Lizard101

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1. Where do you nurse?

   Lizard101 replied to beckymcrn's topic in General Nursing

   I teach at a high school and nurse them too! The seniors in Health Occupations I go to the nursing home with...they love it! New recruits!

2. Do you wear a seat belt?

   Lizard101 replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Always use them, last accident 15 years ago I would have gone through the windshield without it on into oncoming traffic! My son always makes sure everyone is buckled up, we don't move without them.

3. obituaries

   Lizard101 replied to shannonRN's topic in General Nursing

   I always read the comics first, then do the crossword (at least I attempt to do it!) Then I read Ann Landers or her sis's column, makes me feel soooooo normal, and like my life is easy!!

4. Where do you work?

   Lizard101 replied to LilgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

   The sites are great & I've bookmarked them for my students to visit next year. I keep telling them to explore outside of our mt. area! Also we have them do research and this will help. I am at a High School as a HOE(health occupations educator)...

5. Squeezing Blood out of a Turnip.....

   Lizard101 replied to CseMgr1's topic in General Nursing

   CseMgr1-you go girl! While loans should be repaid the ends that collection agency's go to is extreme. We got calls in s.fla, turns out they had the wrong person, same name as my husband, it took a call to the senator to get them off!! Then his dad...

6. What rules have you broken to help a patient?

   Lizard101 replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

   20 years ago I had a great evening supervisor and she smuggled a dog in to see an elderly pt, was the best therapy he could get, got better and went home. I also let a family bring in a bird to a little girl who was dying in peds, she was so happy! ...

7. hospice in LTC?

   Lizard101 replied to tinkertoys's topic in Geriatric

   I was a hospice worker and I did have pt's in LTC, it was an extra support for the pt, family and staff, we do not take over care, we give added support. And on a personal note, my sis-in-law has been in a LTC for 14 years, very young onset of 'alzhe...

8. What is the freakiest thing you have ever seen at work?????

   Lizard101 replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

   One high school student I taught showed me an x-ray when I got to the ED to check on her working-thank goodness she was mature! It was a vibrator in a pt's rectum, and she was lol when she said it was still running! And the wife showed up, The staf...

9. Nurses over 50 &/or with health issues affecting work

   Lizard101 replied to Karen4HIM1951's topic in General Nursing

   I am 47 & I have been a Health Occupations teacher for 6 years at the high school level. I love the teens, we go to the nursing home and hospital, I teach them lifting and body mechnaics before we go out, I tell them I hurt my back when in my ea...