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  1. Things nursing school FAILED to tell us

    beachmom replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in Nursing Humor

    I never knew men could have "innies," and I'm not talking about belly buttons. Once I had to call a urology nurse to find the opening to insert a catheter in a

  2. Calling All Mothers

    beachmom replied to rnmomtobe2010's topic in General Nursing

    You could pay a babysitter while you go elsewhere to study. Or if you don't want so much time away from your kids, higher an older child to play with them in your home. I was about ten years old, and...

  3. question about paralyzed child??

    beachmom replied to feebebe23's topic in Pediatric

    I knew a quadriplegic man who had total feeling in his body but no movement at all. He said after his accident he was numb, but the feeling came back at some

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

    beachmom replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Man's call light goes off. Nurse answers and sees that he didn't ring his light on purpose, but he was "pleasuring himself" on the call

  5. Reporting resident abuse to local office of aging....

    beachmom replied to luvmy2angels's topic in General Nursing

    Before you sneak in a camera and tape recorder, be sure of your laws. We aren't allowed to photograph patients. I think it's a HIPPA thing. The patient has to sign a permission slip to be...

  6. Do moms ever get upset when they have to leave baby to be monitored in the nursery?

    beachmom replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Ob/Gyn

    At the hospital where I had my last baby nine years ago, babies only spend a very short time in the nursery being checked out, etc., and then they room with mom the rest of the time. There are rarely...

  7. Phenergan Supp given to toddler; child dies

    beachmom replied to Mom23's topic in Emergency

    All our gastroenteritis peds get boluses and maintenence fluids. NPO until no vomiting for several hours. Then they start on clears and advance diet as tolerated. Occasionally the older ones get...

  8. C-Diff

    beachmom replied to Butternut's topic in General Nursing

    We test for it often when a person has diarrhea, but we rarely have positives here. I think certain resistent organisms are regional. We get lots of MRSA in our area, both hospital acquired and...

  9. Nurses as Patients: What was your best/worst experience as a patient?

    beachmom replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Worst - I was in the recovery room after a c-section. I guess the epidural anesthesia must have migrated upward because my tongue kept closing off my airway. I was afraid to sleep because I couldn't...

  10. Can you believe this???

    beachmom replied to rachelaleanRN2B's topic in General Nursing

    It's not just our profession. My husband worked at Wal-Mart and was sick (and contagious) with a doctor's excuse, and they counted his absence as "unexcused" so he had to use PTO not sick pay. My...

  11. Divided We Fail: The Need for National Stem Cell Funding

    beachmom replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Why do we have to make embryos for the purpose of destroying them in research? It's just wrong. We can get stem cells from other sources. It's harder, but in my opinion, it's worth the

  12. Worst visitors ever

    beachmom replied to Laught3r's topic in Nursing Humor

    We had a pt. with a super low sodium, on a water restriction, so we posted a sign "no free water." The pt's roommate had a visitor who was irate that we would "charge for water" and proceeded to...

  13. Stupid things your school does/did

    beachmom replied to MountainMan's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, I thought our nursing program was unreasonable. (I had calculus in college, but that didn't satisfy the algebra requirement. Luckily, they let me take the placement test.) So did your instructors...

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

    beachmom replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    This is my cousin's story. An Alzheimer's pt. wandered off from her home. She fell behind someone's woodpile, couldn't get up and wasn't found for three days. She, of course, was filthy and ill from...

  15. Do you use a venoscope?

    beachmom replied to SillyLilly's topic in General Nursing

    This web site sells them for $175 and has good instructions on how to use them. Has anyone used them? Do they really help? https://slacoste.powweb.com/content/veno_instructions.php If it helps, it...

  16. Are you prepared for Avian Flu?

    beachmom replied to Gizzey's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a 150-bed hospital in pediatrics. We ship out all our peds ICU pts. Our hospital recently participated in a mock pandemic. My manager wrote out all these elaborate plans of what to do. One...

  17. What's your holiday bonus?

    beachmom replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    Bonus? Now that I'm a nurse at the hospital, we get free dinner in the cafeteria if we work the holiday, and time and a half. No bonus. When I did medical transcription for a doctor, he always gave us...

  18. Pregnant but Negative Urine Preg?

    beachmom replied to RunnerRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I had a friend with three pregnancies who tested negative on the urine tests at first. She said she usually felt the baby kick before she tested

  19. Cold weather causing pneumonia? *vent*

    beachmom replied to wannabesedated's topic in General Nursing

    Whenever I get chilled for any length of time, especially if I am wet too, I will catch a cold. If I'm in the cold but bundled well, I won't catch cold. I think it is because those flu and cold...

  20. Eleven pound baby!

    beachmom replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

    My midwife was from India. She said they never have big babies there. She said babies were rarely more than 6 pounds. Must be

  21. Eleven pound baby!

    beachmom replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

    My mother-in-law had 11 and 12 pounders. Her last pregnancy was twins, each 7 pounds! (my husband was one) She popped them all out without any problems. She said her body was made to have babies. She...

  22. Is 26 too old to go back to school?

    beachmom replied to anouk's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated at age 43. When I was in school, there was a man who was a logger at age 50 when the logging company downsized, and he was without a job. He was unsure whether to go back to school. He...

  23. Is there power in the color white?

    beachmom replied to bbfw2's topic in General Nursing

    Who wears uniforms? In our society those lower in the heirarchy wear the uniforms. The service workers wear uniforms, the doctors and administrators do not. I was told that going to scrubs instead of...

  24. Your Worst Mistake

    beachmom replied to aurora_borealis's topic in General Nursing

    Judging from the number of posts of med errors involving insulin, I can see why many places have the policy of two nurses checking insulin. We do at our hospital. I've noticed if I just tell the pt....

  25. Your Worst Mistake

    beachmom replied to aurora_borealis's topic in General Nursing

    I was a new pediatric nurse floating to the oncology dept. While only certified oncology nurses can give chemo, any nurse can give the rescue drugs given immediately afterwards to protect the organs...