herecomestrouble

herecomestrouble

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  1. Please help my failing memory

    herecomestrouble posted a topic in General Nursing

    The other day I overheard someone talking and she was saying that when she laid down in bed her B/P would go up real high, when she stood or sat it would go down again. It reminded me of a patient I...

  2. Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    herecomestrouble replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    I once had a pt with a J tube that was always clogged on me, usually resulting in a spray of water. One evening I went in to give him meds and he and his son both opened up those little cocktail...

  3. Funny Things Patients Say

    herecomestrouble replied to PMFB-RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'd need a lake full of whiskey too if I had to live in a LTC

  4. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    herecomestrouble replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Not a nursing but a patient story, I had been in the hospital 5 months 3 months in ICU, when my Dad died. After I got out I was at my parent's house sitting in the living room all alone when I saw my...

  5. Funny Things Patients Say

    herecomestrouble replied to PMFB-RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I was helping another nurse pull a pt. up in bed. We must have had our Wheaties that morning because we bumped her head against the headboard, we both looked at each other feeling awful and the pt....

  6. What constitutes "professional appearance" these days?

    herecomestrouble replied to moma8gma1's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    that site was awful,a fount of lies and half truths,I especially got upset with this pearl of wisdom " And not only that, many of the customers receiving a tattoo are drug-users, criminals, rock...

  7. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    herecomestrouble replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    not ghosts at work but my oldest son was taking a picture of his girlfriend and her daughter and on the first pic there was a funny mark right next to them so he took another shot,same mark only...

  8. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    herecomestrouble replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Probably a Photoshop picture, but still cool. What was it? I couldn't make it out,damn old eyes

  9. Post-exposure prophylaxis making me so sick!

    herecomestrouble replied to dancin1415's topic in General Nursing

    I'm HIV+ and have been taking Kaletra for years now.It's notorious for causing diarrhea.Most important,avoid all caffeine,coffee,tea,soda even chocolate.Try some immodium if it's OK with your Dr.I...

  10. pt pass out after IM ceftriaxone inj

    herecomestrouble replied to yat777's topic in General Nursing

    My Dad and both brothers will do the same thing at the sight of blood.My older brother will manage to keep it together until he gets the person to the hospital ER if he has to but then...I swear you...

  11. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    herecomestrouble replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Not "going away",it was a coming home

  12. New Grad in ER with unsafe practice - Advice please?

    herecomestrouble replied to R!XTER's topic in Emergency

    There are 10-15 hospitals withing a 25 mile radius of me,and no matter which one you mention somebody has a story about what a horrible place it is,how the Dr's and nurses don't have a clue what...

  13. Never seen anything quite like it (the things visitors do...)

    herecomestrouble replied to NurseKatie08's topic in General Nursing

    This wasn't actually the visitor but the nursing staff who did this one.We had a pt who had a stroke,she was starting to come around and we were trying to get her to remember our names and the names...

  14. Never seen anything quite like it (the things visitors do...)

    herecomestrouble replied to NurseKatie08's topic in General Nursing

    Where to start,one time we had a Dr overhead page"will the family of the pt in room 123 bed A come to the room IMMEDIATELY".She had walked in the room to check her pt and found her asleep with an...

  15. question for those of you who take melatonin

    herecomestrouble replied to Charlotte205's topic in General Nursing

    slightly off topic but I found a drink recently called "Drank",it's supposed to be relaxing.I thought it was the soda version of chamomile tea.I shared a can with my grandson,he went to bed shortly...

  16. Crazy Family Members and their input.

    herecomestrouble replied to eriksoln's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I loved it,the poor guy,bit of a ko-ko bird

  17. What is your first hint that it is gonna be a rough shift

    herecomestrouble replied to AngelsWings09's topic in General Nursing

    OK I feel your pain,but that really made me

  18. Telling a Client they have HIV

    herecomestrouble replied to BSN317's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure this must be hard for you too,even with your training the first time will be stressful to you.My advice would be to have some support services in the wings for your client,at least a list of...

  19. Pica

    herecomestrouble replied to KnarfKS's topic in Nursing Humor

    I worked with a CNA who would eat Kleenex,you'd be standing at the nurses desk talking to her and she would pluck a tissue out of the box and shove it in her

  20. A question about danish , paper, and germs...

    herecomestrouble replied to aKyRN81's topic in General Nursing

    it's not so much the actual germs it's the thought that got to

  21. A question about danish , paper, and germs...

    herecomestrouble replied to aKyRN81's topic in General Nursing

    great,thanks so now I'll be baking all my own cookies,cakes and danish and after the other comment about restaraunts I'll be cooking all my meals at home

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

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

    "To the teenager in labor who says" I don't want to do this anymore"- Well, why didn't you think of that 9 months ago- just how did you think the baby was going to get out?" actually I remember...

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

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

    "No I don't know why the Dr didn't order that little blue pill you always took at home.Sure I'll get right on the phone now and ask him to order it for you,and it's the little blue pill,you took it...

  24. Hanging up my stethescope

    herecomestrouble replied to sissiesmama's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Anne,I'm so sorry to hear of your health problems.I can relate to the feelings you're going through.At one time in my life I spent 6 months in the hospital and another year sitting home trying to...

  25. Grammar errors at the workplace, just for fun :)

    herecomestrouble replied to mama_d's topic in General Nursing

    read a note the other day where the pt's step daughter-in-law was referred to as STD as in"pt's STD requests...",must be a pretty tough infection if it's making