aboucherrn

aboucherrn

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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...

  16. Patient requests

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

    "Can you run over to CVS and buy me some razors on your lunch

  17. Dear God, Help me

    aboucherrn replied to artsmom's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I love this thread. You guys are cracking me up. I am a med-surg RN and absolutely ADORE the elderly dementia patients. The amuse me, and I have infinite patience for them because I know they...

  18. If you could do it over again, would you still have gone into nursing?

    aboucherrn replied to jay65's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Thank you for your post. I am going on 14 years as a medical-surgical/progressive RN, and the older I get the more anxious, depressed, and cynical I get about the job. I have floated and explored...

  19. MD screaming at RN's in front of patients regularly

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

    Many facilities have a physician reporting system. She has a boss, too... there is no reason she should be treating ANYONE like

  20. White Board Credentials

    aboucherrn replied to jadelpn's topic in General Nursing

    I think this would really confuse the patients. Sometimes it's hard enough to keep track of RN, CNA, RT, PT, MD. No need to add more alphabet soup to the

  21. Night shifters - ever experience this?

    aboucherrn replied to beeker's topic in General Nursing

    When I try to switch back and forth I get 'crazy'. Sleep is my #1 priority. Fortunately, my husband is a writer and a natural night shifter, so we live on night shift. I sleep 8 hours during the...

  22. 5 things you wish you knew as a new nurse

    aboucherrn replied to Bugs20091's topic in First Year After Licensure

    No one sits 'til everyone

  23. 5 things you wish you knew as a new nurse

    aboucherrn replied to Bugs20091's topic in First Year After Licensure

    1. It is about the patient, not you, your life, your schedule, your stress level. While you are at work, you are there to care for the patient, no matter who they are, what they did, or why they are...

  24. Medical vs Surgical Nursing

    aboucherrn replied to misscherie's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I am a medical-surgical nurse who is more comfortable with medical patients. I enjoy surgical patients for the reasons the other posters listed (I can't tell you a lot about ortho, though). I have a...

  25. NOC shift and calling the MD

    aboucherrn replied to LindseyB.rn's topic in Cardiac

    If you think you should call, it probably means you should....You are there for your patients... NO ONE wants to be woken up in the middle of the night but that is the price they pay for being the MD...