rph3664

rph3664

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  1. Nurse manhandled by doctor

    rph3664 replied to Scrubby's topic in General Nursing

    When my mom was a hospital volunteer in the early 1970s, she saw a very prominent OB backhand a nurse in the nurse's station because she didn't get him something soon enough. Why he was prominent was...

  2. Nurse manhandled by doctor

    rph3664 replied to Scrubby's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't read the rest of the thread, so I definitely have a question. Is the doctor foreign

  3. Child Vaccinations

    rph3664 replied to pwg1219's topic in General Nursing

    Can't you get vaccines for about $7 to $10 at the county health department? You can in my area, and I don't think they have any income or insurance guidelines. Most vaccines are theoretically optional...

  4. Men intimidated by RN salary?

    rph3664 replied to ment2be's topic in General Nursing

    ITA!!

  5. Kids Say the Darndest Things

    rph3664 replied to EricJRN's topic in School

    My brother had Osgood-Schlatter disease as an adolescent, and a few years later, he thought it would be a great name for a

  6. Men intimidated by RN salary?

    rph3664 replied to ment2be's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a pharmacist, which is rapidly becoming a female dominated profession, and wanna know how many times I have heard a colleague say that her husband was unhappy with her salary?

  7. It's Hard to Live with a Nurse because....

    rph3664 replied to nurz2be's topic in Nursing Humor

    When I was in pharmacy school, I was telling my communications major roommate about the very interesting lecture we had that day, about sexually transmitted diseases. "They showed us pictures of this...

  8. Strange things people present to the ER with....

    rph3664 replied to klcrn1987's topic in Emergency

    This story is DEFINITELY NWS!

  9. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was told once that the #1 way to prevent lawn mower injuries is to wear shoes while mowing the lawn. Not flipflops, not bare feet, but SHOES. It's also not a good idea to unclog the discharge vent...

  10. -- I am recent college graduate, can I still get a pharmaceutical sales job?

    rph3664 replied to Jerome_Darrell's topic in General Nursing

    why on earth would you want to do

  11. Want To Go To Cna School Free??!?!?!?!

    rph3664 replied to EmergencyMedicine's topic in Illinois Nursing

    You're 20 years old. There are tons of programs like this one, all over the

  12. Funny Names

    rph3664 replied to nurserynurse55's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I lived briefly on an Indian reservation in the early 1990s, and they did a lot of name-combining for girls as well, or giving her a feminized derivative of the father's name. Back in the old days,...

  13. how do you guys do it?

    rph3664 replied to june2009's topic in Psychiatric

    The parents are more likely to be focused on their cell phones, hair weaves, this week's F buddy, their meth lab, and their welfare checks than the kids, but

  14. Merck suspends lobbying for Gardasil vaccine

    rph3664 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I haven't heard of anyone I know personally having really serious reactions to the vaccine, but I have heard, over and over again, that the injection is often extremely painful. That it would be...

  15. Choosing to be a Type 1 diabetic

    rph3664 replied to Bicycleboy's topic in General Students

    Slightly OT: My mom's best friend's husband had a colostomy from 1949 until his death a few years ago. A while back, I met a woman who had once had a temporary colostomy after intestinal surgery,...

  16. Merck suspends lobbying for Gardasil vaccine

    rph3664 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Or maybe some reverse sexism by female researchers who believe that men who are promiscuous deserve to get prostate or penile cancer? If that's true (which I seriously doubt), it's not right either....

  17. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was told that story by the boy's grandmother, who was a nurse and with whom he was living with his brother and their father, who had just gotten divorced from their mom who wasn't paying child...

  18. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    If your 4-year-old nephew, who you are babysitting, isn't being perfectly obedient (BECAUSE HE'S FOUR YEARS OLD), do not give him one of your own child's Ritalin tablets.

  19. Foot Detox

    rph3664 replied to country mom's topic in General Nursing

    It's supposed to, and a colon cleanse makes it come out faster - WAY faster. Did anyone see Suzanne Somers on the Larry King show a few years ago? She was talking about using human growth hormone and...

  20. Something that shocked me

    rph3664 replied to WayneStateKatie's topic in General Students

    They better not ever have kids! Edit: And what does this guy do every day when he goes

  21. Tv shows that dictate nurses as a "janitor"

    rph3664 replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    And they inform people of a death or a serious diagnosis in a crowded hallway or the parking

  22. Postpartum depression in men?

    rph3664 replied to LydiaNN's topic in General Nursing

    True, and there are probably just as many women who feel the same way. I've heard of men having morning sickness (and this seems to be more common when the woman does not) and experiencing labor...

  23. A Frustrated Nurse Writes About Poor Conditions in Evacuee Shelters

    rph3664 replied to cpkRN's topic in General Nursing

    It is real? That stinks, that people can be so ungrateful. In 2005, we did get some hurricane people but they were from here or had relatives living here, and they were legitimately in need. I think...

  24. A Frustrated Nurse Writes About Poor Conditions in Evacuee Shelters

    rph3664 replied to cpkRN's topic in General Nursing

    I did, and that's why I tacked on the edit about the fraudulent Katrina person being white. Race shouldn't matter, but it does to some

  25. A Frustrated Nurse Writes About Poor Conditions in Evacuee Shelters

    rph3664 replied to cpkRN's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't read the entire thread, but the OP smells of that story that circulated after Katrina about the people who went to Salt Lake City, and one of the evacuees was discovered to have $100,000 in...