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  1. Older than dirt quiz

    RN-PA replied to KaraLea's topic in Nursing Humor

    I'm older than dirt. I got a "17"...

  2. What Freaks You Out?

    RN-PA replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    NH = Nursing

  3. Let's hear it for second shift?

    RN-PA replied to huggietoes's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked part-time 1445-2315 on Med/Surg the past 7 years and like evening shift best. As efiebke says, it can be the busiest shift and co-workers who've left evening shift for day or night shift...

  4. What do you do to get past the 2am slump

    RN-PA replied to peaceful2100's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked nights on Med-Surg, I hardly ever had a slump because we were almost always so dang busy. As some others have mentioned, my slump also would come around 0700, waiting for day shift to...

  5. Gotta good "poop" story? I do.

    RN-PA replied to st4304's topic in General Nursing

    I'm embarrassed to say how much I've enjoyed and laughed so hard at these poop stories; my hubby loves 'em, too! When I worked night shift 8 years ago, I once had a patient in his early 90's,...

  6. Gotta good "poop" story? I do.

    RN-PA replied to st4304's topic in General Nursing

    I posted this poop story on the "What freaks you out" thread https://allnurses.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2717&perpage=20&display=&pagenumber=1 back in January and it is so...

  7. How do you deal with a patient slapping you?

    RN-PA replied to AmyRN1227's topic in General Nursing

    At the LTC facility where I worked right out of nursing school, I was spat on by a resident with demntia who'd been eating chocolate right before I had to sneak up behind her to give an Ativan...

  8. HELP......I'm having a "dumb" moment!

    RN-PA replied to duckie's topic in General Nursing

    I just looked up "death rattle" in my Taber's Medical Dictionary and I was surprised to see it listed there between "death rate" and "death with dignity": "death rattle. A sound heard in the throat of...

  9. Vomit and other icky stuff

    RN-PA replied to JPKC26's topic in General Nursing

    A PCT and her orientee were doing p.m. care for one of my patients who was on a tube feeding-- pt. was confused as well as a language barrier -- and I'd held her tube feeding a couple of hours...

  10. obituaries

    RN-PA replied to shannonRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yep. I check the obits every day, not only to see if patients' names appear, but also because I've lived in the same town much of my life and often recognize names of family members of people with...

  11. consequences of medication errors

    RN-PA replied to babsRN's topic in General Nursing

    Our hospital has a non-punitive policy for med errors. We do write up an incident report, call the doctor, and describe the error on the form and whether there was harm to the patient, any follow-up,...

  12. How old are you?

    RN-PA replied to Rhona's topic in General Students

    I want to reassure, encourage, and CONGRATULATE all of you who are just starting your nursing careers "a little later" in life. I started nursing school when I was 35 and I'm now 46-- been working as...

  13. Diarrhea! r/t nursing school?

    RN-PA replied to malau's topic in General Nursing

    I can totally relate, malau! :imbar I also struggled with diarrhea during nursing school, mainly on clinical days, but also in my first few years of working as a nurse. (And it's still my body's...

  14. Practical jokes at work

    RN-PA replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

    These are all so funny and mine are pretty tame by comparison. My first job out of nursing school was working evening shift in a LTC facility. I was then hired by a hospital 7 months later and on my...

  15. Nurses week Cheap gifts from admin.

    RN-PA replied to nilepoc's topic in General Nursing

    hapeewendy said: This sums up what everyone has been saying on this thread and says it best for me. Well-said, hapeewendy!

  16. Nurses week Cheap gifts from admin.

    RN-PA replied to nilepoc's topic in General Nursing

    Zumalong posted: :chuckle :rotfl: :kiss , Zumalong! (I especially lol'd at the tote bag handles going when the car keys with lame-o key chain went into it!) Many of these posts are so funny but at...

  17. Nurses week Cheap gifts from admin.

    RN-PA replied to nilepoc's topic in General Nursing

    I have to say that the hospital where I work now is pretty good to the nurses during nurses week. I think they have drawings for movie tickets and the like; they give out gourmet dessert-ish treats...

  18. What Freaks You Out?

    RN-PA replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

    :imbar :rotfl: , ktwlpn!!! Many of the things I've read here and elsewhere on this board I call "Floor-kisser" shifts-- When I finally get home, I get down on my knees and kiss the kitchen floor,...

  19. Board Certification for Med/Surg

    RN-PA replied to nightingale's topic in Medical-Surgical

    ShannonRN, I did a Google search and found this site which lists many specialty certifications and the corresponding initials. (I couldn't find Med-Surg initial there which is "RNC"-- RN Certified)...

  20. Board Certification for Med/Surg

    RN-PA replied to nightingale's topic in Medical-Surgical

    RN-PA said: I posted this a while back, LA-NJRN, and I wanted to re-post it to remind you that I passed without studying very much at all, compared to how much I studied in nursing school. Believe...

  21. pillow therapy

    RN-PA replied to thisnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Whenever I see a thread started by you, thisnurse, I eagerly click on it knowing I will be alternately wildly entertained, horrified, laughing, gasping, and empathizing/agreeing with all you say and...

  22. Monster CNA Charged With Murder By Windshield

    RN-PA replied to Cascadians's topic in General Nursing

    I checked in my thesaurus for words appropriate to describe the horror of this crime, and I couldn't find ones strong enough to express the way I feel about this story. :( Pure, unadulterated

  23. Nursing Home Activities

    RN-PA replied to Vicki30CNA's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I worked in a LTC facility and my grandmother also spent a year in one before she died. The residents often enjoyed sing-alongs using familiar hymns and music from long ago ("Bicycle Built for Two"...

  24. What shift do you work? Why?

    RN-PA replied to duckie's topic in General Nursing

    gpip, I know this is getting off the subject, but I've always wondered why there's such a high turnover rate in ICU nursing. Is it more stressful than the ER or Med-Surg? Or is there some other...

  25. What shift do you work? Why?

    RN-PA replied to duckie's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked all shifts, day shift mostly during orientation, though. When I first started in a hospital on Med-Surg night shift, I thought that was where I'd always be. I liked the "quieter" time, no...