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Angle and Brain are my most hated names for new babies.

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 heard all my life.

I was working at a residential treatment center for seriously mentally ill. I had to stay as relief called off and my boss had told me it was all right to rest in the lounge chair. Fortunitely for me I'm the type of person where everything has to be ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 about.

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

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 someone comes to join me at a table in lunchroom a...

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 blank look and then they continued to call it ori...

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 hospital.

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 few months later he had no trouble getting on with a...

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 time in those tiny rooms and to interfere with the ...

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 wet.

As a young woman was being wheeled from labor room to delivery room she was screaming "I changed my mind.....I changed my mind".

We had a man in the Alzheimers unit get let out by the air conditioner man. He walked to a nearby apartment building and knocked on a womans door. Told her he was there to buy the musical instrument she had for sale. She knew he was confused and aske...

My husband had a man come from his room naked with a plastic bag from the trash can on each foot and one stuffed up his butt and asked if he was doing this right. He had a hard time stopping laughing. I had a patient cover her bed entirely with dentu...

One lady came walking into the dayroom in a sheer nightgown covered with BM and asked if she was in the right church. Found woman in bathroom on toilet who had unrolled a complete large roll of TP and wrapped herself up in it like a mummy. It was fun...

I had one saying the air conditioner was chanting revelations.

I have worked with nurses in their 70's and a couple in their 80's. My spouse is 65 and still working in hospital.

How wonderful. Congratulations. Any time my husband returns from the hospital with some bit of news I have ALWAYS read it here first.

When I did home care my agency made us wear scrubs. All had to be purchased from them and the same color. When I went to the grocery store for the patient I was in my work clothes. Wouldn't have been any dirtier than if I worked in street clothes. I ...

In our facility we have a pool of people hired just for that purpose. They come in and go to any type of appointment. Usually somone who doesn't need to work a lot and apprecaites being the advocate for the patient at the doctor, dentist, etc that th...