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I'm tall and big,years ago,the siderails in the old ICU beds were metal and even in the down position they would end up level with the "JEWELRY DEPT.".during codes,chest compressions were easier for me,due to height and size,but sure enuf,more than a...

Holly,(what an appropriate name right now)thanks for the thread,really enjoyable.Although compare to now,our equipment and therapies appeared antiquated,I felt the patients and families were different as well,we got more respect,but so did everyone,m...

hELLO DUTCHGIRLRN...love the women's health history trip,or is it herstory?Lysol,wow..I don't like it diluted and on the floor,nevr mind anywhere else..the old ads are great,I dabble in antiques and collectibles and have come across many old mags and...

the beers....years ago the our med fridge didn;t lock...talking 20 plus years ago..and part of the narc count was the 2 buds...at the time there was far more men in medical school than women,(I think just the opposite today),anyway,the good ole boys ...

I never quite understood the bile thing...it had just stopped when I got into nursing,I've had older patients tell me about from time to time...ahhhhh..the keys..they always had backups....and as wrong as it was to throw the damn things in the woods....

Didn;t think I was this old....mast trousers,hockey helmets for adult siezure patients,pre-op "nipples to knees' shave for everyone,putting out occasional fires from patients on O2 smoking in bed...making sure all the bedpans were off the patients tr...

We just won a new contract..and our wages and bennies have been fling all over the hopsital,media,mailings to fellow employees etc...I've been hearing lots of "nursebashing" although not to my face..6'2 300lbs..years ago...I would have talked to them...

....drinking from a glass problem......she can never get enuf fluids...and to think they used to call her "IV" in nursing school because she was always scratching underneath her.....

Hi,just had my 3rd OR procedure where propofol was used for a pre-op prep,all peripheral,who the heck's gonna place a central line for one of the most popular pre-op meds used today?....had a bunch of dental work done...oral surgery....propofol....wo...

hEY KID,i'M ON DAY 6 AFTER L2-3 DISCECTOMY...MICRO SURGERY...R leg felt like the hip was bad,knee,and half of foot numb...hip ached all nite and day...neurosurgeon do the work...excellant reputation does them like muffles at meineke....so a week tomo...

I believe one of the major reason to aspirate is to ensure you are not into a major/minor vessle,thus making the injection an IV push injection...IVP insulin can be serious...the belly,back or the arms,flank are pretty safe for this reason,plus the i...

Hi,I'm an RN with ADHD,even have the initials ADHD,next to my name after RN, on a custum name badge I have...anyway..already forgot most of you questions,so I'll just give youa bunch of info and u can pick it out I make $49.86 an hour...will ratify n...

HI,there are new federal guidleines out on glycemic control...they are designed for the general patient population and not diagnosis specific...we know the potassium is important with cardiac patients and insulin eats K+ so keep an eye on that....

I work in Mass.,the feds have been getting pretty strict on giving K+,and our hospital has been quite good at following the rules...the max I have ever been able to give peripherally is a mix of 40meq of k+ in a liter of D51/2 ns or some derivative ...

These quotes and one liners are killing me..recovering from back surgery...just 4 days ago..the darvon bottle is getting lighter...but the laughing at all these nutty one liners is great..what a bunch!!!

there's a male nursing forum? I just thought we got thru saying we were all ONE....I spent 8 years in the Navy..lived with 3,000 guys....I like homogeny( is that a word or type of milk?)i like the mix up...

Ok I can't shut up...I've taken care of several transgender(trying to be nice,just don;t know the proper term)patients and most were trauma patients and at the time they didn;t know who was taking care of them...a couple were transplant patients(int...

I''m a big hairy male sob...and a damn good nurse...I want the patient comfortable..inside and out..so when i walk into an 83 or 33 year old female pts room and see "that" look on their face,I am more than comfortable asking any one of the female RNs...

Congrats,now you can sleep easy(pun intended)...... :cheers:

the amount of time the drawer was open will show up on the pyxsis..so if someone came in behind you and u didn;t sign out,they cud have taken the pills...but if you can prove you were away from the pyxsis while the draw was stil open...it could help....

I bet u it's drugs.no matter what the emplyee's salary is,,as we know our druggie friends usually start picking up more hours..always volunteer for ot...take patients in the back of the unit etc...we've had 3 incidents in the last 3 years..all stoppe...

I grew up in the 50's and 60's,wanted to be a cop or "armyman" only sissies boys became nurses...i had aunts and grandmothers that told great stories of the folks they took care of,my grandmother and a den mother both worked on people from thr coconu...

Hang in there kid,it gets better,takes a while...my first every patient in my nursing career was 2 hours dead when my shift started...the offgoing nurse tried to say he was alive at the end of her shift..but i called a code as soon as i found him(10 ...

Go for the circ. I speak as a man,nurse,father,Navy vet....do it now,when I was in nursing school many years ago,the urologists would always ask for me to help them with the old guys who now needed circs..this was in the 80's and these guys were in ...