azgirl

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1. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   azgirl replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

   Angle and Brain are my most hated names for new

2. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

   azgirl replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

   I know how AngelfireRN feels. When I moved from Kentucky to California as a child I would say hitch in my getalong and trying to come down with a cold. No end to the torment I got saying things I had...

3. Medication Aides

   azgirl replied to R.L.Silva's topic in General Nursing

   I worked for an assisted living facility that had the caregivers watch a movie about the 5 rights and gave them certificates to pass

4. Your boss insists on employees taking flu vaccine

   azgirl replied to seenitallERnurse's topic in General Nursing

   I got the worst flu I have ever had right after getting a flu shot. Would never do that

5. er visitors...a funny

   azgirl replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

   Years ago when they were called stewardesses there was a requirement to be a

6. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

   azgirl replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

   Another one I hear a lot is "I could care less" instead of I could't care

7. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

   azgirl replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

   I had to leave a game room tonight because someone had the name

8. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

   azgirl replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

   I had that name error in a book I read recently. Really threw me off as I had to look back in the previous chapter to see just who they were talking

9. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

   azgirl replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

   I had always heard it was the mispronunciation of Acadian that made

10. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    azgirl replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    When I went to school often was pronounced ofen. Now newsreaders and any tv show has offTen. It used to drive me nuts and I checked the dictionary and now that is correct. Now I have a question. When...

11. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    azgirl replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Orientated instead of oriented. Prostrate instead of prostate. That one drives me nuts. I have even corrected people who tell me I'm being orientated to the floor. Telling them its oriented and get a...

12. er visitors...a funny

    azgirl replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

    Just had a relative tell me of her friend who packs a bag when she goes to the doctor, just in case he wants to send her to the

13. How to solve the shortage of new grad jobs?

    azgirl replied to BonnieSc's topic in General Nursing

    When my husband graduated from nursing school in 1993 it was the only time we had ever seen ads in the paper saying "no newgrads please". Most of his class had to go into long term care or rehab. A...

14. er visitors...a funny

    azgirl replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

    I'm so amazed that your ICU lets in anyone who wants to come in. When my mother was a patient recently it was only two visitors at a time. I think yours is very unusual to allow 15 to 20 people at a...

15. Funniest thing a confused pt. has told you...

    azgirl replied to GrnHonu99's topic in General Nursing

    I had a male resident who would be upset that someone spilled something in the chair he sat in and he didn't know it and now his pants were all