SmBaxter

The absolute BEST aspect of working nocs....NO SUITS!! I love my coworkers, and we work really well together. Teamwork, autonomy, and the Shift Diff...these are the best...

I'm a B&B nut...they know me by name and FAV products! ( They probably know my credit card number by heart, too.) I also go fabric shopping! This coming Nov is a real treat...going on a Caribbean Cruise with my Mom...no kids, husband, patients, d...

Live, love,laugh and work in Southern New Hampshire!

Hey Karen -did you mention that you wore your code scrubs on the tele unit????

oops hit wrong button! failure from the ms with rr of FOUR! Needless to say, my patient ended up in the ICU on a Narcan gtt for well over twenty-four hours! I scoff no more!

In our hospital, if you are working on the Tele Unit, and are wearing purple scrubs, one of your patients is going to go "south". I thought it was bull until one night I floated down there, while wearing my purple scrubs, and had a pt on a ms pca go ...

Thisnurse! You are a saint ( Saint Thisnurse!) I would have handed him the washclothes and towels and said " Have fun cleaning it up! I don't have time for this shyt!" AND, I would have called the admitting with EVERY bowel movement and antic!

My personal favorite bad dx is CHANGE IN MENTAL STATUS...then they always turn out to be a&ox3-just really weird!

Hey Sleepqd-LOL!!

I have only heard Death Rattle, Cheyne-stokes breathing or agonal breathing. Suction, please or sc scopolomine! Unfortunately, I've heard a lot of that! I work Oncology/ Palliative/Med-Surg.

What wakes me up...Until I learned to shut off the phone..telemarketers! Lawn Mowers! Airplanes ( I live near an airport!) Used to it now, incidently! My children ( I have five.) Light ( Thank God for room darkening shades!) My capricious, not too sp...

I've SEEN a foley to wall suction! The strangest order I've received from a Dr. was about a pt on tube feedings with a kangaroo pump...pt was not tolerating the feedings with outrageous residuals, and vomiting copious amounts...the doctor on call ord...

Weirdest thing I have seen so far in two years of practice has been a patient with a foley to wall suction...I thought it was a joke when I saw it on the Kardex!

Hey Betts! Good luck with this...it's criminal that destruction of property takes precedence over a patient's life! Waiting for a code to call 911? Calling the facility down the street for supplies that are already on the premesis? Not being able to ...

I find that sleeping a couple of hours in the AM when I get home, and then getting 3 or 4 hours right before I go in helps a lot. Believe me, you will be so excited the first night, you will have no problems staying awake! Eat healthy foods ( trite b...

LOL!....We had a patient named Harold Bolls...yep, you guessed it..." Harry". No need to say more.

You are not alone! I work on an Oncology/ Med-Surg/ Palliative Care Unit...we always look for patients from our floor. We have a bulletin board on which we post obits...sadly, this very morning, we posted two obits of two well known patients of ours....

That's so strange! I never heard of such a thing...as a relatively new grad ( two years out), I had hospitals calling me on the phone to come work for them ( I don't even know how they got my number!)... Good luck with your interview...I would not ev...

What an ignorant, arrogant jerk! Must be an MD. Reading that crap gave me a headache as this fool obviously hasn't got a clue about spelling, grammar, usage, etc. I would love to give this idiot an IM in his sciatic nerve, as he's got on mine!

I hear the same load of nonsense! I have worked nights on an oncology/med-surg unit for two years. We go straight out all night and, as you know, sometimes spend very little time with our patients, as we are understaffed, and we are also pulled from ...