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

    rph3664 replied to DachRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    MassEd, I love the smilie in your signature, although the first time I saw it, I wondered why the smilie was drinking a glass full of

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

    rph3664 replied to squeakykitty's topic in Emergency

    I once read about a widowed, childless elderly woman who came into the hospital for some fairly routine problem. She had to be catheterized, and whoever did this discovered that her urethra was...

  3. I was slapped by a doctor!

    rph3664 replied to cluelessRN81's topic in General Nursing

    When my mom was a hospital volunteer in the early 1970s, she once saw an white American male OB backhand a nurse in the station because she didn't get him a chart fast enough. This doctor was just as...

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

    rph3664 replied to squeakykitty's topic in Emergency

    and you didn't think that might be a possibility when you saw the thread's

  5. oldest babies in the NICU?

    rph3664 replied to bubbly's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I meant to hit "quote" when I thanked you. Oh, well. Why did he leave after 20 years? Were other provisions made for his ventilation, or did he

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

    rph3664 replied to DachRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    Did the officer tell you the whole story? Betcha he didn't. The reason law enforcement doesn't take DV seriously (or so it seems) is because most of the time, arresting the perpetrator is a waste of...

  7. Single Parent In Nursing School?!?!?

    rph3664 replied to HartfordSPN's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    I'm not a parent, but the single parent students I have known had to study either when the children were asleep or not around, or find times during the day when the kids were in day care anyway. So,...

  8. Waive benefits for an increase in base pay?

    rph3664 replied to username2008's topic in Emergency

    Plus, group health insurance CANNOT be cancelled or revoked. Individually purchased policies can be. And if you think your employer's coverage is expensive and has restrictions, try going it on your...

  9. Holding our tongues vs things we really want to say!

    rph3664 replied to TraumaNurseRN's topic in Emergency

    The same reason why people like that take all the kids with them to whatever 24-hour store they go to when they "need" beer or cigarettes, for which they always have money, at 0300 on a school

  10. Anyone can get into Nursing.

    rph3664 replied to indiawhitaker's topic in General Nursing

    Or at the very least, get rid of him! It's not necessary to have a boyfriend (or

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

    rph3664 replied to squeakykitty's topic in Emergency

    Ever seen the cult movie "Pink Flamingos"? There's a character who runs around city parks flashing women in this manner. One of the "women" was a man in the final stages of gender reassignment,...

  12. New "Hopkins" reality show

    rph3664 replied to djc1981's topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone remember "Houston Medical", which aired around the same time (ca. 2000)? The only doctors who were even remotely likable were Dr. Marnie Rose, who was battling brain cancer and died...

  13. New "Hopkins" reality show

    rph3664 replied to djc1981's topic in General Nursing

    If this is who you're thinking of, this girl died even before her episode aired, although it was a type of cancer that is seldom curable anyway and so rare, most doctors never see a case of it. Still...

  14. Anyone can get into Nursing.

    rph3664 replied to indiawhitaker's topic in General Nursing

    In the OP, she mentions that he works at the Dollar Tree and intends to be the next Bob Dylan, whatever that means. There's nothing wrong with working at the Dollar Tree, but like I said in my earlier...

  15. I know this might sound ridiculous, but

    rph3664 replied to Sadiegirl1122's topic in General Nursing

    I have heard that a lot of people have a really big problem with abscesses, because unlike other natural bodily secretions, you have no way of knowing what they're going to smell like until they're...

  16. The Hospital Spa

    rph3664 replied to Medic2RN's topic in General Nursing

    I have a relative who, when she was married to her first husband, would find a way to get admitted to the hospital, often for surgery, at least once a year. I asked our mutual relative if her husband...

  17. Would you marry a female MD?

    rph3664 replied to cgun101's topic in Men in Nursing

    That was probably what he meant by "live on my nursing

  18. Dave Barry's Colonoscopy

    rph3664 replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    I saw something in the "Baby Blues" comic strip a while back about a giant traveling colon that came to the kids' school, and of course Hammie thought it was a total riot. Guess it wasn't just...

  19. Abilify

    rph3664 replied to Orca's topic in Psychiatric

    What do you all think of Abilify IM? I've been told that Geodon IM becomes essentially worthless after the second dose, and have observed that it's been used a lot less in recent

  20. Holding our tongues vs things we really want to say!

    rph3664 replied to TraumaNurseRN's topic in Emergency

    And those people are even worse than the welfare abusers! I know such a family. The 9-year-old son cuts himself. The 6-year-old girl, about whom we're all surprised her mommy doesn't put on the...

  21. Anyone can get into Nursing.

    rph3664 replied to indiawhitaker's topic in General Nursing

    "Women's magazines" represent women about as realistically as the Oxygen Network. I can't imagine that men's magazines (I know what kind you're talking about) are very truthful

  22. Holding our tongues vs things we really want to say!

    rph3664 replied to TraumaNurseRN's topic in Emergency

    p.s. I have a relative whose ex-husband had to pay the kids' medical bills after they got divorced. I've known lots of couples who did this, and 99% of the time it's a perfectly legitimate way for a...

  23. Dave Barry's Colonoscopy

    rph3664 replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Everyone dreads the procedure itself, until we bring out that grocery bag with the gallon jug of dynamite in it. I once had a little old Italian lady squeal, "Mamma Mia!" (not the ABBA song, either!)...

  24. Dave Barry's Colonoscopy

    rph3664 replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    :lol:

  25. Holding our tongues vs things we really want to say!

    rph3664 replied to TraumaNurseRN's topic in Emergency

    "Oh, but I don't have time! I'm a single parent/working mother/etc." :vlin: We all know you got yourself pregnant either to trap a guy (unsuccessfully, and he couldn't pay child support if he wanted...