Ms Kylee

Ms Kylee

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  1. Is there anything that you cannot handle as a Nurse?

    Ms Kylee replied to cammy429's topic in General Nursing

    POOP... ugh! Especially when they have C-Diff. But, I keep telling myself I will get used to it.... Especially when I'm busy wiping and cleaning someone's

  2. Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    Ms Kylee replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Just once I'd love to say Get off the call bell for 10 minutes will you? You can do more than you're showing me, and you've alienated everyone that works this floor because you're impossible to...

  3. Preventing Pt Falls and success rate

    Ms Kylee replied to Advocate1's topic in General Nursing

    We use bed alarms, and all patients who are a fall risk wear red slippers that have treads on both sides of the slippers. We also make sure that when they want to get out of bed, there is someone...

  4. True Christmas miracle

    Ms Kylee replied to shearernurse's topic in General Nursing

    Awwwww.... I love babies! I just finished up my L&D rotation on Wed. Got to see a C-section too. Thanks for

  5. Nurses not responding fast enough-VENT

    Ms Kylee replied to pirap's topic in General Nursing

    Yep, I canoodle in the linen closet a lot. I sit on my butt and eat bon bons too. No TV at the nurse's station, so I have to listen to the radio spitting out never ending and nauseating Christmas...

  6. What Patients do to make you mad!

    Ms Kylee replied to MichaelFloridaRN's topic in General Nursing

    *hugs Leslie* You're

  7. What Patients do to make you mad!

    Ms Kylee replied to MichaelFloridaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Bum frosters: The patients who are perfectly capable of washing up themselves but insist the nurses do it because it's expected. Patients who have nothing better to do but sit on the call bell for...

  8. Some parents amaze me

    Ms Kylee replied to teeituptom's topic in General Nursing

    After reading this thread I am so glad I realized at a young age (ok, I was 19.. *LOL*) that I could never be a good parent and I was not parent material, so I didn't have kids. I've never regretted...

  9. Some parents amaze me

    Ms Kylee replied to teeituptom's topic in General Nursing

    I was in Wal Mart picking up a very heavy DVD/VCR wall shelf to put in my cart. I was just getting it into the cart when I felt another cart bump my rear end. Hard. Ditz driving apologized and said "I...

  10. Some parents amaze me

    Ms Kylee replied to teeituptom's topic in General Nursing

    Stupid people shouldn't breathe... or breed...

  11. Disrespectful Nurse aids

    Ms Kylee replied to holdensjane's topic in General Nursing

    I will help anyone who asks me. Unfortunately, I'm the one who gets the worst assignment of all of the aides (15/17 completes, routinely. You know, the ones that take work and I can't bathe in 5...

  12. Not enough attention to BMs in nursing today!

    Ms Kylee replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yinz guys are

  13. Not enough attention to BMs in nursing today!

    Ms Kylee replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    :lol2: I am soooooooooooooooo guilty of doing

  14. Not enough attention to BMs in nursing today!

    Ms Kylee replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Lord... Last night I swear I was the Sergeant of Poop Patrol... Everyone and I mean Everyone was pooping... and some more than once. One suppository was ordered for one patient, and he pooped before...

  15. Not enough attention to BMs in nursing today!

    Ms Kylee replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Gotta love my patients... if they haven't had a BM for 2 days, they ask for MOM or a Colace. 99% of my patients are bowel

  16. first name last name issue and drama

    Ms Kylee replied to The Bell Jar's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I am weird... I use room numbers. When I'm in the room I address them as Mr. Smith, Mrs. Jones, etc. (whatever their last name is). In addition, I call them Sir and Ma'am. The older...

  17. First code O_O

    Ms Kylee replied to SaraO'Hara's topic in General Nursing

    I've had 4 codes on my floor while I was working (and I just started 6 months ago). Luckily, all survived. Supposedly, my floor is the cancer floor, but we get everything. When a code is called I...

  18. holidays=need to turn off my phone

    Ms Kylee replied to acerila's topic in General Nursing

    I don't answer.. I let them leave a voice mail and then I decide if I'll call them back or not. Once they called me off for low census, and 2 hours later they called me back asking me to come in...

  19. Nursing and Chronic Back Pain?

    Ms Kylee replied to caringkat's topic in General Nursing

    Chiropractor..... I had a wonderful one after I got hit from behind while waiting in a long line of cars back in 1993. I was back to normal in 4 months, and have not had any issues since... my knee,...

  20. Got the Job!

    Ms Kylee posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I got a call yesterday-- I got the job as a hospice aide. I start on Monday, and I'm nervous as all get

  21. Got the Job!

    Ms Kylee replied to Ms Kylee's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Well, I can't start on Monday... DRATS! I went to talk to my boss about staying on at the hospital as casual... he said I could.. but I had to work out the rest of the schedule which runs thru Jan....

  22. Disrespectful Nurse aids

    Ms Kylee replied to holdensjane's topic in General Nursing

    We're not all like this... some of us take things seriously. I am lucky that I have nurses that come and check urine and stool if I say something just doesn't look right, can you check it? And I...

  23. Another one bites the dust......Nurse Kevorkian strikes again!

    Ms Kylee replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, Tazzi, I'm so sorry. *Hugs tight* It's hard, I know. I had 2 in hospice just last week. They both died on Sunday after I left for the night. You truly are an angel to your

  24. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    Ms Kylee replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    My Grandmother worked Med Surg on the same unit for 40 odd years. She shared a lot of funny stories with me both about patients and while she was a student nurse and the things that went on in the...

  25. EEK! There's a woman in my room!

    Ms Kylee replied to 58flyer's topic in General Nursing

    I was not taught that particular procedure in nursing school. I did have a teenage male patient once that did not want me to change his brief. I said ok, and went to get the male LPN. I knew he was...