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rph3664

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

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    there are several "grossest nursing story" threads. you should post this on one of

  2. Oddest things found in a patient!

    rph3664 replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    :lol_hitti That's

  3. Nursing School with no support from hubby and 4 kids...Can it be done?

    rph3664 replied to WanaBeeMe's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Revisiting this board reminded me of a man I work with who has a baby due in a few weeks, and he shows NO interest in it and has strongly implied that he does not intend to support it on any level,...

  4. Oddest things found in a patient!

    rph3664 replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    How about one baby and two placentas of equal size, joined by a few blood

  5. Would You Accept Swine Flu Vaccine?

    rph3664 replied to pagandeva2000's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I'm also old enough to remember the Guillain-Barre thing (12, yes, but I did know about it!) and I will not take it unless it's mandatory, which I just don't see happening. I do take a regular flu...

  6. Nursing School with no support from hubby and 4 kids...Can it be done?

    rph3664 replied to WanaBeeMe's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    What do you keep a man around for who doesn't even take care of the family financially? My advice is to get divorced and then get your nursing degree, even if you have to go on welfare to do it....

  7. Public Health in Ghana, per Obama

    rph3664 replied to Vito Andolini's topic in General Nursing

    The Gates Foundation is already doing a lot of work in this regard, especially concerning polio eradication. I wonder what period of time this $60 billion will encompass, and will it be used for...

  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

    Gee whiz, TYVM. :icon_roll j/k - but I don't enjoy dealing with these types either, especially if they're

  9. Was anyone else shocked with this propofol story?

    rph3664 replied to moonshadeau's topic in MICU, SICU

    We in the pharmacy have been making some rather warped jokes about this ("So THAT'S why his skin turned white!"), that sort of thing. The nurse said that he had been doing research online for sleep...

  10. low-literacy med handout for coumadin

    rph3664 replied to KateRN1's topic in Patient Education

    Call the pharmacy. We get requests for things like this all the time. (this is assuming it's

  11. Disgruntled ex-employee

    rph3664 replied to debi49's topic in General Nursing

    We had to do that with one of our technicians a couple years ago, although it wasn't so much her as her boyfriend, which was the main reason she was fired. So who does she send in to pick up some...

  12. Disgruntled ex-employee

    rph3664 replied to debi49's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked in places (and not necessarily in health care) where ex-employees were banned from the premises for whatever reason, so this is not

  13. Altering a patients chart

    rph3664 replied to sunkissed75's topic in General Nursing

    I know of two incidents where a chart was altered, and we had the earlier chart as proof that it was done. In one case, it involved a lawsuit, and since the records had been altered, the patient got a...

  14. Things that leave you stunned.

    rph3664 replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    I think you've mentioned him in other threads. It's DEFINITELY a miracle that he doesn't have AIDS now, after doing all

  15. 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

    Did you get the dean involved? What ended up happening? The year before I graduated, there was a woman who was pregnant and due during one of her clinical rotations. Her preceptor, a then-childless...

  16. Need advice about leaving a position.

    rph3664 replied to NeoPediRN's topic in General Nursing

    How much money are you spending on gas and car maintenance? The time you spend commuting is valuable, if you think about it. And ruining your health isn't good for anybody either. Take the new job,...

  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

    OT: A few years ago, my co-worker's daughter had her hair cut for Locks of Love, and Mom took FIFTY-FOUR pictures of this. And she made sure every one of us saw all of them, too. Must have kept a...

  18. 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

    A lot of them were raised with the belief that they had to "go" at least once a day, and if they didn't, they were given laxatives and enemas. I predict that you will see less of that as the baby...

  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

    Nothing new. My mother's 75 and she said her grandmother was the same way after having a stroke, back in the

  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

    You never know where some people are coming from. I did clinicals on an organ transplant floor, and while I was there, they had a patient who rejected his kidney because he deliberately threw up all...

  21. "Atypical" Nurse? How discouraging...

    rph3664 replied to Darjeeling22's topic in General Nursing

    More than once, I have told someone who wondered why I wasn't married and/or a parent, "What for? So I can be as miserable as you?"

  22. Reading alot of posts discussing "A" nursing students vs "C" nursing students

    rph3664 replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Students

    I wish I could thank you 10,000 times for this! The valedictorians of the classes before and after me - any workplace would be better off with no pharmacist than with these losers. And the...

  23. Dangerous nurses

    rph3664 replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Insulin aspart is a semisynthetic short acting insulin, sold under the brand name Novolog. It's probably been out for about 5

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

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    I once read a blurb in a medical journal about a person who actually made it to the operating room; the surgeon removed a normal appendix, and guess what the person really had? Rocky Mountain spotted...

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

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    I think they meant Medicaid. Because someone who would do that obviously isn't paying for