1-daughter at 16 2-son at 21 Not everyones best age but for me it has worked. I dont feel that I missed out on anything as a teenager and now my kids are now 18 and 15 I have the money to enjoy myself...
I work in the Midlands in England and to be perfectly honest Nurses in London do not get paid that much more than the rest of the UK, and the extra they get is swallowed up very rapidly by the higher...
I work all nights and my system depends on the number of nights off I have. Less than 2 = i sleep majority during the day and up at night (it usually means I have had split nights that week) 3+ = I...
Tievoli replied to Lachrymologist's topic in General Nursing
I have on numerous occassions......everything from incorrect prescriptions to talking down to me. One i can remember was a doc that ordered me to get "gelofusin stat" twelve times in two minutes and...
My thoughts exactly. I have never worked in OR but I have worked with my fair share of b***hes. There seem to be a great many people who would rather go to the bosses with their gripes than take you...
Well done I applaud you. Like the two other female posters I dont like whiners either. When I started reading this thread I thought you a bit egotistical/ idealisic but now you have learnt to deal...
OOOO i thought of another ................ you know you work nights when all your live chat friends are in the oposite hemesphere cos they are the only ones awake on your days off
Tievoli replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor
I have only been an RN for 3 yrs but so far I think I have figured that 90% of nurses I work with gross out at phlegm. Most of my colleagues (and myself) can deal with vomit blood gore and stools of...
Tievoli replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor
LOL The first nursing home I worked in had a similar patient.... She always had a tin of wrapped candy on her table but never seemed to eat any. One evening I went in to her room to take her supper...
Tievoli replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor
I had a patient who regularly pressed the call light to ask me where his eye mask was (one of those things to shut out the light).......................it was usually pushed up onto his forhead where...