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rph3664

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  1. Diagnoses you never thought you'd see?

    rph3664 replied to KarafromPhilly's topic in General Nursing

    Did the men develop dementia too? There was once a time when this was the most common reason for admission to mental

  2. Diagnoses you never thought you'd see?

    rph3664 replied to KarafromPhilly's topic in General Nursing

    What STD would cause something like this? Was this baby truly anencephalic, or did it have hydranencephaly? There's a child in my town with this disorder, but AFAIK, the parents were told that this...

  3. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    rph3664 replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Maybe that was a bit of revenge for all those nasty diapers she had to

  4. 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 THAT? My parents were both born in 1933, and my grandmothers got chloroform and it was headed for obsolescence at that time! I've heard that doctors - male or female - make the worst...

  5. Diagnoses you never thought you'd see?

    rph3664 replied to KarafromPhilly's topic in General Nursing

    How did the baby get botulism from Karo syrup? It's honey that people need to be concerned with,

  6. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Dakin's Solution is highly diluted bleach, although it's used nowadays for wound care. And Lysol was used as a douche, both for hygiene and also for STD treatment. Women had it diluted in something...

  7. "The Death Shift" (true crime book about nurse/serial killer)

    rph3664 replied to rph3664's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting. But health care workers need to know about people like this so they can be on the lookout for them. For my profession, Robert Courtney would be an excellent example of something like...

  8. "The Death Shift" (true crime book about nurse/serial killer)

    rph3664 replied to rph3664's topic in General Nursing

    The drug she used was succinylcholine. One can only imagine the horror those babies experienced. When she worked at the hospital, she also used heparin and digoxin in part because they take longer...

  9. "The Death Shift" (true crime book about nurse/serial killer)

    rph3664 replied to rph3664's topic in General Nursing

    That story is mentioned in the book because one of the doctors there was also involved with this case, having trained in

  10. "The Death Shift" (true crime book about nurse/serial killer)

    rph3664 replied to rph3664's topic in General Nursing

    Dr. Kathleen Holland was a solo practitioner and Genene Jones was her nurse. Jones was making babies and nonverbal older children crash because (among other things) she wanted their local hospital,...

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

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    I have a relative who, when she was married to her first husband, found a way to have surgery at least once a year. I asked someone else if he was a pervert and she did this to have an excuse to fend...

  12. What were your job interview red flags?

    rph3664 replied to Destiny12's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    How long ago was this? Questions like this have been massively illegal for 25 years that I know

  13. 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

    My objection to parenting tests is that very often, it's not obvious who the worst parents are. Probably the worst parents I know personally are a married couple who are highly educated and earn...

  14. Nurses not speaking english at work

    rph3664 replied to Guest296136's topic in General Nursing

    Because hospitals think they can pay them less? That's my

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

    rph3664 replied to squeakykitty's topic in Emergency

    About the fork in the stomach (toothbrushes too): This is not uncommon among

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

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    It's possible that Lina Medina, the Peruvian girl who gave birth at age 5, had a birth certificate. Even if she didn't, I would imagine that they could have used wrist x-rays or looked at her teeth...

  17. 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

    Was this a "Babywise" mother? I once worked with a woman who believed that children, even breastfed newborns, should be fed on a schedule, and if it wasn't "time" would give her kids a bottle of sugar...

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

    rph3664 replied to klcrn1987's topic in Emergency

    I've already mentioned this here, but I believe that at least some of the women who go to the ER for a pregnancy test are doing this because they believe they can get an abortion if it's

  19. 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

    This was true prior to HIPAA. It was just plain old patient

  20. 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'm a woman, and I shudder to think of the things I might have done had there been a You Tube when I was

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

    rph3664 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    People who go to Third World countries to do medical care see things like this all the

  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

    Pharmacies can and do ban customers, just like any other retail business. Remember that we are allowed to refuse to fill any prescription, for any reason. Any town or region will have a phone tree...

  23. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    How do people like that find sex partners, anyway? He wasn't a pimp, was he? I recently saw one of those shows about the LTC for obese people that had an 800-pound guy on a ventilator, and the nurse...

  24. VBAC for a Lady Who Has Had 2 Previous C-sections

    rph3664 replied to BabyRN2Be's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I once worked at such a facility that DID do a VBAC on a woman with exstrophy of the bladder, which was why she had the first section to begin with. This was not a planned incident, however, because...

  25. New Diabetic Kiddo

    rph3664 replied to Keepstanding's topic in School

    And for middle-aged Type IIs, eating candy by the pound, smoking, defiantly refusing to take your medicine, etc. won't make it go away either. It can definitely make your eyesight, legs, kidney...