

  2. Why LPN??

    Furball replied to Q.'s topic in General Nursing

    Kinds reminds me of some tribe I saw on TV the other week where they dig up bones from relatives graves and chew on

  3. Roaches are going to drive me out of home care!!!

    Furball replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

    One time, while speaking on the phone to a doc while at a pt's house, the chickens started a ruckus. Yup, the chickens were INSIDE this house! I'll never forget the doctor sounding so incredulous...

  4. Roaches are going to drive me out of home care!!!

    Furball replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

    I quit HH because of the Gawd awful paperwork. The next in line reason I quit was the cockroaches scurrying around my feet as I changed a dressing on a stinking, moldy, rottten swamp-foot. It was a...

  5. Pneumatic tube systems....

    Furball replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    She was an ENT pt. Tumors can damage the artery enough to cause hemorrhage. It was

  6. Pneumatic tube systems....

    Furball replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    I remember a pt suffering a carotid blow out on the floor...thank God for the tube system...we got much needed blood RIGHT AWAY...instead of waiting for someone to run down 9 flights of stairs or wait...

  7. Songs that you can relate to nursing.

    Furball replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

    hahahahahahahahahaha

  8. Songs that you can relate to nursing.

    Furball replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

    Feelin' groooooovy......NOT! Well....maybe if your on a dilaudid/MSO4

  9. Songs that you can relate to nursing.

    Furball replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

    For the OR nurse "The first cut is the

  10. Songs that you can relate to nursing.

    Furball replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

    From a comercial STRESS HITS! ARID WORKS! (thanks Kristi

  11. Songs that you can relate to nursing.

    Furball replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

    How about "Flight of the

  12. Songs that you can relate to nursing.

    Furball replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

    perfect one

  13. Songs that you can relate to nursing.

    Furball replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

    I get knocked down.. but I get up

  14. Memories of nursing school.....

    Furball replied to wv_nurse 2003's topic in General Nursing

    One of my worst memories was a nursing student who was a religious zealot. It was awful. He'd try to convert pts while they are lying in a hospital, seriously ill, no escape for them. He was "spoken...

  15. Anybody work in a religious hospital?

    Furball replied to delirium's topic in General Nursing

    When I graduated from nursing school I was offered a position in a Catholic hospital. I felt uncomfortable. I'm a (fairly) liberal Presbyterian so I went with the large teaching hospital insead. Who...

  16. Questions about dying patients...

    Furball replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in General Nursing

    My mom died of cancer. Before I had even THOUGHT about becoming an RN.She was just entering endstage when one afternoon my sister told me she thought she wouldn't last the night....just had a gut...

  17. Undecided whether to become a Letter Carrier or R.N?

    Furball replied to Lisa24's topic in General Students

    I'm sorry but "asking hubby" for money? When I was in nursing school "his" money was OUR money. Now I make twice as much as he.....and it's still OUR money. Sorry OT but it was something that caught...

  18. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Furball replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Wow dspring, I might just post your story on my refrigerator.....made me lose my

  19. new grads that don'y ask questions

    Furball replied to altomga's topic in General Nursing

    Bingo Zudy! I used to ask my preceptor to please think out loud because that truly stimulated questions that I otherwise wouldn't have thought of to

  20. new grads that don'y ask questions

    Furball replied to altomga's topic in General Nursing

    Many times newbies are ridiculed for their questions. I got my head ripped off because I didn't know platlets could drop bp's. (1 week into orientation or there abouts) I pulled out the blood product...

  21. If You're becoming a Nurse for the Money......

    Furball replied to Kaelie's topic in Nursing Career

    hahahahaha I work fulltime plus OT....I drive a hyundai. Must be doing something

  22. Are you MAN enough to be a Nurse?

    Furball replied to Cascadians's topic in General Nursing

    That would be awesome having a biker dude back me up against a tantrum throwing, God-complex, instrument throwing, loud, obnoxious, female hating doc! I would welcome them with open arms, cookies and...

  23. Pros and Cons of Baylor Plans

    Furball replied to Jenny P's topic in General Nursing

    That sounds like St Clares in Schenectady!

  24. Questioning doctors orders

    Furball replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

    I hope I have a nurse like you if I'm ever dying a painful death. Who cares if I live a bit longer in agony without the pain meds?>??? Gimme the damn

  25. Is anyones facility so short staffed that they feel guilty calling in sick?

    Furball replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

    I call off when ill. no questions. It happens about once or twice every 1-5 years...so no I do not feel guilty in the least. Why would you risk spreading illness to pts who are already struggling...