rph3664

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

    Change "lady parts" to

  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

    Or that they are

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

    rph3664 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    If this is about the baby who was killed in the car accident, I really think that any prospective EMS students should read them, unabridged of course, and see photos if available. It's NOT like it...

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

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    That's not a stupid reason. If you think you're really sick, you should be seen, and otitis media can be fatal if untreated. At one time, it often

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

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    So, what happened to him? Arrested or

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

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Was she admitted to psych? She may have been seriously

  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

    When I worked at the grocery store pharmacy, I once had a customer who told me that I made too much money, and I said to him, "Nobody is forcing you to take any of this medicine!" The other...

  8. 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 diabetic health care workers are absolutely the worse of

  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

    I believe that some women go to the ER for pregnancy tests because they think they can get an abortion there if the test is

  10. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    rph3664 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    More than once, I have asked people, "Why do you work here?" and not just in health care. I restrained myself from doing that with a fellow pharmacist at my last job, because I knew that in her case,...

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

    rph3664 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I never had kids, but even I know

  12. 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 believe that some women come to the ER for a pregnancy test because they believe they can get an abortion there if they are indeed

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

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    How long ago was this? There was once a time when you could just drive up to some psych wards, say, "I want this person admitted" and walk away even if the person had nothing wrong with them. If it...

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

    rph3664 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Leonca, welcome aboard! You do not have to be a nurse to post here. I'm a pharmacist, and there are physicians, dental hygienists, and at least one other vet tech named Fuzzy who stops by...

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

    rph3664 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I've heard of this as a sexual fetish, and it's usually

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

    rph3664 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    One of my friends was a med tech before he became a pharmacist, and had a similar story regarding sperm samples and Coffee

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

    rph3664 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was thinking the same thing. Was this person normal mentally? I've heard of it causing limb reductions, but not no bones at

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

    rph3664 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    I once got an order in the pharmacy where the doctor wrote something like this in the progress notes. When the man died a few days later and I saw his obituary in the newspaper, complete with picture...

  19. Daddy Put In Bye-Bye Box

    rph3664 replied to PiedPiperRN's topic in General Nursing

    bump I posted this on another website and got criticized for

  20. Daddy Put In Bye-Bye Box

    rph3664 replied to PiedPiperRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is not a typical Onion story, that's for

  21. 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

    BTW, "embarazada" does not mean "embarrased in Spanish. It means "pregnant" which could in some situations be

  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

    Good grief, when babies are old enough to tell their parents they have to go to the bathroom (or give some other signal), their parents take them there! I know that and I don't even have

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

    rph3664 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    :dancgrp:

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

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Did he slip in the

  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

    Were you my grandmother's nurse? She once refused to get out of bed after surgery, and this kind of thing happened to her! Since she was NOT ready for a nursing home yet, she did as she was