aboucherrn

aboucherrn has 17 years experience and specializes in Medical-Surgical / Palliative/ Hospice.

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1. strangest question a friend or acquaintance has ever asked you?

   aboucherrn replied to AQEELSMOM's topic in General Students

   I was in my very first semester of nursing school, and went to a family picnic with a guy I had just started dating. One of his relatives asked me to pull the loose tooth out of her screaming 4-year...

2. The dumbest thing you've ever heard...

   aboucherrn replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I had a patient tell me he was allergic to suppositories because they gave him diarrhea. We REALLY need to be educating these people on the difference between a true allergy, an adverse side effect,...

3. HELP! Masking the smell of feces!

   aboucherrn replied to WhitneyRene's topic in General Students

   I put Carmex in my nose during my entire first year of hospital nursing... ha ha. It really does get

4. Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

   aboucherrn replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   I was in charge one night and got a page for an incoming patient with "Shortness of Breast". Ha ha ha. I also had to correct a HUC who entered an order for "Due Battle May Citrate" instead of "One...

5. Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

   aboucherrn replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   You guys are cracking me up with your quotes... I don't think I have read one about "OldsTimers" disease (Alzheimers). I worked with a nurse once who pronounced it like that. A little piece of my...

6. Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

   aboucherrn replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   That's actually very logical...

7. Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

   aboucherrn replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   Vegetable surgery....That is

8. Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

   aboucherrn replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

   I admitted a patient last week who said that the pain medication "Millonick" worked for her in the past. It took me a while, but I was able to figure out that she was talking about Dilaudid. I also...

9. Change of Life

   aboucherrn replied to kbdavis's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   What about the federal government? They have a huge need for AP nurses for the Indian Health service. There are many remote places you could go that would fit what you described. Good luck, and...

10. Getting older...feeling forced out

    aboucherrn replied to KYMDSRN's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Ditto... I have a BSN, yet I feel exactly like you. I give 100% at work, but canʻt seem to keep up with the charting, the constant changes, and management down my throat to "do a little better"....

11. Transport in the hospital.

    aboucherrn replied to OCRN3's topic in General Nursing

    I feel your pain!! And I think itʻs only going to get worse. Transport is gone... whatʻs next? Housekeeping? Weʻll have to clean and sanitize the rooms before the next admission. And then...

12. History of Bipolar Disorder, can I do this?

    aboucherrn replied to got2bnc's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Much like the two previous posters, I am a longtime nurse with a longtime history of bipolar disorder and anxiety. Some days I wonder how I have made it this far as a nurse. I work nights for the...

13. Help....I Can't Take it Anymore! - Nurses Coping with Stress

    aboucherrn replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I have been a floor nurse for nearly fifteen years. It seems like the profession has turned from a mutual respect relationship between nurses and patients, to a demanding,...

14. The Worst Hospital Visitor I've Ever Seen

    aboucherrn replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The family members who would come in to visit the trached and vented patient and turn off their oxygen and suction so the patient would desat and they could try to sue us for negligence. Thank god...

15. Is 7 the new 5?

    aboucherrn replied to Capco56's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I have been a med-surg nurse for almost fourteen years. I have done a lot of traveling and worked in different facilities and states... every place is different. Most places like to think they staff...