FranEMTnurse CNA, LPN, EMT-I

LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor.

I have always loved to help people feel better, and is why I became an EMT and an LPN in 1997

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    Absolute No-No's

    FranEMTnurse replied to Drysolong's topic in General Nursing

    Heh, You should be around here where I live. The administrator was so eager to leave here she chose the quietest person she could find, then she told her everything except how to train the staff....
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    Art of Nursing

    FranEMTnurse replied to NurseKymba's topic in General Nursing

    Wonderful message NMSANE. It equals a Florence Nightengale
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    FranEMTnurse replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    It did. It also burned other things going down. I was just a curious kid then, and thought I was going to take a taste of
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    For the Old Folks, and the Elderly Minded

    FranEMTnurse posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    You know your memory has started to go when...... You have de'j'a vu about events that happened five minutes ago. You start enjoying TV repeats. You keep meeting interesting new people in your own...
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    FranEMTnurse replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Never drink turpentine. It will make you feel very hot all over, and you will do the dance of your life. When your mother gives you a tablespoon of sugar to dilute it, it will taste like turpentine...
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    Patients that Have Surprised you

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you sweetums. But when I started this thread, I only used myself as an example to get the rest of you nurses to think about any patient/s you have had that has/have amazed you. I know there must...
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    Patients that Have Surprised you

    FranEMTnurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have been told that I'm a woman with nine lives. I believe that God definitely has a special mission for me, and He isn't done with me yet. Why? Because: 1. I was born in 1943 weighing only 3 lbs...
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    FranEMTnurse replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    :lol2::lol2:That's a good
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    I was a ______ prior to being a nurse/student nurse

    FranEMTnurse replied to nurz2be's topic in General Nursing

    Worked in hayfield....the hard way. Drove a team of horses and raked the hay into row, then balanced it on the wagon with a hay fork to keep it there. A baby sitter Worked on a public field giving...
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    Absolute No-No's

    FranEMTnurse replied to Drysolong's topic in General Nursing

    When I was in training, I asked one of the staff what they do if they get behind in their work, and the staff member told me they just leave the resident in
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    Funny OB things people say

    FranEMTnurse replied to at your cervix's topic in Ob/Gyn

    :lol2::lol2:I'll bet some of them would have freaked
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    Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    yes they do indeed. Now I'll tell you what I told my new doc when I first met him.I said, "As one professional to another, (I think that part fell on deaf ears as I was only thinking about the ten...
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    Funny OB things people say

    FranEMTnurse replied to at your cervix's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Again, wow.:rotfl: Hmmm, I've been around 64 years and I didn't know that. Guess ya can learn something new no matter how old you get. Anyway, I wonder if she had a fistula, and got preggy that
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    FranEMTnurse replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Originally Posted by Dayray I was a new CNA in the nursing home and feeling very proud of my first step in my chosen career. A nice littel old man in a wheel chair waved at one of my co-workers (a...
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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    FranEMTnurse replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Ya know, I really wonder if there really is a place under that
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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    FranEMTnurse replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I saw an interview on the Oprah show not so long ago with the real Ghost Whisperer, the person who's life experiences with the spirit world has and does happen. This has totally convinced me that this...
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    Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    FranEMTnurse replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Thank you Karen. I needed to read this
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    Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    FranEMTnurse replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Cookie, you have a definite arguement here. I wasn't yet placed on lasix until after I saw a nurse pour black uring in my graduate. It was then I knew my kidneys were failing, and my bladder began to...
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    Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    FranEMTnurse replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    since i have pulmonary and heart disease, i'm constantly struggling with breathing issues, i want to die without struggling; meaning knocked
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    Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    FranEMTnurse replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Never fight for your husband to get pain meds. He just may be a former drug addict. Never drink a bottle of wine, and then take a lot of sleeping pills you just found so you could feel higher. We...
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    Funny Things Naieve Medical Personnel Have Said

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    :uhoh3:Oh how I remember my orientee. I was her patient. I came home and went on
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    Funny Things Naieve Medical Personnel Have Said

    FranEMTnurse posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    i have a 36 yo very naieve sister, who is a cna. she loves what she does; er mostly. she told me once. quote: ya know, i'm a virgin and shouldn't have to wash those men's private parts. she has...
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    Any Nurses with COPD and Heart Problems?

    FranEMTnurse replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I tip my hat to you my friend. Excellent. I'm on oxygen 24/7 so do what I can. I'm unable to tolerate heat of any kind anymore. It makes me feel like I'm smothering. So I do go out in the winter. In...
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    Stuttering?

    FranEMTnurse replied to pgray1229's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Excellent post. I too stuttered due to fear when I was a child. I was diagnosed with low mentation too, when I knew better. This is why with my other disabilities, I was told I would never be able to...
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    Happily Addicted to allnurses.com

    FranEMTnurse replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    I be Daffy Duck, because no matter how many times he gets lambasted, he gets up, shakes himself off, and goes on. (My