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rph3664

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

    rph3664 replied to squeakykitty's topic in Emergency

    Have you seen the Geico commercial with the talking Mrs. Butterworth's

  2. Too Busy to.....

    rph3664 replied to DesertRoseAZ's topic in General Nursing

    When I took a retail pharmacy job, one of my friends suggested I get an indwelling catheter with a leg

  3. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    you mean dakin's solution.......never mind. jay leno's "headlines" once featured an old magazine ad which described how a woman "restored harmony to my marriage" by using lysol. but seriously, in the...

  4. Relationships vs Gastic Bypass Surgery

    rph3664 replied to diva_nurse's topic in General Nursing

    That hasn't been what I've seen. The divorcing women I have known have almost always been viewed as , at least to their face, no matter how obvious it is that it wasn't all his fault. I learned the...

  5. Relationships vs Gastic Bypass Surgery

    rph3664 replied to diva_nurse's topic in General Nursing

    maybe things are different where you are, but i've observed a double standard regarding a spouse leaving, when the separation wasn't a mutual decision. if a man leaves, he's a jerk. case closed. if...

  6. Relationships vs Gastic Bypass Surgery

    rph3664 replied to diva_nurse's topic in General Nursing

    BW, keep in mind that you're only getting one side of this, and only the surface. Plus, she said he mentioned to her SIX MONTHS AGO that he wasn't happy and wanted out. A psychiatric evaluation is...

  7. Relationships vs Gastic Bypass Surgery

    rph3664 replied to diva_nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't experienced it personally, but I do know that it's not uncommon for a marriage to end, or at the very least be quite strained, when one person loses an enormous amount of weight. This also...

  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

    I had meant to hit "quote" the first time. Oh, well. The Amish are clean; they just get BO later in the

  9. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    rph3664 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    To quote Nurse Ratched: "If you won't take it orally, I'm sure we can find some other way for you to take it." (we don't have a mooning

  10. 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

    The Amish in my area, and the less modern Mennonites, do not use deodorant. Were those people from one of those

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

    rph3664 replied to squeakykitty's topic in Emergency

    Did she not understand that you're supposed to remove the old one? We've had experiences with patients who didn't remove patches, or put the new patch on top of the old one. This most commonly...

  12. Job Interview: Check Writing Legibility?

    rph3664 replied to Music in My Heart's topic in General Nursing

    :sofahider We once had a doctor whose time there was just about up as he was leaving for other reasons, and he was pulling this crap and then refusing to answer pages and slamming the phone down on...

  13. Working in Psych and then being a patient in your unit!

    rph3664 replied to rn4ever?'s topic in Psychiatric

    p.s. These people have all had multiple admissions. I don't go looking for this; as a pharmacist, I have access to the complete patient roster. The local police blotter has a lot of familiar names...

  14. Working in Psych and then being a patient in your unit!

    rph3664 replied to rn4ever?'s topic in Psychiatric

    This has happened more than once where I work. I can't believe they would even want to, because of privacy issues, but this is a rural area and the nearest psych facility is 100 miles in any...

  15. Curious about PP Methergine use

    rph3664 replied to JaneyW's topic in Ob/Gyn

    My experience is that PO Methergine is almost never used post partum, but is very commonly used after miscarriages. I rarely see it here in the hospital, but when I worked in retail pharmacy, we...

  16. How do you deal with Non-Urgent Patients

    rph3664 replied to mom2michael's topic in Emergency

    Maybe I've mentioned this in this thread (I know it's somewhere on the board), but I have a distant relative who got divorced some years back, and part of the agreement was that he had to pay the...

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

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    When "America's Funniest Home Videos" debuted, ERs got LOTS of business from people trying to get on that show. Ditto "Jackass" and now

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

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    They may provide insurance now, but unless you were in management, until very recently that was not true. And it might be so expensive, many people can't afford

  19. Funny Names

    rph3664 replied to nurserynurse55's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    This really isn't funny, but there's another "strange baby name" thread on here. One nurse told about a black couple who wanted to name their son Aryan Nation. She explained what the Aryan Nation...

  20. "A Walk to Beautiful"

    rph3664 replied to rph3664's topic in Ob/Gyn

    There is a longer version of this film, and I put it in my Netflix queue even though it hasn't been released yet. It features two other women, and longer interviews with the doctors and other staff....

  21. CPOE Barley Scratching the Surface

    rph3664 replied to rninformatics's topic in Nursing Informatics

    My hospital is pushing CPOE, but they used the psych department as the pilot and trust me, the problems this caused FAR outweighed the advantages! The biggest problem was the doctors not having a clue...

  22. Any current/former nursing students have unsupportive families?

    rph3664 replied to crazyco's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry to hear your parents are unsupportive, but as an older student, you will have an easier time getting financial aid, and you will be more focused and disciplined. I started pharmacy school 2...

  23. They sent us a 1 week postpartum pt...we do openhearts!

    rph3664 replied to MIRockstarRN's topic in General Nursing

    Was the regular ICU full? My hospital used the cardiac unit as overflow a few months ago when our regular ICU filled up. This has never happened in the 4 years that we've had a

  24. Trying to research if this baby death actually happened...

    rph3664 replied to justme1972's topic in General Nursing

    I just remembered the title.

  25. Butt kissing management

    rph3664 replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    I have never heard of things like this going on at the hospital where I work, but then again I'm cooped up in the basement and not in the trenches like you folks. When I worked at the grocery store...