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  1. The Largest Student Loan Actually PAID OFF!

    fetch33 replied to BSNtobe2009's topic in General Nursing

    I know someone with close to 60K in student loans. This was from a public university too, so she must have financed the whole thing. I'd be scared to death to have that kind of loan balance upon...

  2. What's your holiday bonus?

    fetch33 replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    Usually, our cafeteria is closed for night shift on Thanksgiving. After polling night shift workers, they decided to open for a meal that night. The kicker was we had to pay for Thanksgiving meal.......

  3. How many of you work PRN only?

    fetch33 replied to RN007's topic in General Nursing

    I worked PRN for 12 years before finally taking a full-time position because I needed benefits (husband's job became unstable). I got plenty of hours

  4. Pregnant and can't lift?

    fetch33 replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    When I was pregnant with my first child, there was a code on the unit. I can't remember how far along I was, probably 2-3 months. I jumped on to the bed and was doing chest compressions. Our nurse...

  5. " Overtime "

    fetch33 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Where I work we can now pull up our paychecks online. One of the nurses was questioning her overtime pay. I got to looking at all of my checks from the present to years ago. Looks like OT isn't quite...

  6. You know you work nights when.......

    fetch33 replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked nights for 13 years. Amazingly, I can switch between staying up nights for work and having a normal sleep schedule on my nights off. I credit my 'drugs and plugs' mantra for my...

  7. temporal artery thermometers

    fetch33 replied to adrienurse's topic in General Nursing

    We've had them for nearly a year. I guess they are OK for normal temps. We have found them to be very inaccurate with higher temps though. We have had them register 107 degrees before! Of course the...

  8. Ever give yourself a flu shot before?

    fetch33 replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    One of my earliest nursing jobs involved working on a diabetic floor. Part of the orientation involved living as a diabetic for a week and giving myself injections of saline. Don't know if I could do...

  9. What's your Littmann stethescope of choice?

    fetch33 replied to dano's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have the Classic II. Did you know that when the tubing wears out and cracks, you can cut the bell off and send it to Littmann. For about $35 they will clean it and put on new tubing and ear pieces...

  10. Catholic hospitals-yes or no?

    fetch33 replied to texascowgirl's topic in Nursing Career

    I have worked for Catholic hospitals nearly my entire career. The only post-abortion patient that I have ever taken care of was in a Catholic hospital. There wasn't any problem with her getting a...

  11. Are you my waitress today?

    fetch33 replied to adria37's topic in General Nursing

    My sister is a nurse also and once told me the story of a patient who said " this is the worst hotel, I mean hospital I've ever been to

  12. PT with INR Disaster

    fetch33 replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I work on a large Ortho unit. Most of our total joint patients get PT/INRs daily. I have never heard that you have to waste 3 ml of blood when using a butterfly, which we use exclusively. We use both...

  13. "It's only Ketchup"

    fetch33 replied to PaynRN's topic in General Nursing

    :barf01:

  14. What have other nurses done that have freaked you out?

    fetch33 replied to texas_lvn's topic in General Nursing

    First, I'll start with something I did as a new nurse. I had to give a young patient an enema because he was having an organ transplant the next day. I prepared my equipment and inserted the tube....

  15. Charting Bloopers

    fetch33 replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    I remember an old, scruffy oncologist from years ago. He actually would walk up to the patient, move his stethoscope over the chest.... even though the ear pieces were clasped around his neck instead...

  16. Help with p/p on removal of JP drains.

    fetch33 replied to bogworks's topic in Orthopedic

    When I was a new nurse, 20 years ago, I watched another nurse removed a hemovac... and had blood slung clear across my uniform as she yanked it out! Since then, I've always held 4X4's over the drain...

  17. ortho post op pain control

    fetch33 replied to nurse96's topic in Orthopedic

    I work on a very busy 52 bed ortho floor. We do probably 30-40+ total joints a week. Our pain protocols have been tweeked over the years by a team of ortho docs and anesthesiologists. Patient's are...