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rph3664

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  1. 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 know a very sweet elderly woman, who even appears to have all her faculties and is clean, who smells like a combination of BO, urine, cooking odors, and God knows what else. I told my parents about...

  2. Did you ever have such a bad day, that you regretted becoming a nurse?

    rph3664 replied to linda2097's topic in General Nursing

    Have you ever worked a 9-5 desk job? I have, and it's not all it's cracked up to be. As a pharmacist, I had one job that was such a horrible experience, after I was fired after 4 months (3 months and...

  3. Lesbian L and D nurse

    rph3664 replied to AudreyHurston's topic in Ob/Gyn

    If you are concerned about your co-workers asking "Where's your boyfriend", don't be. I am a heterosexual female for whom dating is nearly impossible for reasons I won't go into here (and I have...

  4. Something fun: What would you REALLY like to say to new PARENTS?

    rph3664 replied to BabyLady's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I didn't have kids but would probably have done the same kinds of things. One time, I was at my brother's house, and one of his kids dropped her pacifier on the floor. I took it over to the sink...

  5. Something fun: What would you REALLY like to say to new PARENTS?

    rph3664 replied to BabyLady's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I once temped at a place where a pregnant tech told me that she wanted to buy "What To Expect When You're Expecting" but she and her husband couldn't afford it. And this was a PLANNED pregnancy! I...

  6. Something fun: What would you REALLY like to say to new PARENTS?

    rph3664 replied to BabyLady's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Not long ago, there was a 17-day-old baby in the ER. Visit reason? Umbilical cord fell off. :sstrs: I'm guessing the parents thought it would just sort of shrivel up and be resorbed, like an...

  7. Lesbian L and D nurse

    rph3664 replied to AudreyHurston's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I read it. Thanks. As for the man who didn't want women to see him naked, that he was tortured makes perfectly good sense. When I worked in Waterloo, Iowa which has a large Bosnian refugee...

  8. Lesbian L and D nurse

    rph3664 replied to AudreyHurston's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I once knew a man who did, and then wondered why nobody would hire him. True, this was over 20 years ago, but despite being told REPEATEDLY that using job interviews as a soapbox was not a good idea,...

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

    rph3664 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    My 9-year-old niece wants to be a doctor. Reads age-appropriate medical books for fun and found a picture of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman physician, online and printed it off and hung it on...

  10. Prospective male nurse with a catch

    rph3664 replied to mowski1214's topic in General Nursing

    Physician's assistant might be a better choice for you. And there's always pharmacy but you would be in school for 4 years, at the very

  11. Dangerous nurses

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

    Was this on a weekend at a critical access facility with no pharmacy coverage? It wasn't just nursing that dropped the ball here. I haven't read the entire thread, but we have a lot of nurses at our...

  12. Natasha Richardson's TBI and demise

    rph3664 replied to rhon91's topic in General Nursing

    The past few days, it seems that every head injury has been admitted to ICU. Guess the doctors are erring on the side of caution. I've been an R.E.M. fan since the beginning of their career, and...

  13. The annoying classmates

    rph3664 replied to Java Mama's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    As recently as 1980 or so, some colleges had ashtrays in the armrests. I graduated from high school in 1981 and got a job in an office because I didn't want to go to college right away - a decision I...

  14. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    rph3664 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Almost as bad are the people who are always broke because they do fun things first and pay their bills with whatever's left over, or whose spouses are so worthless, the children are not safe around...

  15. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    rph3664 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    There is a difference between gently guiding a child with words and actions, and smacking and throwing them! No wonder this child was violent - who do you think taught him how to act that way, from...

  16. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    rph3664 replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Those are the people who come in with a BS off the meter, and haven't taken their insulin or anything else in months even though they fill and pick up their prescriptions, and then expect everyone to...

  17. The annoying classmates

    rph3664 replied to Java Mama's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I can probably top all of your stories. When I took biology at a community college, about 20 years ago, I had a classmate who chewed tobacco and sat next to a sink so he could spit in it every few...

  18. Nurses working harder than doctors?

    rph3664 replied to lovehospital's topic in General Nursing

    The CREW got paid $2,000 for the day's work. That $2,000 included the price of the shingles themselves. And there's a reason why so many roofers look like ex-convicts. It's because they are....

  19. Nurses working harder than doctors?

    rph3664 replied to lovehospital's topic in General Nursing

    A lot of doctors don't make the kind of money the general public thinks they do. Maybe he's just setting up practice, is having difficulty getting reimbursed (Medicaid is especially challenging in my...

  20. Nurses working harder than doctors?

    rph3664 replied to lovehospital's topic in General Nursing

    More than once, we have had nurses working in the pharmacy because they were on light duty and nothing suitable was available (for example, nobody in the facility needed a sitter) and all of them have...

  21. Things you would love to tell your management and get away with

    rph3664 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    If one of your employees suspects that a co-worker, who happens to be the step/son of two prominent members of the medical staff and this is the only way he got hired, is repeatedly coming to work...

  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

    Rifampin and fusidic acid? Sounds like someone got their medical degree from Google

  23. Natasha Richardson's TBI and demise

    rph3664 replied to rhon91's topic in General Nursing

    I had wondered about that, but like everything else, making this public is ultimately the family's decision. It's always possible that she wasn't a candidate, for whatever reason, or did not want to...

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

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Not smart enough to know how to use a pregnancy test, and now they might have a baby? Niiiiiiice. How long ago was the head lice kid? Nowadays, people like that would know all about pharmacies...

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

    rph3664 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    No, it was one of those far too common situations where neither parents should have custody. The overwhelming majority of divorced women I know want their kids to have a good relationship with their...