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rph3664

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  1. 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

    Not to mention that if they can buy cigarettes for themselves, they can certainly buy Tylenol for their own

  2. 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

    The renowned groupie Cynthia Plaster Caster used (uses?) dental impression plaster. The permanent models were indeed made of plaster. Two well-known bands who refused her services were Black Sabbath...

  3. I hate NEC

    rph3664 replied to Sweeper933's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    No, this happens to adults on TPN as well. Someone who is getting all or most of their nutrition from this obviously has numerous other health issues, but in any case, if someone is going to be on...

  4. Is this odd to you too?

    rph3664 replied to mom4josh's topic in General Nursing

    Via Netflix, I recently watched a documentary called "A Certain Kind of Death", about unclaimed bodies in L.A. County and how the death scene is processed and their belongings liquidated. Amazing that...

  5. Is this odd to you too?

    rph3664 replied to mom4josh's topic in General Nursing

    I just saw a story on CNN yesterday about people who bury active, charged cell phones with a loved one. One family said the phone rang during the service. If it helps them cope better, I don't see the...

  6. Is this odd to you too?

    rph3664 replied to mom4josh's topic in General Nursing

    :icon_hug:

  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

    And this sounds like an NFL player who had a scandal-free career, and a happy life after he

  8. personal problems lead to license revocation?

    rph3664 replied to SwampCat's topic in General Nursing

    If a person had their child taken away, they probably have a lot of other problems that would lead to them not being capable of working as a nurse. Notice that the above sentence is gender neutral. I...

  9. 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

  10. How do you keep from catching everything?

    rph3664 replied to Purple_Scrubs's topic in General Nursing

    I was asked that all the time when I was a grocery store pharmacist! I replied that we probably aren't exposed to any more germs than the general population; we just KNOW we

  11. 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

    Turns out I was not the only person who was thinking

  12. 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

    There is a technician to whom we would all love to say that, but we dare not because when people have, they lived to regret it. For reasons I won't go into here, she is exempt from disciplinary...

  13. Does anyone know the name of this medication?

    rph3664 replied to cminmd's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Does it have a weird chemical smell? This sounds like tincture of benzoin; the M might come from a brand name that your facility

  14. my kid wants a sibling, I want to start nursing school

    rph3664 replied to la mama 310's topic in General Students

    I hear this all the time: "My husband doesn't help with the kids but I want to have more anyway." And then they whine because they're more overworked than before. :vlin: Doesn't make sense to me,...

  15. Octuplets

    rph3664 replied to Sweeper933's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    The third and fourth sets of quintuplets where all survived, the Fischers of South Dakota and the Prietos of Venezuela, were born within the same week in 1963 and both were unplanned sixth...

  16. Octuplets

    rph3664 replied to Sweeper933's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    AFAIK, there is no oversight regarding fertility doctors and clinics, and too many of them care only that the check is good.

  17. Octuplets

    rph3664 replied to Sweeper933's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    You sure they didn't say 2 months? Now, to read the rest of the thread. This is a story that keeps getting weirder and weirder. BTW, there's another thread on the OB/GYN board (I started

  18. my kid wants a sibling, I want to start nursing school

    rph3664 replied to la mama 310's topic in General Students

    Your husband says he'll help with babysitting? Huh? You don't babysit your own

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

    rph3664 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    It's entirely possible that this nurse already told that story earlier in this

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

    rph3664 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Havey you seen that "Dirty Jobs" episode where they're at a leather tannery, and Mike Rowe finds a boil on the underside of a hide that's about the size of a golfball, and then squeezes this...

  21. Question about organ donation.

    rph3664 replied to xlilchatonx's topic in General Nursing

    My friend's 14-year-old son was an organ donor after he collapsed with a brain aneurysm. They could not use his heart, lungs, or liver, because those are damaged during CPR, but she and his father...

  22. FREE TUITION - FREE BSN - University of Arizona

    rph3664 replied to nursing123098's topic in Arizona Nursing

    I just remembered a news story I heard a while back about a college in Arizona (don't know if it's this one) that is offering free tuition to any Iraq or Afghanistan veteran who wishes to obtain a...

  23. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    She wasn't a patient; she was an employee. Still a violation of professional boundaries. My source did say that he was not married at the time - UNLIKE the doctor who got caught in a storage closet a...

  24. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    A hospital where I once worked had an ER doctor who was an alcoholic, and for him, hitting bottom was when he went into an ER booth with a brain-damaged woman who also worked at that hospital (I don't...

  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

    Over the years, I have worked with more than one woman to whom I wanted to say, "Was your marriage arranged, and did you get your kids from being raped? If not, YOU picked him." These women, BTW, were...