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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    talaxandra replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    No! You could shower for a
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    What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    talaxandra replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Any patients greater than about 50k who think I can move them up the bed on my own. I weight more than husker_rn's 63k but I'm not Super Girl and I only have one back, so no, you have to wait til I...
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    Stupid things said by your non-nurse significant other

    talaxandra replied to Moogie's topic in Nursing Humor

    A friend of mine was sent home from a shift with pneumonia so severe they wanted to admit her and she was getting IM antibiotics BD from her GP. Her husband: I think I have the same thing but without...
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    Student clinicals

    talaxandra replied to JanisM's topic in International Nursing

    The theory is vital, but unless it's paired with practical application and practice it makes no sense and doesn't feel real. One of the advantages of hospital training is that we were given a full...
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    Post grads .....or not?

    talaxandra replied to glam1's topic in International Nursing

    That's not the case for all grad programs, at least in Victoria - some hospitals offer three four-month placements, some two six-month rotations, and at least one encourages twelve months on one ward...
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    Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it

    talaxandra replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    As I've already explained several times, your mother's had a stroke, is semi-conscious, has no gag, and is nil orally. An NG is not only uncomfortable, inserting one is contraindicated this soon after...
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    talaxandra replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

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    Caught stealing drugs

    talaxandra replied to vonxojn's topic in General Nursing

    Lisa - that must have been such a hard decision to make, and for it to turn against
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    Kind of random...

    talaxandra replied to SashaSue's topic in General Nursing

    We often get cards, sometimes mentioning specific nurses by name, which is lovely, but the thank you I will always remember was a letter to the DON from a family member that singled out me and a...
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    Kind of random...

    talaxandra replied to SashaSue's topic in General Nursing

    We often get flowers and chocolate, but lovely though this is I really appreciate it when a patient or family member takes the time to write to the Nurse Unit Manager, Director of Nursing or CEO about...
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    transcript of training question

    talaxandra replied to marc_rn's topic in International Nursing

    My transcript included how many hours I had for each subject and placement, with a description of what was taught. I trained locally, though, and it was a hundred years ago so it may be different -...
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    talaxandra replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    My baby brother once threw up in my eye - gross and really, really painful. But somehow less gross than a patient doing
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    talaxandra replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Eww! I'm fine with contained body fluids (and solids) but I don't want them on me! I can't imagine how you felt, but I'm squirmy just at the thought of
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    "You have two choices: use a bedpan in the bed or let us help you transfer to a commode and we'll wheel you to the toilet. Walking on your newly amputated forefoot is not an option. That's it - pick...
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    I hate studying the ENDOCRINE system!!

    talaxandra replied to sweetmya's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Sorry for the long delay. I'm going to use insulin to demonstrate what I meant about focusing on the hormone first rather than the disease process. The pancreas produces three hormones you need to...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    "You can't have a pain score of twenty, it's a one to ten scale. I get that you have pain, serious pain, the worst pain you've ever had, but ten is 'I've been hit by a truck and nothing could make my...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    "I'm not saying you're wrong, and I might even agree with you on some points, but I'm not going to agree with you when you critisise the nurse who worked the shift before mine. And when you add a...
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    Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it

    talaxandra replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    No worries - if you don't know why it makes a difference then the other members' responses can seem bizarrely hostile, closed or just plain odd :) The pursuit of knowledge isn a good
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    talaxandra replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Here it's "aks" (as in arc-s) and I hate
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    Things You'd Like To Tell Visitors . . . . and get away with it

    talaxandra replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Because it means TrishJK doesn't know what it's actually like doing bedside care and being on the receiving end of the behaviour being vented about. That means that her advice is theoretical rather...
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    talaxandra replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    You can just unsubscribe if you're sick of it. Go to the thread and click "remove update" - it's an option at the head of the top post and will stop you being notified when people post to the
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    Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    talaxandra replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Kissing cousins, even!
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    talaxandra replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Gross, yucky, disgusting, horrifying - I think we have a
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    Flu Vaccine caused the flu of 1918?

    talaxandra replied to Vtachy1's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I have heard a lot of vaccination conspiracy theories but the flu? New to me, at any rate :) I particularly like all the sky/cloud shots on the source web page. If I had the time and money a PhD in...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

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

    I am a little lazy, but I cannot imagine being indolent to the point where I would rather lie in urine than use a pan or go to the toilet. Ick!ETA: Originally I was going to write "my own urine" but...