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rph3664

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  1. ER- HELP: Dumbest reason people go to ER

    rph3664 replied to DachRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Yeah, the ER where I work recently had a 17-day-old baby. Visit reason: Umbilical cord fell off. Maybe they, and your parents, thought it just sort of shriveled up and disappeared like a

  2. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    I have a relative who, when she was married to her first husband, found a way to get admitted to the hospital on the average of once a year to have surgery. I asked our mutual relative if her ex was...

  3. Strange things found on (or in) a pt.

    rph3664 replied to squeakykitty's topic in Emergency

    A poster on another board I frequent works in the office at a voc/tech college dorm that is 90% plus men who are barely out of high school and on their own for the first time. She's always telling...

  4. Starting a Boarding Home

    rph3664 replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    I know a woman whose sister has severe MR, and her parents, who are quite wealthy, were always determined to keep her out of an institution. When the house next door came up for sale, and they knew...

  5. Socialist healthcare "horror story"

    rph3664 replied to Chico David's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Nataline Sarkisyan was not killed by her insurance company. She was killed by the cancer she had battled for some time. Had she received a new liver (no guarantees about that), the operation itself...

  6. My 9 year old patient was raped and required surgery

    rph3664 replied to ssouthernyankee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Continue to keep us posted.

  7. Baby Jesus as a NICU admission

    rph3664 replied to SteveNNP's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Not to mention, "Oh, great, another 15-year-old giving birth. What's this kid going to amount

  8. Question: Is there a thread that ONLY belongs to nurses?

    rph3664 replied to sweetsounds's topic in Emergency

    I think that's a good idea, to have a members-only area on the board where people could post details that might betray their identity on the main board should a lurker find it.

  9. "Nursing students with C's are still nurses".. ?

    rph3664 replied to whiteoleander5's topic in General Students

    We had a pharmacy professor who did things like this, and the dean had to get involved because he really wasn't testing people; he was simply frustrating them. One story that people talk about still...

  10. Would you marry any medical professional

    rph3664 replied to Iam46yearsold's topic in General Nursing

    My sister's 7 years younger than me, also has never been married, and her Deal Breaker Numero Uno is children. That surprised me because she's always wanted to be a mom and cannot have children of her...

  11. Would you marry any medical professional

    rph3664 replied to Iam46yearsold's topic in General Nursing

    My reasoning behind that is, "If he had treated his wife better, he would probably still be married to her." And this is something I have heard WAY more from men than I have from women! Keep in mind...

  12. Police use excessive force, ER docs say- What do ER nurses think

    rph3664 replied to rjflyn's topic in Emergency

    One of our residents is a former police officer who became interested in medicine by bringing inmates to the ER.

  13. I want to become a RN, how would being a CPhT be an advantage?

    rph3664 replied to bound4nursing's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked with nursing students, and having that experience with drugs really helped them out in that regard. And when they worked in hospitals, they learned what really goes on in the

  14. Question: Is there a thread that ONLY belongs to nurses?

    rph3664 replied to sweetsounds's topic in Emergency

    I had no idea you were lurking, or would stop by shortly! I always love your stories about what goes on at the vet clinic. I had to take one of my cats to the vet last week, and she was the first...

  15. Question: Is there a thread that ONLY belongs to nurses?

    rph3664 replied to sweetsounds's topic in Emergency

    I have posted on the Male Nursing Forum even though I am neither male nor a nurse, because I have had something to say which was approriate for that forum. I've been asked why I come here. It's...

  16. Seven 10 hour days followed by seven days off job offer

    rph3664 replied to krazykev's topic in General Nursing

    Our overnight pharmacists do this. It would take a certain kind of person to do it, that's for sure. One of our pharmacists tried this when we were in a pinch (he's married, with 3 kids, and really...

  17. Nursing and Fibromyalgia

    rph3664 replied to CaLVN530's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I recently tried to read a book about the history of Lyme Disease, and gave up in frustration and took it back to the library because it made me so angry. It was story after story of people who had...

  18. Nursing and Fibromyalgia

    rph3664 replied to CaLVN530's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I haven't heard horror stories about Lyrica that even compare to Cymbalta! How Cymbalta ever got on the market defies

  19. Would you marry any medical professional

    rph3664 replied to Iam46yearsold's topic in General Nursing

    I forgot to mention that for me, Deal Breaker Numero Uno is that he cannot ever have been divorced, for any reason. Please do not tell me that I'm unreasonable because I've already heard it lots of...

  20. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    I collect old medical books, and we haven't changed as much as we think we have. A urology book from the WW II era has a picture of a fishhook that was removed from a man's urethra; he had inserted it...

  21. "Nursing students with C's are still nurses".. ?

    rph3664 replied to whiteoleander5's topic in General Students

    I had a C average all though pharmacy school (most of my classmates did too; this is also not unusual in engineering programs) and when I took the NABPLEX, I got the second highest score I've ever...

  22. Would you marry any medical professional

    rph3664 replied to Iam46yearsold's topic in General Nursing

    That applies to people in ANY job of any

  23. Do nurses talk about their patients when the leave

    rph3664 replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Nursing

    I have known a lot of women who did that - they went into labor and would not allow their husbands/boyfriends to take them to the hospital until they had showered and shaved their legs (or had him do...

  24. Do nurses talk about their patients when the leave

    rph3664 replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Nursing

    Forgive me for my ignorance, since I am not a nurse, but how do you get a BP on a patient (male or female) who has had a double mastectomy? You have piqued my curiosity. Stretch marks seem to be very...

  25. My 9 year old patient was raped and required surgery

    rph3664 replied to ssouthernyankee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I think by "her", they meant the mom. The child did nothing