rph3664

rph3664

Member

  • Content

    1,714

  • Visitors

    13,617

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    38

All Content by rph3664

  1. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    I do know that she was permanently banned from a large number of therapists' offices in her city for saying things like, "Now tell the nice counselor how much you hate Daddy." Like I said earlier,...

  2. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    I don't think my relative actually filed, although the only reason she didn't was because she would have lost custody. She bragged that she was planning to,

  3. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    I've mentioned this already here, but I have a relative whose ex-husband had to pay the kids' medical bills after their divorce, and she would do things like this just to soak him. :angryfire The kids...

  4. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My mom's been hospitalized a number of times, and the only time she ever heard anyone REALLY complain about the food was when she was in to have her tubes tied (back in the days when this was 3 days...

  5. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    i have a male friend who worked in a nuclear power plant (which is a culture unto itself) with his then-wife, and there was a guy who worked with them who thought it was really funny to flash the...

  6. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm pretty sure this was in Ohio. Here in rural Illinois, $400,000 will get you a mansion as well. Why do you choose to live where you

  7. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

  8. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Wouldn't you love to have that much free

  9. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Don't feel bad. What if you had fallen because you had a stroke? Those can happen in people of any

  10. Family thanks nurses for caring for difficult patient

    rph3664 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Such a letter, signed to boot, appeared in our employee newsletter this past week. I would post it if there was an online link, but there isn't. These people admitted that their relative was...

  11. How do you work with the "SUPERNURSE"!!!

    rph3664 replied to akrn70's topic in General Nursing

    Or is the abuser themselves, because they act that way around their spouses and children as

  12. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Lost vibrator. IN lady parts. Uhhhhh, there's only one

  13. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It's not the size of your pencil, it's how you write your name! Did you see my post on the last page about the guy for whom the doctor needed a lady partsl speculum to find it? I forgot to say he...

  14. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Once or twice a day is not the same as 10 or 20 times a day. I know where you're coming from,

  15. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Are you sitting down? We recently had a MALE patient who needed to be cathed, and they had to call in the urologist to find his member. Let's just say the doctor had to use a lady partsL SPECULUM...

  16. How does YOUR hospital waste its money?

    rph3664 replied to Riseupandnurse's topic in General Nursing

    $8 million over the past few years for a facility-wide computer system that's supposed to be easy to use and crash-proof, and

  17. Octuplets

    rph3664 replied to Sweeper933's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    What could be more pressing than 14 fatherless, neglected

  18. Nurses' handwriting

    rph3664 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Yesterday, I received a phone order from one of the floor nurses that was totally illegible. I sent a copy of the order back to the floor with a note attached explaining that I could not read it, and...

  19. Nurses' handwriting

    rph3664 replied to rph3664's topic in General Nursing

    We call nurses all the time because we can't read something. Our orders are faxed, and it's often because there is an artifact on the fax. But that wasn't the case here. A few years ago, a doctor...

  20. Things you would love to tell your management and get away with

    rph3664 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    Did he fight this, or was it in the days before people did things like

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

    rph3664 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I love Mike Rowe! When you watch "Dirty Jobs", aren't you glad we don't have Smell-o-Vision? Too bad ethics prevent him from job shadowing

  22. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    she was venting - about a nurse who refused to take care of

  23. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    With the spike on the end of it, and

  24. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Was the tube intact, or was it just the contents that had to be

  25. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    rph3664 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "Ask the girl of the hour, by the water tower's watch......" Yeah, talk about some unsafe sexual practices! What, someone did a nude painting of Mike?!?!? As he looks now, or back in his Bill Gates...