rph3664

rph3664

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  1. I Dislocated My Kidney I Can't Poop

    rph3664 replied to SDS_RN's topic in General Nursing

    You don't have a baby with your pooper. She probably doesn't know that,

  2. I Dislocated My Kidney I Can't Poop

    rph3664 replied to SDS_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Wonder if she knows how she got her

  3. I Dislocated My Kidney I Can't Poop

    rph3664 replied to SDS_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Has anyone here ever heard of and/or read "Intern" by Doctor X? It was a huge best-seller in the mid-1960s and is long out of print but relatively easy to find, and is a diary kept by a new doctor...

  4. Unit Secretary tells me she regularly snoops electronically

    rph3664 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I meant IRS. Oops. I've said this elsewhere, but my dad sometimes asks me if there are any interesting patients in the hospital. I always tell him, "Sure! Can't tell you about them,

  5. Unit Secretary tells me she regularly snoops electronically

    rph3664 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was going to add this but had to leave so I didn't. My sister's co-workers learned their lesson about why medical records are private. And our brother has never worked in health care, but he was...

  6. Unit Secretary tells me she regularly snoops electronically

    rph3664 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    why? my sister's friends learned their lesson about why they shouldn't be nosy because they had discovered things their friends and acquaintances hadn't shared with them, and they stopped doing it. i...

  7. Unit Secretary tells me she regularly snoops electronically

    rph3664 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    When my sister and I were in college in the early 1990s, we both worked at the university's hospital - I in the pharmacy and she in the billing office. Some of her co-workers were looking up friends'...

  8. Canadian RPN moving to Illinois

    rph3664 replied to LPNjo's topic in International Nursing

    I just want to warn you that it can take seemingly FOREVER to get an Illinois license. The bureaucracy is a nightmare, and I swear they simply don't answer their phones. Can't say you haven't been...

  9. Do your residents get a lot of visitors?

    rph3664 replied to Lovely_RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    My mom once worked with a woman who had a grandson in an LTC, and she was his only visitor. He was profoundly handicapped because of meningitis at age 2 months; his parents placed him there because...

  10. Do your residents get a lot of visitors?

    rph3664 replied to Lovely_RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    when i lived in my old city, there was a woman at my church whose severely autistic son lived in an ltc, and she had not visited him for many years for precisely this reason. it was simply too...

  11. Bad GPA - history of F's and retaking classes

    rph3664 replied to NICU RN wannabe's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I've known a lot of people who flunked out of college when they went right after high school, but they went back a few years later (usually, but not always, to a different school) and since they were...

  12. "I have kids! I need to come in late, need more sick time, etc."

    rph3664 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    I have heard of people who didn't show up for work because they had a problem with a service animal or with livestock, but that's different because those aren't pets. As for eldercare, that would...

  13. "I have kids! I need to come in late, need more sick time, etc."

    rph3664 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    How old was the daughter? It sounds like this woman shouldn't have had goldfish, let alone

  14. Parents of kids with autism, please read

    rph3664 replied to LydiaNN's topic in Pediatric

    CNN right now is talking about a family that got a $5 million settlement because they believe their daughter was damaged by vaccines. It sounds legit (not only did her behavior change, she even...

  15. "I have kids! I need to come in late, need more sick time, etc."

    rph3664 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    Our campus is now smoke-free, and there are two employees in our department who get in their cars and drive off campus so they can smoke on their lunch break. Beforehand, this whole smoking thing...

  16. Why do people think the hospital is like the Holiday Inn Express?!!! LONG...

    rph3664 replied to shoegalRN's topic in General Nursing

    Has anyone here read the book "Nurse", which came out about 30 years ago, is still in print, and was the basis for a short-lived TV series? There was a story about a woman from a wealthy neighborhood...

  17. Bye Bye Discovery Health

    rph3664 replied to amya215's topic in General Nursing

    with respect... i actually think becoming a productive member of society is incredibly successful! one does not need academic qualifications, loads of money, being "famous" etc, to be a highly...

  18. Getting Percocet thru a Port-a-cath!!!!

    rph3664 replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    I once had a customer who doused herself with lighter fluid, and lit it, so she could get drugs. She died of something else (probably related to abusing her body in general) not long afterwards. I...

  19. "I have kids! I need to come in late, need more sick time, etc."

    rph3664 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    That's outrageous! Being family friendly is nice, but that's going way too far! Are fathers allowed to do this too, or is it mothers only? I haven't read the entire thread

  20. "I have kids! I need to come in late, need more sick time, etc."

    rph3664 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    This was in Iowa, and was close to 20 years ago so maybe things have changed in that

  21. Getting Percocet thru a Port-a-cath!!!!

    rph3664 replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    Munchausen's Syndrome,

  22. "I have kids! I need to come in late, need more sick time, etc."

    rph3664 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    The worst ones in this regard are the people who went to an expensive private college and majored in things like art history, women's studies, or any kind of literature with no provisions made for...

  23. Did anyone read the People story about Christina Aguilera?

    rph3664 replied to rph3664's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Funny thing is, I have heard that J.Lo's twins were born 15 minutes apart, which implies strongly that she DID NOT have a c-section. Now, if she (or anyone else) had needed one, that's another story....

  24. Some people will do anything for money.

    rph3664 replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    The church had papers backing up this pledge thing. He's not the only criminal to hide behind the church pews, either. Dennis Rader was elected president of his congregation shortly before his...

  25. Bye Bye Discovery Health

    rph3664 replied to amya215's topic in General Nursing

    I can't imagine who watches TLC any more; all I ever see on there is vehicle, house, and person makeovers. How many of those could anyone watch? And the weird thing about Lifetime is that their...